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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.
Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Ronin Publishing; 2nd edition (July 7, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 091417195X
ISBN-13: 978-0914171959
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.3 x 8.5 inches
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Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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This book provides good information layed out in an easy to read format on the cultivation, consumption, legality, and history of peyote and other similar cacti. It also gives a breakdown of the alkaloids in peyote and gives detailed methods for mescaline extraction (you know...for resaerch purposes). It also includes pictures and descriptions of other cacti containing alkaloids similar to peyote. The only shortcoming I find in this book is the lack of any research reports on the harmful effects of peyote, but that could be because there has been very little research done on it. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in peyote for any purpose.
I recently bought this book after purchasing a few Lophophora specimens, and was somewhat dissappointed. Much of the information is sparse or inaccurate, and overall you come away having learned little. It is vague in describing the effects and chemistry of the plant, and minimal effort is made to try and describe different species and varieties.A much better book to buy would be "Peyote: The Divine Cactus", by Edward F. Anderson. It gives a detailed ethnographic history of peyote, describing the modern ceremonies of the Navajo, Plains, Huichol, and many other Indian Tribes. He studies its effects on humans in detail, its chemistry, legal aspects of peyote, and (most importantly!) the botany of Peyote, giving a comprehensive view of the species as well as its different taxonomic varieties (eg. L. williamsi, L. diffusa, L. jourdania, L. fricii, L. decipiens, etc.). Much of the information contained within cannot be found on the internet.Although most of Gottlieb's material is dealt with in Anderson's book, nevertheless the practical information on grafting and mescaline extration is much more detailed in Gottlieb's (probably because of the different target audiences :-)All in all, still good to have as an accompaniment.
This book is ok, if you want to learn about native use and things like that. It has good descriptions of lots of rare entheogenic cacti. If all you want to know how to do, is cultivate Lophophora and Tichocerous, the internet has better information.
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This is a fantastic little book on Lophophora Williamsii. It offers suggestions on growing as well as removing the main alkaloid for personal reasons... a well rounded list of other hallucinagenic cacti, and overall being the only book on the market about this little plant other than Andersons which speaks mostly about the religious practices tied to this little plant, you have to make it part of your collection. Once you are done here visit my website [...] to learn more about this wonderful little plant where I have put together all the latest information available on Peyote since all the old news is very outdated... you might even have a chance to purchase a nice little plant for yourself or seeds to start growing your own.Happy Growing[...].
Good introductory text with descriptions of many entheogenic cacti that I was unaware of, but the cultivation section seems a little bare bones
This book has a lot in info on a wide variety of cacti. It can help identify and give incite to the contents of the cactus.
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