Peyote and Other Psychoactive Cacti

by Adam Gottlieb, Derek Westlund (Editor), Larry Todd (Illustrator)

Guide to cultivating peyote and other psychoactive cacti and extracting active properties, including obtaining seeds, growing a variety of cacti, cloning, and grafting, and extracting the maximum output of mescaline and other alkaloids, descriptions of procedures used for extracting mescaline from peyote and San Pedro, and legal aspects prepared by Attorney Richard Glen Boire.

Genres: Plants

96 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 1976

Reviews

[Petra went to a party uninvited & ate cake]

Research, you know...

[Sam.the.wolf.king]

It was an excellent and very informative read. I certainly enjoy the growing aspect of it but it was intriguing when the ritualistic aspect was talked about, and the different Native American traditions surrounding it.

[Stuart Estell]

I had to chuckle when the process of grafting a lophophora (peyote) onto a more vigorous stock was referred to as a "sacrament". For a non-consumer of psychedelics like myself there's a fair bit of what one might - unfairly perhaps - dismiss as mumbo-jumbo. The book is light on the history of the use of psychoactive cacti, and contains a fair for typographic errors. That said, the fairly detailed description of how to extract pure mescaline from crushed and boiled lophophoras may appeal to the amateur chemist who doesn't mind the risk of blowing up his own kitchen.

Suffice it to say that I wouldn't let the author of this book anywhere near my greenhouse!

[Reece Eoff]

Great book for anyone that wants to start growing psychoactive cacti!