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Salvinorin-A Infused Papers

August 18, 2006

Extraction technique by sphere, papers by redgreenvines

Photograph sent to me by redgreenvines showing his own home made salvinorin infused papers and chillum pipealong with a photo of the brand of smoking papers used.

This extraction and refinement method was worked out and written by an amateur experimenter at a time and place where legal to do

so. If you are in Australia or in one of the few locations in the world where Salvia divinorum and salvinorin have become regulated

please do not be encouraged by this document to do something illegal and obey all local laws pertaining to this plant and extract. The

solvents mentioned in this document are very flammable and can be easily ignited by red hot surfaces, open flame, electric or staticspark! I am not an organic chemist and am not a trained professional in a field related to botany, chemistry or the manufacture of

medicines or pharmaceuticals. Because of this I am unable to advise you how to safely handle and work with solvents or advise on

their proper use for the manufacture of human consumable products. This document is not intended to imply that anything produced by

this method can safely be used as a food or drug. If you plan on doing this yourself do not solely rely upon this document as a proper

guide for either the safe use of salvinorin as a drug or the proper manufacture of salvinorin infused materials intended for human

consumption.

Smoking refined Salvia divinorum extract has been reported to be extremely hit or miss and when misses often leaving salvinorinresidue in the pipe causing the next attempt to burn far too much material with potentially dangerous results in the wrongcircumstances or without a sitter present. One half of a single milligram or 500 micrograms of high purity salvinorin is more than potentenough for most individuals when this pure and due to the extremely small amount of material this is requires expensive measurementdevices to accurately weigh an amount of salvinorin down to a tenth of a milligram or better. Because of this smoking salvinorin isn'tsomething I would want to try, even if I have accurately measured the weight of the dose. However, there is another way a friend ofmine came up with which works very well for him and that is to dissolve the salvinorin into solvent and then evaporate it onto cigaretterolling papers made from corn which hold the salvinorin better than regular tobacco rolling papers.

If you know the solubility of the solvent you are using to drip onto smoking papers or leaf (or what ever) you can get close to astandardized method of dosing smoking materials. For example, you can dissolve as much salvinorin as acetone can hold at roomtemperature (~20 mg per ml) and then use an eye dropper to slowly drip the salvinorin latent solvent onto cigarette papers. If youevenly spread the fluid across the whole paper and let it dry, depending upon how much fluid was evaporated on the paper and theamount of salvinorin it contained, you would know the approximate amount of salvinorin distributed on a given portion of the paper, aslong as you are careful to avoid making hot spots where too much solvent has evaporated on one spot causing too much salvinorin tocake up in one area of the paper.


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Smoking high purity salvinorin which has been infused into smoking papers is much safer from a vaporization standpointcompared to smoking crystalline salvinorin powder itself because the salvinorin is more thoroughly burned causing less salvinorinresidue to be left behind in a pipe. However, one must be very careful with these papers because they are just as potent assmoking high purity salvinorin itself which if too large of a portion of the paper is smoked can easily result in inhaling a far toolarge of a dose no matter how careful you have been to avoid creating hot spots on the papers (explained more below).

Regardless, with care it is possible to get the same high potency effects of smoking crystalline salvinorin itself with less of the riskof getting too much compared to smoking salvinorin itself. One of the benefits of this method is that only half or less of theamount of salvinorin is required for the same effects that are experienced when smoking X factor enhanced or standardized leaf.Here is a quote from redgreenvines who makes these papers explaining how he infuses them with salvinorin using acetone:

I find with acetone that after dripping 8 droplets of acetone from the dropper, the paper is nicely soaked and I canmove onto the next paper - this helps to avoid forming little pools that turn into hotspots - and paper curling also

has to be gently dealt with for the same reason, usually by flipping the paper over between dopings. In a fewminutes the acetone is all evaporated and I can resume.

I like to deposit a total ~20 mg of salvinorin containing acetone to a single cigarette paper and cut it into 48-56pieces, so that each dose will be from 350 micrograms to 420 micrograms of salvinorin

Redgreenvines has reported that through this method he is able to reliably burn a dose with so little smoke it isessentially the same as if having smoked the crystalline material itself.

Theeasy way to get high purity salvinorin with minimal processing to make infused papers

The easiest way I know to obtain salvinorin which is pure enough to make salvinorin infused portions of tobacco rolling papers isto extract dried whole or crushed salvia leaf in close to zero degree F. or colder acetone from one to four minutes, depending

upon the purity desired. This simple method will extract a portion of the salvinorin from the leaf in a short amount of time whileleaving most of the green or waxy impurities from the leaf behind. Not all of the salvinorin will be removed from the leaf whendoing such a brief extraction, in my experience only a third to half of the salvinorin is extracted from whole or crushed leaf with

just a one to four minute soaking in acetone but what you get is fairly high purity. Because a large portion of the salvinorin is leftbehind when doing such a short term extraction be sure to save all of the leaf for a second or third extraction but do not mix thesolvent from the first extraction which is the most pure with the acetone from additional extractions to the same batch of leaf.

By reducing either the amount of time the leaf is in acetone or lowering the temperature of the acetone, or both, the extract willhave far less of the waxy impurities to be extracted from leaf compared to room temperature extractions but at a reduced yield ofsalvinorin. I have found that even at temperatures as low as -20 degrees Fahrenheit or -30 degrees Celsius that acetone is stillmore soluble to salvinorin than even room temperature 98% ethanol or 99% isopropyl (AKA isopropanol, same thing) which areboth considered good room temperature or warmer solvents for extracting salvinorin. For those of you who might be consideringthe use of chilled alcohols for extracting leaf I have tried using 99% isopropyl chilled to 40-50 degrees F. and found this solvent tobe extremely inefficient when chilled that low. I have read a report from a chemist that salvinorin will remain fairly soluble to chilledhigh proof 95% ethanol at 40 degrees F. which should reduce the amount of waxy impurities extracted from the leaf, but evenwhen at room temperature ethanol isnt nearly as quick and thorough extracting the salvinorin from dried leaf as chilled acetonebecause acetone maintains a high solubility to salvinorin at temperatures as far down as -20 degrees Fahrenheit. To determine

this fact I tested how much salvinorin could be dissolve into acetone chilled to minus 15 degrees F. and found that it would holdclose to 5 milligrams per milliliter in the dissolved state which is better than three times the amount of salvinorin high proof ethanolcan hold at 70 degrees F.

When extracting the leaf use only enough acetone to completely cover finely crushed or whole Salvia leaf in a stainless steel orceramic bowl with close to an inch of solvent on top of the leaf in the bottom. Due to the high solubility of salvinorin to acetone anymore of this amount of solvent would be a waste and making processing more time consuming than it needs to be. I do notrecommend powdering the leaf as I have in the past because recent findings have confirmed most of the salvinorin is coating theoutside of Salvia divinorum leaf which makes extraction very efficient regardless of using extremely low temperature acetone. Toreduce the amount of acetone needed to cover the leaf handing crushing is fine, the amount of acetone to cover crushed leafeven if crushed as fine as possible by hand is still in excess of the amount needed on a solubility basis. Be sure to stir the leafinto the solvent the whole time it is in the acetone. Extract the leaf once for one to four minutes, depending upon the puritydesired. When you are finished pour the solvent off of the leaf and into another container and be sure to remove all of the little bitsof leaf which may have escaped into the new container.

This next step is extremely importantto net high purity extract! After removing all of the bits of leaf from the fluid cover the bowl ofacetone with aluminum foil or some kind of tight cover and place in a dark relatively cool place and wait at least 24 hours to allow

enough time for most of the ultra-fine sediments from the leaf which have been stirred up into the fluid to fall to the bottom of thecontainer. When waiting for the fine sediments to fall out of the extraction solvent, in this case acetone, it is very important to keepthe solvent in the dark the to prevent UV interaction with the salvinorin which can decrease and completely destroy the potency ofthe salvinorin if the acetone is exposed to strong light for too long, especially direct sunlight. Working with the solvents in directsunlight or other sources of ultra-violet light such as florescent lights should be avoided at all times but normal room lighting fromincandescent lights shouldnt be a problem for the short amount of time needed to process the extract.

After you have waited at least 24 hours for the sediments to settle the acetone should no longer have a cloudy appearance andcan now be decanted once more into another container to separate the acetone from the fine particles in the bottom. The acetonecan now be evaporated and done so fairly quickly if using a large flat glass casserole pan as shown in this tech to maximize thesurface area exposure of the solvent to the air to speed the rate of evaporation compared to using a round bowl, but in any casewhether using a flat evaporation container or a round bowl be sure to evaporate the acetone in the dark or at the very least insubdued light so that ultra violet light will not interact with salvinorin which is extremely sensitive to UV when dissolved intosolvent. Placing a small fan near the evaporation container which is directed so that gentle waves are created in the fluid cancompletely evaporate from 1000 to 2000 ml of acetone in a large flat glass casserole container in just a couple of hours.


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Warning: Do not place a fan in an enclosed area where the vapors can build which can be ignited by electric sparking of theinternal motor brushes. Also, do not evaporate acetone in a garage near a gas hot water heater because the pilot light can ignitefumes if they build up too much! Be careful of static or electric spark and of course open flame or red hot surfaces of any kindwhich can cause your project, your home and yourself to catch fire.

When the acetone is completely evaporated and the extract is completely dry scrape all of the thin films off the sides and bottomof the glass with a thin sharp metal blade to net higher purity salvinorin compared to any other simple extraction method. Therewill be very little extract compared to a room temperature acetone extraction but what will remain will be fairly high purity with verylittle of the waxy impurities that room temperature extractions always produce. Once scraped up the extract can be a yellow-greento light green color, depending upon how long the leaf was left in the solvent and, as long as most of the fine sediments havebeen removed from the acetone prior to evaporation, is likely to be 40 percent or higher purity which can be easily refined to apurity from 75 to 90% by a single wash of the extract solids with a few ml of 99% isopropyl.

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The following photographs show the extract solids from a one minute zero degree chilled acetone extraction

The crude salvinorin deposited as a thin crystalline film when evaporated in a large glass Pyrex baking dish. If theextract is used without further purification to remove the dark impurities this will cause the papers to be stained agreen color and when burned will produce more smoke compared to if using near white salvinorin, but still pureenough to make papers.

Extract solids after evaporation Close-up of evaporation pan

At 45X magnification the extract can be seen to be crystalline Close in view of crystalline extract after scraping into a pile

The above extract came from 6 ounces of crushed leaf extracted at zero degrees F. for one minute.

As you can see the extract solids evaporated out of the acetone from a brief one minute chilled acetone extraction appearmore yellow than green but once scraped off of the glass looks more like the characteristic green of an unrefinedextraction but with far less of the dark waxy lipids you would get with a longer extraction to the leaf whether using chilledacetone or not. Normally, if I am not trying to produce extremely wax free salvinorin with maximum yield I would use roomtemperature acetone which produces an almost black looking waxy residue due to the large amounts of lipid andchlorophyll impurities but when using 20 degree/~70 degree F. acetone refining the extract takes much longer and farmore effort than when doing a single one to three minute chilled acetone extraction. The higher purity the extract thelighter colored it will be, from dark green to light yellow and finally white when all of the impurities have been removed.

While working with this extraction I found that a second chilled acetone extraction to the leaf for three minutes yieldedtwice as much salvinorin as the one minute extraction which was still pure enough to be able to easily refine the extractwith one 25 ml wash with 99% isopropyl. From this result I recommend a single three minute to four minute chilledacetone extraction over the single one minute extraction to yield more salvinorin without much sacrifice of purity. To getthe rest of the salvinorin out of the leaf a second three minute chilled extraction will get most of the remaining salvinorinout but a third three minute chilled extraction will assure you have all of it. Evaporate the acetone from each extractionseparately to net different purity grades of extract.


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Further refinement of extract using 99% isopropyl to make papers

Evaporated extract from a 3 minute chilled acetone extraction The same extract scraped into a pile, crushed & mixedThe lighter weight impurities forming a thin dark crust on top

Pour into 30 ml glass Pour in 99 percent isopropyl and stir or close and shake for two minutes

*If you want to make tinctureinstead pour in 151 Proof ethanol.

If having extracted from 200 grams of dried leaf all it takes to refine the extract enough to paper papers with is onewash of the extract solids in a shot glass with a few milliliters of 99% isopropyl to remove most of the dark impuritieswhich will reduce the amount of smoke produced when infused into paper. To wash or refine the extract from a 200gram chilled acetone extraction of dried leaf I usually only need to do a single wash of the extract with just 20 to 25 mlof 99% isopropyl in a small one inch wide by 3 inches tall glass but a shot glass will also work just fine for this too.

High purity isopropyl must be used for this process, I have tried 70% isopropyl and found that it will not work, 94percent might work but I have not tried it to know so if at all possible obtain 99 percent isopropyl. Salvinorin is weaklysoluble to 99% isopropyl at approx. ~1 mg per ml but should be used as sparingly as possible because an amount ofthe yield will be completely dissolved into the solvent and washed away with every ml of fluid.

*If you want to make tincture do not refine the extract with isopropanol and dissolve the dried extract solids into any kind of 151 orhigher proof drinking alcohol but be sure that no hint of acetone remains before doing so. To help make sure none of the acetone orany other solvent remains thinly spread and heat the dry to the touch extract at 125-150 degrees F. in an electric oven for an hour ormore. Do not refine the extract any further for tincture because compounds from the leaf make it more effective.

190 Proof Everclear works best for tincture but 151 Proof also works just fine. Make sure every bit of the extract solids arecompletely dissolved into the drinking alcohol and to assure maximum potency tincture only use the amount of drinking alcoholneeded to completely dissolve the extract. Dont store in a freezer because the salvinorin will precipitate back out of the drinking

alcohol when chilled too far. Always store tincture in a dark place to prevent interaction with light. For an effective tincture 190 Proofshould have close to 1.3 mg of salvinorin per ml of fluid, 151 Proof at least 1 mg per ml of fluid. The more water the less it will hold.

Note: An hour or more after the extract has been dissolved into the ethanol extremely fine leaf sediments are likely to be seen in thebottom of the glass, these fine particles can remain but I usually remove them. If you remove them make sure the brown coloredsediments wont dissolve into a small amount of acetone, wait for them to settle out again and then pour the acetone off andcompletely evaporate to see if any salvinorin remains.


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The photograph on the left shows how dark the isopropyl will become when mixing extract into the solvent

and on the right the salvinorin in the bottom after settling

Thoroughly mix and then let sit 2 hours. After 2 hours.

Once the extract has been thoroughly mixed into the fluid let the vial of isopropyl sit completely still for one to twohours, longer if possible to allow enough time for most of the fine salvinorin particles to settle to the bottom of theglass. After the particles have settled slowly decant the fluid taking care to leave the extract solids in the bottombehind.

Pour the isopropyl off of the solids in the bottom Save the isopropyl poured off of the solids for further processing later

After the extract solids have been washed with isopropyl and still wet with IPA you will find that they stick to the sidesof the glass. To easily get it all out of the glass I usually just pour in a few more ml of clean isopropyl and swirl thesolids into the fluid so the particles dont stick together or on the sides of the container and then quickly dump it allinto a small bowl for complete evaporation before continuing to the next step.

Pour the salvinorin solids into a bowl for complete evaporation Once dry, the color of the extract will be much lighter


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.When scraped up and mixed together the extract appears even lighter Pour the salvinorin into a small 30 ml glass

After drying, to confirm that the extract is fairly high purity and does not contain sediment impurities crush the fully driedextract into a fine powder and pour into a small glass, addling about 25 ml of clean room temperature or warmedacetone and fully dissolve. It should only take two or three minutes to completely dissolve, especially when warm.

Add 25 ml clean acetone and stir, in 2 hours fluid clears. When clear pour off sediments. Evaporate in glass bowl to produce crystals.

So far, I have always found micron sized bits of plant material in the extract which I refer to as sediments, no matterhow careful I am to let it settle out of the chilled acetone used to extract the leaf an amount of it will remain in the fluidrequiring this confirmation step to assure it is all out (as shown in the above photos).

Stir the powdered salvinorin into the acetone for a couple of minutes or for however long it takes to completely dissolveall of the powder and then put it away in a dark place for one to two hours to allow the sediments to settle to the bottom

of the glass. If all of the powder will not dissolve add more acetone until it all does, you cant use too much acetone forthis but larger volumes of solvent will slow the settling process. After two hours most of the fine sediments should havesettled to the bottom with the fluid becoming completely translucent if all of the sediments have fully settled. The secondphoto to the right (above) shows the fluid after waiting two hours, not completely clear but clear enough to pour off forevaporation.

Waiting a longer period of time until the fluid is crystal clear (although colored) is recommended but not necessary at thispurity. The fluid can be colored from light green to yellow at this purity but should not have much cloud to it before pouringoff of the sediments in the bottom of the glass. Be sure to keep the glass in the dark while waiting to prevent possible UVinteraction from light sources which can weaken the extract. Once clear slowly pour the fluid off of the fine brown particlesin the bottom of the glass into a small 4 inch diameter spice bowl for complete evaporation.

After 1 hour of heat evaporation crystals appear Close-up of salvinorin crystals


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Making salvinorin infused papers

Infusing cigarette rolling papers with salvinorin is very easy but care must be taken not to cause too much salvinorin to be evaporatedon any one spot of the paper. The photos show a ceramic cooking dish which has been wrapped with dental floss tying both ends ofthe floss underneath the dish. Suspending the cigarette paper on the floss just a half inch above the surface of the dish and drippingsalvinorin dissolved into acetone over the entire surface of the paper without causing pools and then evaporating.

The photo on the upper leaf shows the smoking paper prior to infusion with salvinorin. ~200 milligrams of salvinorin was placed in aglass vial adding small amounts of room temperature acetone to the glass, stirring for a few moments and adding more acetone until

most of the salvinorin was dissolved, but not all of it. This assures that the acetone is saturated with the maximum amount of salvinorinit can hold while at room temperature for a more standardized method of doping. Care must be taken not to allow any of the solids inthe bottom of the glass to be sucked up by the dropper, only clear fluid.

The eye dropper I used could suck up 1 ml of fluid at a time which is the total amount of fluid used for each paper, dispersing abouthalf of a dropper load full across the top of the paper completely wetting from edge to edge and then gently blowing across the surfaceof the paper to completely evaporate the acetone before turning over to deposit the second half of the dropper load on the other side.Due to the room temperature solubility of high purity salvinorin to acetone at approximately 20 mg per milliliter of fluid about 20milligrams of salvinorin will be infused into a single rolling paper from a half milliliter pass on each side soaking the paper with only 1 mlof fluid. After drying the paper is cut up into no less than 40 pieces to produce half milligram infused individual portions of paper.

For some individuals a half milligram of salvinorin may be far too strong at this purity, adjust to your own sensitivity. 350 micrograms orclose to 1/3 of a milligram of salvinorin is the amount most individuals find comfortable for a single dose at this purity but everyone isdifferent, know your own thresholds. It is possible to get too much salvinorin on an area of the paper of the acetone is allowed to poolup on one spot while evaporating. To prevent this after the paper is half dried I like to pick it up by the edge and try to get the fluid tomove across the paper to keep the pools from drying in one spot. Perfect distribution of the salvinorin through this method isnt goingto happen, but an approximation can be achieved. Careful viewing of the individual pieces of paper will also help to know if salvinorin

has caked up in one spot too much, but without magnification is difficult to see.

The above photograph shows an infused paper with a portion cut out below the gum line to make individual portions for smoking. Thispaper was wetted by acetone switching sides eight times for a total of 4 milliliters of acetone to make an extremely potent paper whichcontains close to 80 mg of salvinorin which needs to be cut into very small pieces to limit the amount of salvinorin in each portion. Thepieces are somewhat irregular in shape which for me is desirable so that each time I smoke one I get different amounts of salvinorinfor varied intensity of experience without going too far one way or another, choosing either a small or larger piece depending upon howmuch I want to get each time.

Whether this method will work to produced reliable doses depends upon how consistent you are when doping them and how muchcare is taken to keep hot spots from forming. It is very easy to make these papers too strong or to smoke too much. Making papers thisstrong dramatically increases the likelihood of getting too much salvinorin and is not recommended for individuals who are new toSalvia divinorum or inexperienced with the effects of strong doses. Use this method to make salvinorin smoking papers at your ownrisk and always have a responsible sober sitter present whenever smoking them.


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Photos submitted by redgreenvines

280 milligrams of salvinorin powder in a shot glass. Dissolved into acetone

14 pieces of tobacco rolling papers ready for salvinorin infusion Close-up view showing the double layer of thread

The above photographs submitted by redgreenvines shows his method of making salvinorin infused cigarette papers. Hetakes a shallow metallic plate and first wraps sewing thread around the plate in one direction, places the rolling papers ontop of the thread and then wraps another layer of thread 90 degrees to the first layer of thread holding the papers securely inplace. After infusion of 20 milligrams of salvinorin into each paper is completed he then cuts each paper into 54 pieces sothe pieces have less than 350 mics of salvinorin infused into each divided portion of the paper.

To standardize each paper this closely you must be sure to use the same amount of acetone per paper and be sure that theacetone contains exactly 20 milligrams of sal-A per milliliter of fluid and knowing how much fluid in a dropper load is so thatyou evaporate no more than 1 ml of acetone onto each individual paper. Be careful not to evaporate too much salvinorinonto one area of the paper to prevent hot spots which can contain far more salvinorin than other areas of the paper.

I prefer to let the papers float on one layer of thread or floss so that I can turn each one over after the acetone has beenevaporated on one side so that I can infuse the other side with salvinorin. As somewhat of a hard head to salvinorin I havefound that I need to infuse each side of a rolling paper with acetone four times over for a total of eight passes, waiting for theacetone to completely evaporate each pass. Individuals who are extremely sensitive to salvinorin may only need one or twopasses of the acetone, dropper load per pass to make them potent enough for a given portion of paper. I have found thatmost of the salvinorin will coat the papers rather than be contained inside the paper itself so when storing the papers makesure they are not subject to friction which can rub the salvinorin off of them. These papers can remain potent for severaldecades or more if stored in a dark cool place away from light.

I do not recommend storage of the extract or smoking papers for an extended period of time in a container wherelight can get at them. Although I havent heard exposing drysalvinorin to light affects potency any more than itdoes when the leaf grows outside in the sunshine it is a good idea to store salvinorin infused materials in the darkwhen not using them. Daniel Siebert recently tested a 40 year old Salvia divinorum leaf specimens and found thatthey were just as potent as fresh leaf but I do not know if these samples were stored in the dark or were exposed todirect sunlight or sources of ultra-violet light over an extended period of time or not.


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More ideas for making papers

I am still trying to find a way to infuse the salvinorin in as consistent an amount as possible so that all portions of the paper containapproximately the same amount but I am finding this difficult. The paper you see in the above photo is typical of what I have been makingfor myself (not for sale) as a self medicated natural anti-depressant. I believe the strength across different areas of this paper varies byabout plus or minus 25% from median which is substantial. I tried a small portion of this paper with an area a l ittle less than the size ofLincoln's head and found it to be about as strong as 1.75 mg of salvinorin infused into regular leaf which is extremely powerful anddisconcerting for individuals new to Salvia/salvinorin. Each of these papers is made from half of a tobacco rolling paper and the ones I havebeen making each contain between 25 and 35 mg of salvinorin.

When trying to standardize the papers to make sure that any given portion of them have a consistent amount of salvinorin I have tried usingtweezers to triple soak them by submerging into a pool of salvinorin saturated distilled acetone as one would dip a string into hot wax tomake a candle. I have also tried using an eye dropper to drip distilled acetone saturated with salvinorin onto the papers. The re-dip multiplesubmersion method produces the most consistent papers but they are always far weaker than applying the acetone with an eye dropper butwhen doing so this method causes portions of the paper to be much stronger than other areas.

Both methods have problems because if the papers are too weak too much smoke is created due to the larger portion of paper needed, ifthe amount of salvinorin infused into them varies too much then it is possible to get more than desired from one piece to the other. Thewhole purpose of infusing papers with salvinorin is to reduce the amount of material which needs to be burned while at the same timethoroughly vaporizing the amount of salvinorin which is difficult to do as a powder or crystalline material. With dipping I get consistency buttoo much smoke, with dripping acetone onto them I can create extremely potent materials but the consistency is far less.

The probable solution to this is to find a aerosol can which can be filled with acetone which has been saturated with salvinorin to spray ontothe papers with, allowing to evaporate and then spraying again. The mist produced would need to be very fine to be able to consistentlycoat the paper this way. Years ago I saw a stainless steel one somewhere which is made for solvents with a top that could be screwed offand hand pumped. Winder, a member of an online forum suggested the following:

You might need a compressed air powered paint sprayer, such as is used for air-brush art work. I think these can be found that use metal

or glass pots to hold the paint. Since the paints are often solvent-based, such would be required and could be suited for your purpose. Besure to catch the over spray with a glass pie plate or something for re-use.

It would probably be a good idea to put a small amount of food coloring in the acetone (if food coloring would work for a solvent too) to allowa visual indication of consistency. The salvinorin I use looks yellow while in acetone but appears white once dried. Whether smoking aminute amount of food coloring is a problem or not I have no idea.

As careful as you may try to make them each contain an unvarying amount of salvinorin across any given portion of them, with or without asprayer, the amount of salvinorin in different portions of the paper would probably vary too much to make standardization possible withoutsome kind of lab. If you want to make a standardized version of these papers the only sure way I know of to do so is to cut out smallerportions of paper prior to infusing them and then dosing each of them separately by evaporating a carefully measured volume of acetone oneach small piece rather than trying to make a single large multiple dose paper.

This above paper was made by incorporating both methods of infusion by first dipping into salvinorin saturated acetone three times,allowing to dry between submersions and then by applying acetone via an eye dropper to completely cover the paper on both sides twice.While this produced an acceptable paper the amount of salvinorin distributed across the paper still varied far more than I would like.

Amount of refined salvinorin to be expected from a 3 minute chilled extraction to 200 grams of dried leaf:

After one wash of the extract solids with 99% isopropyl the total yield of salvinorin-A from a single 3 minute -15 degree F. chilled acetoneextraction to 200 grams of crushed leaf (after the brief extraction and refining losses) was 150 milligrams which is enough to make at least300 individual pieces of rolling paper each infused with 500 micrograms which is more than most individuals would want to dose, be careful.


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Reprocessing isopropyl used to purify extract to recover lost salvinorin

The isopropyl used to clean the extract solids can be processed over to recoup a portion of the salvinorin lost to the solvent. As viewedbelow, the left most photograph shows the isopropyl from the washes which is evaporated in a bowl which when closely examined showsthat particles of salvinorin still remain. The extract was then scraped up into a pile and placed back into the glass for a second cleaningusing 20-25 ml of clean isopropyl which after a two minute stir to completely dissolve the solids is allowed to sit overnight in the dark toallow the fine particles of salvinorin to settle to the bottom

Isopropyl poured off salvinorin Isopropyl completely evaporated

Dried solids scraped off glass Poured into glass Washed with isopropyl

The above photographs show the second processing of the isopropyl used to clean the salvinorin solids from the chilled acetone extraction.After evaporation the IPA coated the glass with a film of salvinorin and other impurities which were easily scraped off and poured back intothe glass for a second wash with 99% isopropyl.

Overnight settling Isopropyl poured off salvinorin Very little remaining salvinorin Poured into glass for evaporation

After allowing the isopropyl used to clean the extract to sit undisturbed overnight the next day I found that some of the salvinorin removedfrom the first wash of the crude salvinorin had settled to the bottom of the glass, as seen above in the left most photo. The reason there wasthis much salvinorin left over to settle out of the IPA again was due to only allowing the solvent to sit for 1 hour before pouring the fluid off of

the crude salvinorin solids in the bottom of the glass.


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If the isopropyl used to clean the extract isnt allowed enough time for the fine particles of salvinorin to completely settle out of the fluid anunnecessary portion of your yield which is above and beyond the salvinorin which will have completely dissolved into the solvent will bepoured off with the isopropyl, as seen in the bottom of the glass shown on the above left. It isnt much salvinorin, in this case only 10% ofthe total amount of salvinorin already refined, but enough to be worthwhile trying to recoup. If you want to avoid having to reprocess the IPApoured off of the extract best to let the solvent sit for several hours before pouring off of the salvinorin in the bottom of the glass, even if youcant see these fine particles in the fluid with a flashlight to illuminate the solvent to look for them, sometimes they can be seen but when thefluid is darkly colored it is difficult to see that the solvent is still clouded by an amount of salvinorin stirred up into the fluid.

Small amount of salvinorin after evaporation. Poured into glass. Dissolved into 10 ml acetone, after 1 hour fluid clears.

The photo on the left shows the salvinorin after evaporation, a very small amount for the effort required to recover it. Once dry thecontents of the bowl were scraped into a pile and poured back into the glass to make sure that it is pure enough or doesnt havesediments in it. Once the solids were dissolved into the acetone I could see that an amount of fine sediments were still in the extractbecause the fluid was immediately clouded. After one hour the impurities settled to the bottom of the glass causing the fluid to return toa light yellow but clear translucency.

The following photographs show the small amount of fine sediments which have fallen out of the acetone.When wet these sediments appear a dark brown color but after drying a sandy tan appearance

Pouring acetone off sediments A very small amount can cloud fluid When wet the sediments are dark but when dry a light tan color

These next photographs show that upon evaporation of the acetone crystals of salvinorin were deposited on the glass

Acetone prior to evaporation After evaporation Close up view Magnified 45X shows crystals

Upon final evaporation the acetone deposits a thin film on the glass which may not appear crystalline when viewed with the naked eyebut under magnification crystalline structures can clearly be seen. Re-processing the isopropyl used to clean the extract solids from achilled acetone extraction, or room temperature extraction using either alcohol or acetone does not usually yield more than ten percentof the total amount of salvinorin from the extraction and because of the extra amount of work required is not worth the effort unlesshaving extracted from a fairly large amount of leaf where the isopropyl washes of the extract solids will cause far more salvinorin to belost to the washes. The isopropyl poured off of the salvinorin in the bottom of the glass could be cycled through another refinementdoing the same over again but isnt worth it for what might be left from this 200 gram extraction of leaf.


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The following photo shows what the isopropyl poured off of the salvinorin which had settled outovernight looked like after evaporation which was a shiny and sticky film which took a long time to dry

This shiny film certainly has an amount of salvinorin remaining in it which could be isolated by additional washes with naphtha and thenafter drying using isopropyl again, but for the amount of additional salvinorin which probably remains isnt worth the time for me to try toisolate. If this were a much larger extraction or a regular extraction where the leaf is extracted three times over to get all of the salvinorin outI would continue working with it but isnt worth the time.

Evaporated remains after 2nd

recovery of salvinorin from isopropyl

This process is nothing but a bunch of small steps done properly, it isnt hard to do if you take your time. Please be veryrespectful of this powerful substance, it isnt something to play around with and should only be used by individuals with soundmind and clear intent who have fully researched the possible effects from small to high doses.

Dosing and other problems with salvinorin papers

Caution: It is very easy to smoke too large a portion of paper which can cause you to pass out without full inhibition of your muscular motorcontrol. This problem has been reported to affect at least five percent of the individuals who get too much which can cause them tounknowingly harm themselves if moving about while out and require a sober responsible adult to act as sitter to assure no harm can cometo them. Other individuals can be come so frightened by the sheer intensity of the experience that they might try to run away from the effect,stumbling around the room or even trying to get outside! I know it sounds awful to include this kind of warning but it is more important youknow about the possibility than to go into this blind.

Salvia divinorum or salvinorin-A should only be used by responsible adults with clear intent who know exactly what they are doing by firsthaving fully researched this material on their own to understand what can happen and what the effects are likely to be. While I have neverseen any study to suggest salvinorin has any kind of long term health effects or toxicity, I am not a chemist or doctor and have no realknowledge on the subject of dosing with salvinorin other than to know how important it is that you fully research the subject on your ownbefore using this material.

Many individuals may need far less salvinorin than usual when at this purity and infused into such a small amount of material requiring onlyhalf of a single milligram, or 500 mics to achieve extremely strong effects. In other words, a half milligram of salvinorin infused into such aminute amount of material has been reported to have the potency of more than a full milligram of salvinorin when infused into leaf. Becauseof this one needs to be very conservative with the portions used, starting out very small and working your way up until you find a level rightfor you. Also, there is a potential that an amount of unburned salvinorin could coat the inside bowl of a pipe which may cause far more to beburned and inhaled on the next attempt. Because of this it is a good idea to re-burn the pipes bowl between uses to assure that allsalvinorin residuals are burned away between re-loads of these papers or any other material.

If you make these papers I would never give them out to anyone without the warning for them to use them at their own risk due to the factthey are so easily to smoke they could easily use too large a portion of them. Best to cut them up into fairly small portions so that they mightfind out for themselves how strong they are by first trying one, then two and then maybe three pieces together at a time than having them

just cut out a big piece and get too much. I'd cut them up into .125 or 1/8 milligram portions. It only takes about one third of a milligram or.350 milligrams for strong effect when this pure and infused into so little material. You may be a hard head with enhanced leaf due to theway all of the other things from leaf affect absorption in your lungs but salvinorin itself or infused papers may get through as if you weren't ahard head!

Time and place: For most individuals the actual visions induced by salvinorin can be very brief lasting only a few minutes but for most alight state of inebriation can last for hours which may not be evident at the time. Although the light inebriating effects are usually completelygone after an hour and a half it is important to wait at least 3 hours after use before operating machinery of any kind. Salvia divinorum andsalvinorin are not substitutes to illicit drugs of any kind and is not a party substance producing purely introspective experiences which arebest done in a darkened room with your eyes closed.

If you are new to Salvia divinorum it is imperative that you have a responsible adult who is already familiar with the effects to act as a sitter.While I have used from low to moderate amounts of salvinorin without a sitter, the first time I felt the effects of salvinorin I was sounaccustomed to the feeling that I it was all I could do to hold onto my chair and wait for the effects to end, seeing nothing at all. If I hadbeen less of a grounded person or had not first researched this subject for many months prior to using Salvia I might have tried to run fromthe effects which could have caused me to stumble or hurt myself.


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Visions

The visions induced by this entheogen are usually very brief, lasting from 5 to 10 minutes for most people but due to the lingering light tomoderate inebriating effects usually lasting a half hour or moreusing Salvia divinorum anywhere other than the place you will then be ableto rest afterwards such as at home in bed or in a comfortable chair is completely unsuitable and disrespectful of this shamanic entheogen.Make your experience a safe one, be sure to use a lighter which will automatically turn off after pressure has been released and have anempty metallic can to place your pipe in right after use! I have written a few common sense warnings here but cannot possibly conceive ofevery situation, it is up to you and your sitter to make using Salvia a safe and positive experience.

To date, these papers are not sold to the public by anyone due to the high amount of risk of easily being able to get too much! Anyone whowould be foolish enough to market them for sale on the internet or other places are inviting immediate scheduling of the extract from thisshamanic plant and even the plant itself, so please never consider selling them to anyone whether on the net or at store front location.

January 2007 Addendum:

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Warning

One last time, if you choose to smoke high purity salvinorin enhanced materials, or salvinorin itself do so at yourown risk. Always have a responsible and sober adult present if choosing to use Salvia divinorum or salvinorin.Individual sensitivities vary, some requiring far less, others more! Keep away from adolescents.

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