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- From: aankrom@nyx.cs.du.edu (Anthony Ankrom)
- Subject: Re: [anonymous] Re: Mescaline
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.154747.14675@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 15:47:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec19.004428.23809@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp
- com (bill nelson) writes:
- >ap.7511@cupid.sai.com (Anonymous) writes:
- >:
- >: >: Mescaline? I have been told that it is a synthetic form of Peyote,
- or
- >: >: something like that. If this is not true, what is it made of?
- >: >
- >: >First off - it is highly doubtful that you had mescaline, or even syn
- hetic
- >: >mescaline. The usual drug is lsd - although others have also been sol
- as
- >: >"mesc".
- >:
- >: You love to claim this Bill, but I've taken synthetic mescaline at lea
- t 20
- >: times in the last 4 years. I'm not a chemist, but chemists have told
- e it
- >: is not difficult for someone with reasonable lab experience. I've als
-
- >: eaten peyote and taken peyote extract a number of time, and I've found
- the
- >: mescaline high to be recognizable as such; distinct from LSD & psilocy
- in.
- >
- >I agree - it is relatively easy to synthesize. And, there may be some
- >mescaline out there - either from the plant or synthesized. However,
- >most of what is sold for mescaline is lsd.
- >
- >I suspect that one reason there is not more, is that lsd is more potent.
- >One gram of lsd makes far more doses than one gram of mescaline.
- >
- >Bill
- >
-
-
- In some ways, I think the potency of LSD to be a moot point in the case
- of mescaline. The synthetic precursors are very easy to prepare. It _can_
- be done from gallic acid(or even tannin and)MeI or Me2SO4 followed by
- reaction with HCL followed by KCN followed by reduction. (Thionyl chloride
- is not necessary to form the benzyl chloride because the hydroxy is
- activated by the aromatic ring, but I realise that I forgot the step of
- reduction to the alcohol. This is the step where the yield usually drops
- under varying reaction conditions... See J Am Chem Soc 73, 1353 (1951).)
-
- St. Anthony, inventor of the wheel...
-
-
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- | \ | || Ph chlani izbrani
- | | |_O-C-C-OH mesarskega ceha...
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