My girlfriend and I tried San Pedro for the first time this weekend, on a camping trip we took in Wicklow national park ( Ireland ). If you've ever seen a postcard of Ireland that had a river, mountains, a lake, and the ruins of a monastery with an old round tower, that was probably this place.... Before leaving. I had brewed up tea from dried material - I boiled up between 110 and 120 grams - so we had enough in the flask for a dose of over 50g each, I had read in several places that this was a good threshold dose. On our second day out there, we packed a bag with water, food , cameras and san pedro tea and went for a long hike ; there's a waterfall a few miles from where we were camped that you can climb up, with rock pools at the top and great mountain views. The climb up was pretty challenging and took maybe two hours, we found ourselves a private little rock pool up there and took some shots each of the tea, which, yes, was absolutely vile. After three small measures my girlfriend refused to take anymore and I just took one more - adding up to four , probably about 200ml of the tea. This was about one o clock in the afternoon. I was pretty sure if we didn't manage to drink it all we would have wasted our time so I suggested we take a break, get back down to the valley, and try some more down there.. My girlfriend asked me "What if I start tripping halfway down this mountain?" I said "No way" - everything I had read suggested we'd be waiting a couple of hours for any effect, and I still didn't think we'd taken enough anyway. Don't you just hate it when your girlfriend turns out to be right about something, even though you're the one who supposedly has done all the homework? So anyway, we started picking our way down the rocky path towards the valley. We were both feeling nauseous, which I put down to the taste and texture of the tea rather than any drug reaction. I just knew I had to hold it together and keep the stuff in me for long enough to absorb it. Somehow walking seemed a little less straightforward but I put this down to feeling sick... I had noticed when we drank the tea that it might have fermented a bit ( it had been in the flask for 36 hrs ), and I got a bit worried that I had just poisoned us and that now we would just be sick all day without any trip. After about half an hour on the path we reached the edge of the lake which was a good place to take a break. Both definitely nauseous, definitely feeling weird. At this point my girlfriend said that everything seemed "a bit different" but she wasn't sure how. I was still worried that we might just be poisoned, but as I looked around, at the lake and mountains, everything did seem a bit strange, a little unreal. The terrain was greener down here, not rocky. I asked " was the grass THIS green on the way up here?" By this time I had decided not to have any more of the tea, at least for the time being, until I had dealt with the nausea.... We continued on - we were still well over an hour from camp. As we passed by other people on their way up, my girlfriend was convinced she could smell each of them as they passed. I was beginning to not want to be around other people at all so we picked up the pace, we were camped in another little valley where no one ever went, and that suddenly seemed very very attractive... I don't know what other people would have thought of us at this stage ; we were openly discussing how amazingly green everything was.... Before we could leave the valley to get to camp we passed through a carpark where hikers could park for the day and my girlfriend lined up at the kiosk to get a couple of cans of coke. I sat on a wall and waited. At this point I knew I was tripping - it was hectic to be around people and children and cars and i just wanted to get away, I felt a foolish grin on my face and didn't dare make eye contact with anyone. About half way up from there to our camp was another little spot by some rapids that was good for a break, it was here that I finally vomited - i didn't care at this stage ; I knew I had already absorbed a lot of mescaline and I felt a lot better afterwards. We were beginning to struggle to communicate verbally - broken, distracted sentences....and did I mention how green everything was? That brings me to the first major point that I wanted to make - we never did drink any more tea, so everything that happened that day was down to a dose of about 30g dried san pedro each (!) We now left the path used by hikers and we were in our own little valley, on the way up to the tent. I was exhausted from all the walking but not suffering anymore from nausea and the trip was full on, an incredible euphoric feeling, strong and beautifully visual. Everything we looked at seemed alive and intense with colour. We reached the tent and spent an hour or so lying down, giggling, enjoying it, and recovering from the walk - this was about 3 or 3.30 pm. This was my girlfriend's first trip apart from a mild experience with some baby woodrose, and my first trip for a long time - my very first with mescaline. By this time, about two hours in, it had all the hallmarks of a strong trip, like when years ago I would take two hits of lsd.... I eventually got it together to boil some water for some tea, and light a fire while my girlfriend chilled out, mostly with eyes closed, and giggling from time to time - she had a big grin on her face too. Even the inside of the tent was a visual playground at this stage. We went for another couple of short walks, just to look around at everything...we were definitely peaking now and with the come up out of the way, we got a bit better at communicating, it was lots of fun. We lost the light at about six and spent the evening talking, staring into the fire, and eventually eating. It was beautiful. Although I had found the mescaline to be as intense as a good dose of lsd, it was somehow kinder and more feel-good. A more organic feeling. Closed eye and open eye visuals were something else... I understand that 300mg of mescaline would be a moderate dose, so I'm convinced we would have ingested between that and 400mg that day. It hit us hard, and the amazing thing is that it hit us so QUICKLY - so much for slow acting Mescalito ! I would put it down as my best trip ever. Having researched on dosage beforehand, I would never have expected this experience from 30g of dried material. Some advise 100g, which would have been very unpleasant for us. It just goes to show how variable the mescaline content in san pedro is. And don't count on it taking two hours to hit - it ain't necessarily so.....
Did you drink it on an empty stomach? I would imagine all of that walking helped speed the absorbtion also. I usually expect to feel the effects within 45 minutes. I must say, your experience sounds absolutely lovely. What a perfect location!
We'd had a light breakfast about three hours before, so yeah, our stomachs would have been fairly empty, and I agree about the walking speeding things up. It was just so fast it was comical. We were genuinely quite messy there for a bit, in nterms of both nausea and disorientation. My girlfriend said afterwards " It's fair enough - you pay in!"
sweet story man I love tripping with a loved one in the woods, I hope you 2 get another dance on the mescaline bridge to bliss, Peace and Aloha
Sounds beautiful! Strange as I am too from Ireland and will be having my first go around with San Pedro soon (around Christmas..new year,new perspective!) and will be purchasing a dried form of it too. I was wondering - how did you make the tea? The same as with fresh or..?
yeah the same as with fresh - just boil it up, filter the liquid off, boil again, filter again. and again and again if necessary till the cactus stops turning the water brown/green -then combine all the liquid from each boil and reduce it down to a gloopy tea...you can reduce it all the way down to a tar if you like, letting the last of the water evaporate, and encapsulate the tar...hope you enjoy yourself.
i was so really anxious after purchasing 5 various psychodelic cactii's --Peruvian Torch, San Pedro, Bridges ii and 2 other that contained no mescaline-- all off ebay in a package for like $75 for 12" of each. The cops took the best two even tho they had already deteriorated but i just waited too long. Take my word for it...it you purchase fresh flesh of cactii hurry as fast as possible to prepare it because if you neglect to do so and leave it outside for even up to 2 weeks after it gets cut and manufactured by whoever, u are going to see that it bruises very easily and before you no it it will hAve brown fungis looking matter all over it. So yea i definately didnt get my moneys worth out of it because i never even got to the mescaline experience. I'm pretty sure bridges ii is still somewhere in my neighbors yard? How powerful is it...i heard it was a very mystical yet magical quest.
I was referring to Bridges ii ~~>erowid.com has some info on it but not nearly enough. Erowid is supposedly the best drug user-friendly site there is out there but what happens when the drug your experimenting with isn't on it??!! LOL its happneed to me a couple of times i hate google search engines and its unimpressive results
It's crazy I just get raw cacti and get like 12" of 4-5" diameter thick san pedro and just carefully take of the spines only. Then I just eat it raw like a cactus stick and I chew the skin and all, I usually eat it on an empty stomach cause in that way I could fit more of the sacred flesh into my body. I can eat it like a cucumber with it's skin on. IT's really not that bad, and the effects are perfect. I'm just a trooper though, I can eat massive amounts of bitter sweet medicine in every form I'm blessed with.
