Wile E. Peyote

My mentor Dr Monica Barratt gave me the opportunity to write questions about mescaline cacti for the Global Drug Survey, the world’s largest drug survey. We’ve had thousands of responses to the survey so far, but less than 100 responses about mescaline cacti. I know a lot of you have experience with these green, succulent psychedelics, and if you have, we would really appreciate it if you could check out the survey and help us learn more about relationships with these cacti. The survey is anonymous and encrypted. https://www.globaldrugsurvey.com/gds-2022/gds2022-spikey-succulent-psychedelics-san-pedro-and-peyote-the-mescaline-cacti/

Oi what's goin' onnnn

Thank you to those that joined us yesterday. Your support helps us support the Australian ethnobotanical community. Thanks to you, we are now able to release this important video from Bruce Pascoe to the public.

Two sleeps until the 2021 Garden States Forum! Free hardship tickets available until 9pm today. More detail on this offer here: https://gardenstates.entheogenesis.org/hardship-friday/

Two sleeps until the 2021 Garden States Forum! Free hardship tickets available until 9pm today. More detail on this offer here: https://gardenstates.entheogenesis.org/hardship-friday/

I'm around 2nd-13th, so count me in for the 12th!

Hey everyone just a heads up that tomorrow night’s webcast has been moved from tomorrow to the 15th of December. If you missed out on booking a ticket, there's still time!

Got this juicy one in my inbox: Dear Mind Medicine advisors, board members, and community leaders, We are writing as concerned members of the Psychedelic and Psychedelic-assisted Psychotherapy community who have shared experience working for, or with, Mind Medicine Australia (MMA) under the Executive Officer Tania de Jong. For years now we have witnessed significant emotional and workplace bullying and abuse from Mrs. de Jong towards staff, volunteers, clients with mental health challenges, and members of the wider Australian and International community. It is a well-established consensus amongst her highly qualified staff, past and present, and amongst the wider community, that Mrs. de Jong has engaged in consistent narcissistic abuse of staff and community members. This should exclude her from a role of leadership and culture forming until she is able to address her own condition. Instead, it manifests in her bullying, abusive control, and cruel treatment of those she is responsible for, is representing, or has power over. Let us be clear, this toxicity within MMA is not systemic. It is not the workplace culture. MMA has a long list of (mostly resigned) staff and volunteers who are wonderful people. However due to Mrs. de Jong's position, and abuse of that position, the harm is all pervasive and synonymous with the Mind Medicine brand within the community. For a charitable organisation that is placing itself at the forefront of innovation in mental health, this is incongruent and harmful. No amount of mediation or workshopping has been able to solve this problem, as it is not one of relationships or procedures. It is due to the behaviours of a single individual. Inter-organisational cooperation between MMA and the other leading Australian psychedelic organisations has been harmed potentially beyond repair. MMA as a brand has been black-listed by many leading organisations purely based on their experiences with Mrs. de Jong. In many cases the MMA executive has responded by moving away from a co-operation based model, towards one of zero-sum competition that has tangibly prevented progress. We wish Mrs. de Jong would step down from her position and start taking her own condition seriously, receiving psychiatric help for her own wellbeing and those around her. Recently, senior leaders in the psychedelic field came together to write an article “Addressing Abuse and Repair: An Open Letter to the Psychedelic Community”. The authors encourage a community held response to abuse that includes creating an independent ethics council, a formalised process for reporting, a process of accountability and a restorative pathway for offenders. Unfortunately, this is not yet established. We support the development of these structures and request the MMA Board and Advisory Panel to engage in a transparent, investigative process. In line with the Open Letter, the authors encourage a restorative healing process between the Australian psychedelic community and Mrs. de Jong, should she take responsibility for her abusive behaviours. We the authors have remained anonymous due to fear of litigation. Many of us in the community are grass-roots advocates, professionals, practitioners and volunteers, who would not be able to bear the financial brunt of the type of legal action that MMA executives have brought to bear upon those who stood in their way. Some of us remain too traumatised to take open action long after leaving MMA. Make no mistake, there are multiple and severe workplace psychological injuries that MMA as an organisation is accountable for, but Mrs. de Jong is responsible for. This climate of fear and lack of accountability is not the community we envisioned. But our community is emerging, and it is not too late to correct the course. If you wish to learn more, you only need to speak to any past MMA staff member, or the wider Australia-based community who has dealt with Mrs. de Jong to confirm our concerns. We seek accountability, we seek an ethical community, and we want you to be aware of the current situation that runs counter to that. We trust that with this information, we can address toxic influences, correct course, and heal from what is an unnecessary obstacle for some, and a nightmare for others. No progress can be made whilst Mrs. de Jong is in a position of power over others. A new Executive Officer with the skills to heal inter and intra organisational damage is required, to rebuild trust in the community, and to strive towards the Northern Star Pledge (something MMA is very far from genuinely achieving). The Australian community has so much potential. We ask that you take your connection to Mrs de Jong seriously, for professional reputation and ethical reasons. None of us, nor you, created this horrible situation. However, we are all responsible for the manner in which we do or do not respond, especially as this situation increasingly comes to light in the wider public. We welcome this cathartic process, seeing it as an opportunity to heal and achieve great things together. Sincerely, Concerned members of the psychedelic community

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EGA Microdose 10: Safeguarding genetic diversity of Psilocybe Dr Alistair McTaggart is currently studying the Australian population of Psilocybe subaeruginosa and Psilocybe cubensis. Join our next Microdose Webcast to hear from Dr McTaggart about this study. We will also be joined by mycologist Caine Barlow who will frame Dr McTaggart’s study within a cultural history of the genus Psilocybe in Australia. Tickets are free but your support helps us keep EGA afloat! https://www.trybooking.com/BVDVE

If you've got nice Lophs and/or false Peyotes and are in the greater Sydney area please let me know! I'm hoping to shoot some footage for an upcoming video on common mescaline cacti over the next two weeks. The video will be screening at EGA's December 5th webcast event. KT has helped out with this one, so you know its gonna be good ;)

Raffle + seed donations are closing very soon and need to be sent ASAP. Ronny has been on leave but will return in the next few days, so if you’re waiting for a reply it shouldn’t be far off. As well as the San Pedro seed from Damascus I will be donating a cutting of a Trichocereus hybrid for the EGA raffle. This plant is not yet publicly available and so far has only been shared with sharxx and Fahim. ‘Neptune’ is from a (sso2 x sso1) x tpm cross by nitrogen. This clone has the unusual quality of exhibiting both monstrose and variegated traits. The Neptune graft pictured is Fahim’s. I will take a cutting from the parent plant for the raffle this evening.

Raffle + seed donations are closing very soon and need to be sent ASAP. Ronny has been on leave but will return in the next few days, so if you’re waiting for a reply it shouldn’t be far off. As well as the San Pedro seed from Damascus I will be donating a cutting of a Trichocereus hybrid for the EGA raffle. This plant is not yet publicly available and so far has only been shared with sharxx and Fahim. ‘Neptune’ is from a (sso2 x sso1) x tpm cross by nitrogen. This clone has the unusual quality of exhibiting both monstrose and variegated traits. The Neptune graft pictured is Fahim’s. I will take a cutting from the parent plant for the raffle this evening.

ISO Pelecyphora aselliformis seed <3

A video outlining the bottle tek technique