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		san pedro powder 
		I was wondering this.  If you can powder a cactus, put the powder into gelcaps, swallow them and get a trip, could you just put the powder in water and drink it?  Or even just eat the powder?  I don't understand why all these complex boiling procedures are necessary.  Does it have something to do with the heat that I don't know? 
 
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		san pedro powder 
		I don't think it has anything to do with heat, beyond getting the mescaline to dissolve. It's probably not real water soluble as the freebase, which is what any chemical found in a plant will usually be. Yea, you could just eat the cactus, but that's alot of cactus. Probably an acid/base would give you pretty pure mescaline, I don't remember the details, but I've seen one on the net. Let me do a little looking... 
 
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		san pedro powder 
		Well I just jammed it into 30 pills and swallowed em, so that works.  Or it's starting to, anyway...