I hate even reading all this crap. I started tripping in the early 80s. Yes, there was still real LSD on the streets then. Bout $3 a hit. $25 for a sheet of 100 (or less). Not all of it was top-notch, but top notch or not those were the prices and you could (pretty well) count on it being real. But at the time there was a market for it. The ergot required to make it was easy to obtain and its not difficult to make--- unless you want a super pure version. Same still applies, but theres no real market now, so its not really on the streets anymore. Last I knew, late 80s, you could still go to a Grateful Dead show and cop pretty easy, real thing, low prices. But as the 80s wore on, more and more fake flooded the market and it became very unreliable. Personally, I wouldnt touch some crap on the streets being hawked as "acid" or "LSD". Its pretty unlikely that its actual LSD. If not, then what the hell is it? Scary. As far as mescaline goes, if its not cactus buttons, its not mescaline. Mescaline is so difficult to synthesize nobody is going to bother with that. What have they done? Grown some cactus and made an extract? LOL No. Research it some and you will find out that there are now known to be several cactus varieties that contain mescaline. Some of them were or are sitting in your grandmother's window sill. Some of them are plenty potent enough to make it worth your while to choke it down. Then again, puking your guts out before a hard trip isnt for everyone. These are the reason that real mescaline never found a market-- and if someone was hawking something as such it was a fake. In 1987 there were sheets of "Journey" album cover going around USA. In MI some friends and I copped some: very LSD like, yet it was a little strange. I constantly had in my feild of vision a series of points of light that would quickly form a circle and then spin round. I could shake it off, but just as quickly as they had gone they would reform and do the same thing. In next months High Times they had a warning that "Journey" album cover "acid" was being made on the East Coast and it said "Warning: not true LSD". This was back when it was less likely than now that you would get a fake. I hate to think about what its like nowadays.