bromocriptine-not all too suspicious. legal to own almost everywhere. ~10g minimum needed to experiment. used medically for a variety of diseases. Really worthwhile if you convert it to it's grignard reagent Lyserg-diethylaminomagnesium bromide(talk about nomenclature headaches. i think i got it right.) and then decompose it with water to yield LSD + bromomagnesium hydroxide.

Diethylamine-suspicioius to buy. not regulated. can be easily synthesized from N-diethyl-m-toluamide(DEET) by means of hydrolysis.

dehydrating/peptide coupler reagent- includes POCL3, BOP, PyBOP,ect...acid chlorides are usually quite toxic/somewhat hard to aquire. peptide couples are ZERO suspicious, sometimes expensive, and moderately "safe" to handle.

hydrazine hydrate-easily synthesized OTC. there are a variety of patents to form it. HH is not used all that often anymore. Hoffman used dry HH.

Hawaiian Baby Woodrose Seeds- contain 3-30% ergot(lysergamides) alkaloids. can be easily extracted and then hydrolyzed to yield lysergic acid and iso-LA. Roughly 500 min. seeds needed for experimentation.

Everything else is pretty standard aside from chromatography. Sep. funnels would work as a column but I would just use a legit column instead.

true true hex. i would have to grow a huge pair of balls to order diethylamine where i'm from...

maybe i'm just paranoid but after recently reading about how a bee by the name of WyndowLicker got fucked for buying ergocristine i'm sorta sketched out.

I think you'd be better off culturing some ergot fungi and extracting the alkaloids from them. Once you've got a decent method down for culturing them, you would essentially have an unlimited supply. I think the fungi method would be better at least when compared to other methods of using pills or seeds since you'd still need to extract, but you would have to buy them multiple times and your supplies could run out or be restricted.

I know, I'm not saying it would be extremely easy getting them, but if you did, this would be the best way to go. How hard could they be to get anyways? Seems like if at the right time of the year you walked around in a few wheat fields you'd be able to find some good stuff. I don't know though, I haven't looked into it very much so perhaps I am wrong.

sedit: do you mean, handling the ergot with unprotected skin may cause these kind of effects? sounds terrifying.
Afaik, ergot can not produce sufficient amount of alkaloids if it is not cultured on alive rye, where it can become a real ergot and form clavuses. In the culture medium, it is possible to grow a large biomass form a single clavus. And then walk in the field headlands, pulverizing a solution to rye and collect the cluves at the end of the season. It seems suspicious, but totally legal (on the ohter hand, poisoning rye may be considered as a terrorizm  ) Better to plant your own rye in a backyard..

Wow I didn't realize they where that dangerous. This almost makes me even more interested in them, since I also am into toxic substances/organisms.

Morning glory seeds are also dangerous when it comes to the vasoconstriction IIRC, it is one of the reasons why when people eat morning glory their legs hurt... or so I have heard, I guess something else could be going on there as well, but this makes a lot of sense to me.

haha that is an interesting story, by having datura in your yard back then was enough for them to kill you because that ones one of the popular witch plants or something like that as well.

the puffer fish sounds pretty scary, I think maybe poison hemlock does something fairly similiar, but I'm not sure.

So, you would have to culture the ergot fungus on living rye in order for it to produce alkaloids, or do you think it would be able to do produce alkaloids from dead rye, and then maybe grow it in a similiar fashion to how one cultures myc for mushrooms on rye?

There is one strain of ergot fungi that produces up to a gram per liter of culture of alkaloids. What species is this? I can't remember or find it. It isn't claviceps purpurea I am thinking of is it?

This probably has no use other then it is kind of interesting:

Ergot alkaloids are also produced by fungi of the genera Penicillium and Aspergillus, notably by some isolates of the human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus.

When I was deep into studying LSD synthesis I found that Merck had an ancient patent for preparing alkaloids from Claviceps Purea(sp?) and another strain, whose name I can't remember.

All other ergot fungi don't have much according to the research I've done. I could be wrong.

Industrially, claviceps is cultured in large aqua-cultures.  This is how they get the ergot alkaloids to make a variety of drugs (prescription).  It does not need to grow on rye to produce alkaloids.  It will probably produce a lot more if grown on rye, but considering the relatively small amount gained at all, I don't think it would be worth the increase.  If cultured in a liquid solution, it can produce ergotamine in the amounts of 2g/1L of solution, which is around 35-40g per 5 gallon bucket.  Considering 3g of LSD-25 can be had from roughly 12g of ergotamine tartrate (that's the yeild alexander shulgin obtained), and 1g of LSD-25 essentially has a street value of $100,000 - I think its entirely worth it. 

(one good hit = 200mcg, 5 hits per 1mg of LSD-25, 1000x5 = 5000 hits per gram, 5000 x 20 [assuming one hit = $20] = $100,000 ).  Of course, I would never endorse manufacturing of drugs, nor selling of drugs, but it's always cool to hold a substance in your hand and think about how much people could/would pay for it. 

I've gone to a local forest preserve with a pair of scissors and a tin can, and collected assloads of ergot containing grasses, so its definitely out there.  Go in late summer/early fall.  Take each kernel and try to grow it on agar.  The agar should have a pH of 5 to 5.5, since this fends off some bacteria, but still allows the claviceps to grow.  If you spawn each kernel at the same time, then you can do a simple blacklight test to see which one is producing the higher amount of alkaloids.  The more UV reactive the growing fungus is, the more ergot alkaloids present.  If that isn't cutting it, you'll have to resort to other analysis methods.

Yes! Paspali was the name! I remember now...

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3884762.html

...that's the strain of choice for lysergamides.