To: Rambi who wrote (6701 ) 1/30/1998 12:42:00 AM From: Gauguin Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Penni, can I be "smarty pants" s'more? I'm going to try this completely from memory: Mescal and mescaline ~ Mescaline is derived from a little "buddy" cactus, Lophophora williamsii , which grows in some smaller areas of our Southwest on down into Mexico. It's the Native American Church's peyote. [For some insane reason, illegal for traditional church members in Oregon, thanks to an attorney general with $250,000.00 and time on his hands to worry about a few remote ceremonies.] Mescaline is an expensive, fairly rare, extract or derivative (or ask Alex). Or maybe, yah, no, ~ it's the synthesized psychoactive. Hey, this is pretty darn advanced techno-stuff, but I think that means you can start with no cacti and still get the goodies in the lab. This product opened Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception , but hey, we all knew that already. (Real pants can tell you what Chrome Yellow was about.)Agave ifogetthesecondpartii . It's mildly alcoholic, but they distill the same plant into tequila for us choosies. I think. Could be a different plant. Or drink.real smarty-pants comes along.Agave attenuata has stripes down the edges of the leaves. There. That makes up for not knowing the other one. Lots of agaves to remember, ya know.
