...swore up and down that back in the day they used to grind up shitloads of sunflowder seeds...extract the vitals with anhy. ethanol..evap..and end up with...
...a charming yellowish oil which is rather sticky, but can make an excellent hand-soap when basified.
They did not, however, take the sole psychoactive in Helianthus spp., which is tryptophan (and rather lovely, at that... good antidepressant, potential trip).
...theoretically, if they up-and-decarboxylated the tryptophan (which they left behind), n,n-dimethylated it, substituted at the 4-position with 2,4-buteneoic acid, and cyclatized the damned thing...
...THEN they MIGHT have gone through WAY too much work to get lysergic acid... if I remember the damned structure correctly... (::shrug:: YOU look it up at 'wid!)
...but...
...umm...
...at best, the dude's packin' soap.