Dry and grind the top of the cactus and add 50 g to 250 ml methanol and let soak one

day. Filter and add 100 ml 1N HCl to the wet powder and let stand about two hours. Meanwhile, evaporate in vacuum the methanol. Filter the HCl solution unti l clear and add to the residue remaining from the methanol. Make pH about 7 with 2N KOH and add 100 ml CHCl3. Shake in separatory funnel and separate the bottom CHCl3 layer. Add 40 ml water to the CHCl3 and shake in separatory funnel. Dry a nd evaporate in vacuum the CHCl3 layer to get the mescaline (and other compounds ). The most detailed directions for cactus extraction are contained in PSYCHEDELIC GUIDE TO THE PREPARATION OF THE EUCHARIST by R. Brown, obtainable for $5.50 from L.S.l. Co., PO Box 4374, Austin, TX 78765. Another source pressure cooked the peyote in acidic water 15 minutes at 15 lbs. and poured off the liquid. This process was repeated 5 more times and the combin ed water extracts evaporated slowly to a tar which is cooled until able to be fo rmed into small pills. The pills are dipped in Salol (phenyl salicylate), which has been liquefied by heating, and allowed to dry. This forms an enteric coating which is said to allow ingestion without nausea. Others merely put the tar in g elatin capsules. Either way the nausea of whole peyote is greatly diminished. Th ree or four tabs are supposed to have the impact of 15-20 buttons. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ This is recommended to anyone who wants to smuggle or otherwise conceal grass or hash. One hundred kilos of grass will convert to about two or three kilos of re sin, which can later be redissolved and absorbed on alfalfa, etc. See Lloydia 33 ,453(1970) for a method of large scale extraction. Cover grass or hash with meth anol, benzene, petroleum ether, or isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol. Allow to soak fo r about twelve hours, filter and repeat soaking with fresh solvent. This process can be speeded up by gently heating the solvent plus grass (no flames) for abou t three hours, adding more solvent if necessary. Evaporate the combined solvent extracts until a resin is obtained or until syrupy and absorb the syrup on grass , etc. Repeat the process until no more resin is obtained, or until smoking some of the residual grass indicates that all the THC has been extracted. Methylene chloride works very well. Unleaded gas, preferably without additives (white gas) , paint thinner or remover, or turpentine should be satisfactory. For a detailed discussion, see MARIJUANA POTENCY, And/Or Press (1977). @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ The original extraction of Salvinorin A from salvia divinorum leaves - partition ing of a crude extract between acetone and hexane - has been greatly developed/e nhanced. This is an extraction procedure from Gartz' book 'Salvia divinorum - Die Wahrsag esalbei' (2001): 10 g of dried and pulverized leaves are stirred for 3 h with 220 mL diethyl ethe r, and after filtration the plant material is washed twice with 50 mL of the sam e solvent. These extracts are united and the solvent evaporated. You will get 25 0 - 300 mg of a 10% preparation with a greenish colour [ie. wax/tar]. The greeni sh mass is stirred with 15 mL of petroleum ether (bp 50 - 60C) for 24 h. After fi ltration and washing with 5 mL petroleum ether, the residue is dried and the sol vent disgarded. The residue is now solved in 3 mL absolute ethanol by shortly he ating in the waterbath to 60 C. After cooling down to 30 C, 1 mL of acetone is add ed and all is cooled down to 0 C. After 12h at 0 C filter off and dry. A second an alogue precipitation from alcohol with acetone leads to a pure compound with a m elting point of 240 C. Yield: about 20 mg (0.2%) Although vastly improved over the original, this procedure is still lacking, and not too efficient. Below is a method developed by amateur chemists working toge ther over the internet. This method was initially kept semi-secret, for fears th

at Salvia would become prohibited. As this now seems to be inevitable in all 'ci vilised' countries, I see no reason not to distribute this procedure for use in the WoDaRE (War On Drugs And Religious Experience): Experimental 100 g whole dried leaves are put into a 5 L bottle and left in a fridge for 6 h. At the same time, two bottles each containing 1 L food-grade anhydrous acetone are chilled to a temp. of -6 C in a freezer. The bottle of leaves is removed fro m the fridge and immediately one of the portions of chilled acetone is added. Th e bottle is capped and vigorously shaken for 150 s. The solvent is then decanted and filtered. The second bottle of chilled acetone is removed from the freezer and its contents added to the bottle of leaves. The vigorous shaking is repeated for another 120 s; the solvent is then decanted, filtered, and combined with th e first extraction to give just under 2 L of a clear pale green liquid. The solv ent is removed by distillation (can be recycled) to give 290 mg of green (traces of chlorophyll) crystals. Recrystallisation from a small volume of boiling IPA gives 260 mg beautiful white xtals. Notes Obviously, the yield of Salvinorin will depend on the potency of the leaf used f or extraction. Leaves that are brown seem to contain the same concentration of Salvinorin as gr een leaves, but do not contain chlorophyll which is readily soluble in acetone a nd causes the green colouration of the crystals. Fresh leaves can be made into b rown leaves by freezing, thawing, and leaving to dry in a warm place. I have noticed that if after the first acetone extraction, the leaves are left f or any length of time, tars and chlorophylls, etc. are extracted from the plant cells by the residual acetone, and are instantly dissolved by the solvent of the second extraction resulting in a waxy non-crystalline product (albeit much less waxy than simple methanol extraction). Therefore the second volume of acetone s hould be added as soon as the first has been decanted. The solution should be ASAP after extraction; Salvinorin A will decompose if lef t in solution in acetone and only waxy extracts will be produced if the solution is left to stand for more than a day or so. It seems that there is always a deposition of a minute amount of a brown-white s ubstance (fats? tannins? conglomerated leaf particles?) in the distillation flas k after distillation. This substance seems to precipitate out as the solvent is distilled, and after distillation it is not soluble in acetone, unlike Salvinori n A, which is. Recrystallisation is not really necessary; the greenish crystals are of sufficie nt purity to make them easily suitable for making standardised extracts or for v aporization. Some of the extracted leaf can be further extracted with methanol to remove all chlorophyll, tars, etc. and dried to give a very 'clean' extract. The times for shaking the solvent with the leaves are the ones I have found to b e most effective. They are not fixed; experiment is king. Acetonitrile is also an interesting solvent. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@