Dithyramb, hey great post.
There's many things I wanna talk about.
First of all, I saw you posting about this in the Phalaris ID thread and before I saw the yellow-tassels on
the seed heads I thought to myself it could be Phalaris Paradoxa.
Then I saw the dried Syrian Rue plants and I wondered if you are in the Middle East area.
(EDIT: You are in Turkey! Nice, so you probably have P. Brachystachys, P. Paraodoxa, and Alopecurus Pratensis all growing)
I have collected Alopecurus Pratensis, Phalaris Aquatica and Phalaris Paradoxa in the wild and
extracted from each species.
I did not know Alopecurus Pratensis grew in Asia before today, though.
So it naturalized to Australia and North America from Europe and Asia.
If you look through my bioassays in the Phalaris Way of the Future thread
You'll find my friends and I have had success with wild harvested P. Paradoxa.
A dear friend who was backpacking through Montana years ago said they
discovered a "sea of Phalaris Aquatica". I was skeptical because I thought that
Aquatica was found more in Oregon and California.
So I had them boil down 500g of plant material into a gooey resin.
They sent this resin along with a few seed heads for ID.
The "Aquatica" they claimed was actually Alopecurus Pratensis,
but I did not know this before I smoked it.
It seemed active and I shared it with 3 other friends who said they got
high from it. I ended up coating the goo on the dried seed heads and through it in a bong.
I can't really tell you what that was like because I do not remember.
There's a few species of grass I haven't posted about on here because I want to get more results from them before I say they're active.
I don't wanna go and say Alopecurus Pratensis contains DMT because
I do not know. There are some other grasses which may contain hordenine, beta carbolines,
or gramine and I'm not sure how each of these compounds operates on their own.
Be sure to know what patch of grass you harvested and extracted from.
Did you accidentally grab a bunch of that Brachystachys that was growing nearby?
If the grass is active I would go as far as saying you have Phalaris Paradoxa potentially growing right there,
which looks very similar to Alopecurus and could have mixed both grasses when extracting, providing an active
yield. It definitely appears you got Alopecurus on deck, but there might also be more Phalaris growing amidst it.
Phalaris Paradoxa is one of the strongest grasses I've ever worked with.
I have never seen a grass extract blast someone off as much as this species.
It all varies though from season to season.
Can you post any new pix?
Interested in hearing more about your experiences with Alopecurus
If you find in literature anything about Alopecurus-staggers that would be a huge hint
into it's indole content.