Hey all,

I guess I just want to make my report for the sake of the entheogen community.

I recently performed my first extraction (vinegar, Ca(OH)2, Limonene) and began testing.

I followed Q21Q21's directions, boiled down a spoonful of gold liquid into gold sticky wax. I used a Crafty type electronic dry herb vaporizer with a concentrate capsule which goes in the vape with concentrate inside of it.

I measured roughly 25 mg and vaped. I got pleasant introductory trippy vibes and light visuals.

Satisfied but naively eager to experience "deeper levels," I waited approximately an hour and a half before loading up on the order of 50 mg. At this point in my multi-trip journey, I had no fear. The results from this vape session were the intense colored pattern CEVs which I thought at the time resembled literally every sensation, object, idea, pattern, etc. that I had ever experienced, all crammed together into a kaleidoscope effect. I thought it was cool but I'm sorry to say I was disappointed. I wanted meaning, not cool special effects. Nonetheless, I was impressed by the immersion and encouraged to go forth and try again.

Then, I made a machine out of a bong downstem and some cleansed stainless steel scrubber. I heated it overly hot with a MapPro torch and ended up melting it somewhat. Picked out the loose,bits and called it good. Also washed with soap and water (bad call b.c. rust).

First time with machine so I went easy, maybe 30 mg, I don't remember. In my freshly cleaned room with a scented glowing hunidifier looking like a glob of angel goop, cross-legged on my bed. Anyways, I got intermediate effects but ended up brining the flame from a standard Bic into the metal and perhaps due to my torch prep or soap and water I had some fairly gnarly metal flavoring. From my notes, "Don't smoke metal."

Some background, recently unemployed, finances draining, at somewhat of a turning point in my life, I chose now to be a good time to try DMT in order to allow a fresh perpective on how to proceed with life.

With this first machine trip then, once I could tell the effects would be mild and tolerable, I was overcome with guilt; instead of getting my life together, I was here wasting time just feeling trippy, and smoking metal nonetheless.

To be continued... I gtg