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new issue of GQ has a cover article on Salvia.  Lot of interesting story but unfortunately written by an alcoholic asshole who has no respect for the plants, the indigenous people or what he is really doing.  The article is a pretty good covert advert for banning the herb;  although to be fair he does state that there is absolutely no evidence of any danger except for fabricated lies by panic stricken bureaucrats.  The author seems to be an imbalanced substance abuser.

experiment update:  my friend took his tar ball from the Everclear/vodka extract and triple extracted from that w/ 99% IPA from the local Safeway.  Got brown oil!  Been over 10 days and never dried out!  I tend to trust the info he got from "Delysid" at ayahuasca.com so maybe something about LSA really needs methanol for a good extraction???  The IPA sure was a bust.

My friend being a vomit paranoid type (having plenty harsh aya experiences) decided to try a further experiment.  He is going to get some 99% IPA as it is much cheaper than Everclear, and redisolve his tary balls in it oops I meant ball what was I thinking.  Then let it stand for a couple days and c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y decant the clear part, assuming the water soluable only parts will settle.   Then evap that to bone dry and see what's left.  He has over a gram of tar at this point so if he gets even 25% of that he's got enough for several titrated experiments on his housepets.

Sounds like IPA better than everclear if 99% is available as the Everclear is only about 95% I think and pretty expensive.  Though the idea of ticncture storage in the freezer is interesting (ethanol only!)

I think if they search around erowid they'd find I believe the medium sized dose of LSA is 50mills.

Thank you.  Great info.  Assuming you mean 50 mills of the tinct.?

Friend of a friend has a tec he got off internet wherein multiple washes of ground seeds with Naptha supposedly removes the nausea factor.  Then extracting in methanol leads to golden yellow crystals (when evaped) that were very active and pleasant at 75 mg dose.

So my friend's friend did this wash/extraction tec but since he doen't have access to cheap methanol he used Everclear (ethanol w/ a few % water) and then ran out of that and finished a couple of pulls w/ vodka (ethanol + water).  Now he has a slightly sticky tar that is more of a dark reddish goldish brownish color.  Approx 8 gm seeds yielded 1150 mg tar.  Question is, is the difference in his color and texture due to differences in what is extracted by ethanol vs methanol?  If so, anyone hazard a guess if he got more or less goods?  More or less bads?  Supposedly the Naptha removes the yucks?  Anybody got any ideas?  He asked me to post this to the forum as he is computerless and anonymous.  But he thanks you in advance...