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Before I joined this forum I had no idea of any law changes, how do they expect people to follow new laws when they don't mail us the information about the new laws? I don't read newspapers or watch news of any sort so shouldn't the Government have to mail out the details of new laws?

Serious? MDMA has a shocking come down, I don't think it is even worth it at all & people on it are very annoying, blabbering away with utter nonsense, unsafe sex with people they just met etc.

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I will take some photo's today, but they will be hard to ID I think because many of the paper barks aren't grow in nurseries & there is tons of them. A broader leaf one is Melaleuca quinquenervia (common native & serious weed in Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Oklahoma and Texas), the lemon smelling ones must be a local native also because I have noticed them in many other gardens around so I think the local council nursery should have them. Yeah so I am not sure it is a good idea to send a potential/established noxious weed overseas.

I thought the laws in thailand had already changed and stated something along the lines of 'kratom users must not be discriminated against' then goes on to explain it was made illegal because it was seen as a threat to the Thailand governments opium trade back in the 1940's. Kratom is a big threat to the bullshit mental illness drugs & pain drugs the west tries to push

Majestic tree this but I am pretty sure the only use for resin was as a glue. Have you had a smell of the resin? Seeds should be edible though.

Does doing this extract on the mexican poppy eliminate the nausea felt from the tea I have made? Mexican poppy makes me feel too sick to be worth it for me, it would be good if this stopped that problem.

I can't see how legally prescribed drugs could be any healthier to have in the water supply. Surely there is much more contamination from pharmacy bought drugs. It's bullshit for sure.

The flowers are like bottle brush flowers but white on the bushes i have. I did a quick look at Leptospermum flowers & they look very different. So I am pretty sure they are Melaleuca. The flowers are just finishing on 2 of them so I will try and get the seeds.

I have 4 different narrow leaf tea trees growing in my yard, 2 of them look close to the pictures I can see on the net of Melaleuca alternifolia. 2 of the tree I have smell like lemon tea tree, the other 2 smell like just tea tree oil but one is sweeter smelling. I can take some photos if you want to ID them or I can just collect some seeds & send them over.

I served my country in the forces & the amount of people destroying their lives with alcohol was very disturbing. I was drinking way too much & after leaving the forces I ate a small amount of a cactus I had been growing for years. Since them I only drink when other people want me to drink with them (once a month) & only 2 or 3 drinks at a time. I think I would still be killing myself with booze if it wasn't for the healing properties of certain species. Also I can't really see how a person could enjoy abusing any of the above listed chemicals, maybe cathinone & ephedrine but the law makers allow supplement companies to make pre-work out powders that expose people to much more dangerous combinations/dosages of chemicals. The law makers need to try Catha sp. for themselves & realise they will need to make coffee illegal because it is stronger than Catha sp.

Off topic but I have read numerous reports about Kratom causing liver damage in certain people. Some people seem certain these reports are myths or were caused by contaminates. Might be a good idea to be cautious until some clear evidence is presented. Here is one of the pages I read the info on http://www.thepoisonreview.com/2011/05/26/hepatotoxicity-from-abuse-of-kratom-first-reported-case/ It would not surprise me at all if the real cause was from consuming too much alcohol & panadol because the amount of booze & pharmaceuticals consumed in western countries is disgusting. Also it would not surprise me if the reports are fabricated by big pharmaceutical companies due to Kratoms threat on the methadone/buprenorphine scheme that they profit from.

Those deformed leaves could be cause by over-fertilising no?

Yeah, good point, suppose all you can do is just inform AQIS of what species you find & ask for permission to bring them in.

This thread made me remember my Uncles pet white cockatoo back in the 80's. White cockatoo's can live up to about 70 years old and my uncles had intelligence roughly equivalent to 5-10 year old human. I was at a small country bar with my Uncle & the cockatoo, there was a old booze hag that was very drunk & loud hanging around us & I can clearly remember his cockatoo leaning over to my ear and whispering "Geez, she's an annoying bitch, ay." Got to be the funniest thing I have even seen or heard coming from a bird I think the fact that the cocky whispered his comment shows immense intelligence.

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Yep, I have never seen one myself, got any pics whoami?

Never seen a frilly leaved Piper or Ipomoea myself

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The images you see of politicians are just that, they are images created by the people employed to analyse what the public would like to hear/see/think. They try to give out a image of someone kind & wise when really who we vote for does not matter much when the political advisers have foreign interests.....

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I have seen it for sale at local nurseries. Pricey tho.

Thanks PH, I agree that it is too risky to use this plant internally often. The seedlings do not smell at all like the mature trees, they only have the anise/sassafras smell. I have heard that others have done a bioassay on pure safrole & it only had sedative effects nothing more (also humans have the enzyme present to break it down so it is not carcinogenic). Some others have suspected cinnamolaurine as the active in Sassafras because they have extracted the safrole out of the sassafras and then tried making a tea from the safrole-less sassafras, this resulted in a stronger effect than when safrole is present. I am interested in this cinnamolaurine & since it is legal it would be great to work out what is going on

First off Camphor laurel is listed as toxic/carcinogenic to humans and some animals. http://www.bioinfo.in/uploadfiles/13257330861_1_1_JCRL.pdf The above link includes this info - In Iran’s folk medicine, camphor has been used both as an aphrodisiac and antiaphrodisiac. In small doses, camphor is used as an aphrodisiac to excite the reproductive organs, causing considerable heat in the urethra and nocturnal emissions. However, in large doses, it is used as an antiaphrodisiac to diminish urino-genital irritation. http://www.weeds.mangrovemountain.net/data/Cinnamomum%20camphora%20-%20Camphor%20laurel.pdf Above link states this - Extracts have been used as a brain stimulant for epilepsy, and other mental disorders. I thought this would be beneficial to the environment to share my experiences with Camphor laurel seedlings since it is a invasive species in Australia. I have been using the leaves off mature trees for making extracts to use in soap making. These mature tree leaves smell like camphor but I noticed the small Camphor laurel plants growing underneath the trees smell like Sassafras. Since I really enjoy sass root tea I thought I would try some Camphor laurel seedling leaf tea. I used about 50 seedlings each with about 4 leaves on each plants, just cut the roots off then put the stems/leaves in plunger coffee jug, added some cold water & used a stick mixer to macerate them then let sit for 1 or 2 hours then filtered with the coffee plunger. The resulting tea tasted nice & I only need to add a small amount of honey to make a drink I wouldn't mind drinking often if it is safe enough. It took over an hour before full effects were felt which were a mood lift, moderate stimulation & warmth. I found coffee was very stimulating if I drink it anytime after the tea. Since safrole has been found to be only sedating & nothing more would anyone know what is causing the mood lift/stimulation from Camphor laurel seedling tea? No negative effects have been felt from the tea personally but definitely be cautious with this plant. I am not recommending anyone try this tea but I am interested in knowing what is causing the effects.