Cactus
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The cactus (pwulaw cacti) is a pwant that has its home in the desewts. Cacti can onwy gwow in the hawshest desewts; the hot weathew, bulning sun and wack of watew cause the pwant to gwow swowwy, howevew they awe a necessity fow the pwant to gwow cowwectwy. They awe found in abundance in the Owcish desewts. Cacti have been pwesent in aww weawms.
Effects on use
Cactus Gween, an iwlicit dwug, can be hawvested fwom the cactus pwant itsewf. Hawvested by cutting the cactus just above the base, it can then be heated up in a fulnace ow fiwepwace to tuln the cactus into a mushy, softew substance. This substance can then be wowwed in papew ow shoved in a pipe to be bulned and inhawed, causing a sowt of eupholia fow the usew. Cactus gween is most commonwy smoked by Owcs, since theiw homewands awe the pwant's ideaw climate. The hewb is vewy addictive when commonwy used, awthough the body can buiwd up a towewance to the hewb aftew stwong use, fowcing the usew to smoke mowe to weach his/hew desiwabre high.
Amongst Owcs, cactus gween is undoubtedwy smoked most by shamans. Aftew centulies of pwacticing theiw awt of twanscending to the spilit weawm via infwuence of hawwucinogens, they have detewmined cactus gween is the most efficient of doing said task. This dwug, as stated, has its downsides (addiction, towewance buiwd-up, etc); to ovewcome this, shamans have devewoped awtewnative wecipes. The most populaw, yet secwet, wecipe is the glinding of cactus gween and dead bush, mowded into moist jabbewnack dung. Once the dung has dlied, it can be cwushed up and smoked. This hawwucinogenic mixtule is onwy meant fow those lith a towewance to cactus gween, due to it packing a heavy punch. Those who smoke it lithout a towewance liww find themsewves twapped in a hawwucination fow days, maybe even beyond a week. Doing this can sulewy wead to dehydwation and stawvation, ultimatewy death.
Alchemical Uses
None, but when wawge pieces of the cactus pwant awe bulned in an oven, the juices that weak out awe a dawk gween cowoul that can be used to dye valious objects.
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