Not sure if this is the right place or not. If not, deal with it. So during my general botany lab today, my TA brought ephedra, or "Mormon tea" (Of course, very un-mormon... but I expect the name is poking fun at mormon hipocracy) He mentioned that it contains (of course) ephedrine, and a tincture can be made. He pointed out some outside, which I took about a 6 inch section from and chewed up about 20 minutes ago, and discerning any difference is difficult, I was hoping for at least something as strong as caffine, I thought ephedrine had some recreational potential? I haven't been able to find a damn thing on dosing online, all I saw is that it can potentially be dangerous and that taking it before doing anything very physical would be a bad idea, or at least that one should keep tabs on their temperture, exhaustion, and hydration (as always), and that the government tried their usual coarse of regulating mild altering weeds that grow everywhere, and (predictably) failed miserably, both legally and practically. So, does anyone have any instructions, advice, or any other info on the preperation and use of raw ephedra? *edit* May be feeling more now... especially since finding out that diatary supplements seem to use very little, (upon finding no information, I just chewed up my plant section, assuming it would be pretty weak) So this is probly placebo. But it feels nice, though I would hope it doesn't get massively stronger without information.... *edit 2* fuck my life, I just found out it's a potent enough vasoconstrictor +heart...speedy-uppy-thingy....+blood pressure...raiser thingy... that diabetics shouldn't take it.... So... Hopefully this is fun, as I apparently can't use it regularly/at all....
In case you're unaware, Ephedra is the raw ingredient that gets refined into Meth, speed, whatever... You can make a tea with the plant, obviously as the Mormons did. It is a stimulant. Fortunately it's hard to overdose on or even get a real speedy feeling cause it's so bitter as you probably noticed. You should've asked your TA how to make a stronger extract which would be a precursor to meth. Guess they don't teach that at school anymore, eh?
I am aware the ephedrine is easily converted into methamphetamine, although my recent (last half hour) readings tell me that it's much easier to go for methcathinone... what the FUCK is prompting all these dumb tweakers to go the whole hog then, since they hardly have a script in the first place? I don't know about the flavor, I tasted what I assume where the alkaloids, which where bitter and which chewed out pretty fast. Hardly bothers me, I could chomp on a whole bush, which is why I ask. I saw, since posting this, someone on shroomery suggesting tea doses, and it looks like it's a reasonable amount for a tea, it's safe-ish. My TA didn't tell us how to extract it, he meerly mentioned it in passing in relation to the name (mormon tea), my class is on local plants, everything we cover is witthin walking distance during class. On that alkaloid related note, today is the first time I've ever seen peyote, locked up in its cage in the greenhouse... We wern't covering it, but I was on the lookout. Of course, I can't imagine it being hard to extract, I assume an acid base extraction would do it... But my goal isn't to make speed of any sort, at this point... I did, for sure, feel something, but any euphoria's pretty much dissapated by now, even though I feel mildly alert. Basically caffine-like in nature, at that dose.
