Just took 10 H.B. Woodrose Seeds

Trichocereus pachanio "San Pedro contains appreciable mescaline (Crosby, D.M. McLaughlin, J.L. 36, 417 (1976)."

Pummangura, S. McLaughlin, J.L., Schifferdecker, R.C. "Cactus Alkaloids. LI. Lack of Mescaline Translocation in Grafted Trichocereus", 1981.

Experimental:

Plant Material- Small plants of Trichocereus pachanoi (control) along with others were obtained commercially and maintained under greenhouse conditions. The Cactus was sliced into small peices, frozen, and freeze-dried. The Sample were pulverized in a Wiley Mill.
Exactly 5.00g of sample was extracted with basic chloroform and acid-base partitioning. The extract was dissolved in 0.8mL of methanol. The Methanol-Alkaloid-extracts were analyzed using thin-layer and gas-liquid chromatography mescaline was detected by gas-liquid chromatography in the trichocereus pachanoi sample which agreed with the tlc analysis.

"Two papers with Dr. Carlos Gutierrez-Noriega reported the effects of oral administration of this alkaloid in doses varying from 5 to 11.5 g per kilo in 43 subjects, of whom developed a brief psycotic state. The method of preparation of the alkaloid, some of its physical and chemical properties, the psychological changes, as well as the dosage of the alkaloid employed, suggested the presence of mescaline."

"The only other reference to opuntia cylindrica we have been able to find is in a review artical by Buscaino"

"We have been able to identify the alkaloid present as mescaline, present in a concentration of 0.9% of the whole dried plant. There is no more than a slight trace of additional alkaloids."

-Received March 21, 1960

"Cactus Alkaloids, LXI. Identification of Mescaline and Related Compounds in Eight Additional Species Using TLC and MS/MS"

Ma, W.W. Jiang, X.Y., Cooks, R.G. McLaughlin, Gibson, A.C. Zeyemaker, F. and Ostolaza, C.N.

Apartado 5545, Lima 100, Peru

"The well-known catus alkaloid mescaline (3,4,5-trimethoxy-beta-phenethyamine) is present in lophophora and some species of trichocereus in sufficient concentrations to impart hallucinogenic activity upon ingestion by humans. It is less well known that additional cactus species, representing all three catus sub-families, can also contain this hallucinogen although in lesser concentrations. "

"The detection of small traces of mescaline were reported in eight additional species: opuntia acanthocarpa, opuntia basilaria, opuntia echinocarpa, polaski chende, pterocereus gaumeri, stenocereus beneckei, stenocereus stellatus, and stenocereus treleasei"

In 1986...

Source 1: Cactus Ranchito, Tarzana, California.
Source 2: purchased from Abbey Garden, 4620 Carpinteria, California 93013.
Source 5: cuttings from plants grown at the Huntington Botanical Garden, 1151 Oxford road, Marino, California 81108.

"This was a report of the detection of mescaline in polaskia, pterocereus, and stenocereus."

"Quantitative tlc estimated the maximum concentration in the richest of the reported species (stenocereus stellatus) to be at the level of 0.01% of the dry weight, an isuficient amount to cause hallucinations upon ingestion."

"'Neoraimondia macrostibas' is an ingredient, with 'Trichocereus pachanoi' and several noncactaceous plant species of the Peruvian hallucinogenic drink 'cimora' ; the absence of mescaline in Neoraimondia arequipensis var. roseiflora, formerly treated as a variety of N. macrostibas, leaves unexplained this folkloric use."

Brief Report Jul-Aug 1986.

"Endless curse, blood runs cold
Evil stare, will turn your flesh to stone."

So it is a decent guess to predict that LSD production may stem from rural America wheat and rye fields and through the agricultural industry. If you visit a Wheat field you might be able to find it. It is highly toxic I think.

"Abstract- A memeber of the family Orchidacea, Oncidium cebolleta, is used by the Tarahumara Indians of northern Mexico as a temporary replacement for peyote. We have found it to contain the known compounds: 2,7-dihydroxy-3,4,6-trimethoxyphenanthrene; 2,7-dihydroxy-3,4,6-trimethoxy-9,10-dihydrophenanthrene; 2,3-dihydroxy-4,7,8-trimethoxyphenanthrene; and the new compounds: 2,7-dihydroxy-3,4-dimethoxyphenanthrene; and 2,7-dihydroxy-4,8-dimethoxyphenanthrene."

"The Tarahumara Indians of northern Mexico use a number of hallucinogenic plants in religious ceremonies and were one of the first peoples to gain publicity for their used of Lophophora williamsii (peyote). Along with other plants, one important tempory replacement for peyote among the Tarahumara is Oncidium cebolleta. The whole green leaf is said to be consumed after it is crushed in water. This member of the so called "rat-tail" of Oncidium orchids was one of the first introduced from the Carribean Islands into Europe for culture. It was reported that 'the natives use it externally...crushed with salt...wherein it has agreat reputation [in treatment] of serious contusions, bone fractures, and other diseases'"