Peyote and Other Psychoactive Cacti | 
| Author: Adam Gottlieb
Publisher: Ronin Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 639724
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.3
ISBN: 091417195X
Dewey Decimal Number: 635
EAN: 9780914171959
ASIN: 091417195X
Publication Date: July 7, 1997
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Product Description
All-new editions of four popular guides to altering consciousness -- These underground classics from the 1970s have been rewritten and repackaged with new illustrations and photos, and designed for easy reading Focuses on obtaining seeds, cloning, grafting, growing cacti, and extracting maximum output of mescaline and other alkaloids.
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 Better to buy Anderson's Book May 18, 2006
I recently bought this book after purchasing a few Lophophora specimens, and was somewhat dissappointed. Much of the information is sparse or inaccurate, and overall you come away having learned little. It is vague in describing the effects and chemistry of the plant, and minimal effort is made to try and describe different species and varieties.
A much better book to buy would be "Peyote: The Divine Cactus", by Edward F. Anderson. It gives a detailed ethnographic history of peyote, describing the modern ceremonies of the Navajo, Plains, Huichol, and many other Indian Tribes. He studies its effects on humans in detail, its chemistry, legal aspects of peyote, and (most importantly!) the botany of Peyote, giving a comprehensive view of the species as well as its different taxonomic varieties (eg. L. williamsi, L. diffusa, L. jourdania, L. fricii, L. decipiens, etc.). Much of the information contained within cannot be found on the internet.
Although most of Gottlieb's material is dealt with in Anderson's book, nevertheless the practical information on grafting and mescaline extration is much more detailed in Gottlieb's (probably because of the different target audiences :-)
All in all, still good to have as an accompaniment.
Not so impressed October 11, 2005
This book is ok, if you want to learn about native use and things like that. It has good descriptions of lots of rare entheogenic cacti. If all you want to know how to do, is cultivate Lophophora and Tichocerous, the internet has better information.
 PeYoTe March 31, 2000
34 out of 37 found this review helpful
This book provides good information layed out in an easy to read format on the cultivation, consumption, legality, and history of peyote and other similar cacti. It also gives a breakdown of the alkaloids in peyote and gives detailed methods for mescaline extraction (you know...for resaerch purposes). It also includes pictures and descriptions of other cacti containing alkaloids similar to peyote. The only shortcoming I find in this book is the lack of any research reports on the harmful effects of peyote, but that could be because there has been very little research done on it. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in peyote for any purpose.
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