I assume what you wrote is was just worded a bit inaccurately, so I’m not sure what you meant.

The first biological life (as opposed to non-biological life..?) arose roughly 3.5 billion years ago. Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals shared a common ancestor possibly as far back as 750,000 years ago.

You can. I ate some as a friend (a trained San Pedro practitioner) and I were preparing cactus for brewing. I didn’t eat enough for any effect, just to see what it was like. It wasn’t unpleasant, but it also didn’t taste good. It was fairly neutral.

I believe you’d have to eat a LOT of fresh cactus to have any effect – the water content takes up a lot of the mass. So boiling it down or drying it and making a powder are the two most efficient ways to process it.

In the future I’m going to dry the skin and then pulverize it into a powder. Making tea and then freezing most of it isn’t all that practical, since I don’t plan to use full doses of San Pedro very often – maybe once every week or two at most. (I only sat in ceremony once, with my friend, and I’m now going to be drinking on my own. I’m starting with a small dose to see how I handle it without a guide.)

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