Originally Posted by bedrockbob
Why the heck would I care about prickly pears? Cactus clone easily and there are plenty, I have burned the thorns off the things with a propane burner to get the cattle to eat them.
The drink is pretty bad but you just get it down and its over. You use lemons to lower the Ph (alkaloids are soluable at about 5.5) and it makes it taste better too.
Peyote is amost extinct in the wild. More in Taos than around Falcon Lake. You can certainly get a full on psychedelic experience with peyote and that is tough with SP unless it is refined or something. No other plant ally has been as healing for me. I do one ceremony a year and I feel that it is helping me withstand and be strong. I am a better, happier person for it.
I have a bunch of cactus and I am going to be selling them soon. I have spent the last three years growing out enough to market and it is time. I have them from 5' tall and many branched, to 6" tall and rooted. They clone very easlily and are a cinch to grow. A single 5 gallon pot with 4-6 heads on it will provide a ceremony twice a year as well as new clones.
They are completely legal and they are powerful. Effects last a full 12 hours or more and are much different than Peyote, which is almost entirely mescaline. Possessing and selling the cactus are completely legal, but you cant sell juice. I believe that dried cactus, fresh cut cactus, and cactus pills with dried powder inside are legal too.
There are a bunch of cactus that have active alkaloids. There are a bunch that have some poison alkaloids too. Dona Ana (Corypantha macromeris) is a big time narcotic and will knock you out for a couple of days like ruphenol. It grows all over New Mexico.
Then there is DMT! A whole different ballgame! Binary spirits, Ayahuasca, Ayahuasca Borealis, Pharmahuasca, smoking phalaris extract, etc. etc. And New Mexico set another precedent here in Santa Fe with the 1999 ruling on the Church UDV and their right to use ceremonial ayahuasca. So there is another very good healer of both mind and spirit that is available to us to experience!
I highly reccommend any of these to anyone. Google them. Do your research. You will find that they are powerful healers of body and spirit and have been used for that for centuries. They are legal, and they are completely safe in every way (from what I have been able to find out and from my personal experience).