So, I wanted some san pedro cactus to try, and to grow. I am sure as hell not paying $10 a foot for cuttings online, so I hit google street view to look for some. I find a big stand of it growing in the front yard of a house in a neighboring city. I go over to my friends' apartment, have a few beers, extoll the virtues of hallucinogenic cacti, and next thing I know we're on the freeway heading to the house. I'm behind the wheel, with two friends in the back. One wields a buck knife, the other a machete. We roll up on the house quiet like, so as not to spook our quarry. Both friends launch out of the SUV and attack the fucking cactus, two big sections fall in one machete swing, while the other guy saws through it with the knife. I just can't stop thinking, "holy shit this is happening right now". Funniest thing I've seen in my life, they both come running back to the car with several logs, and one impaled on the machete held overhead. Cactus thrown in the back, everyone piles in and we take off. I verified the species of trichocereus we harvested, definitely san pedro. The whole operation probably took less than twenty seconds. That cactus never knew what hit it.
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