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Hi, those who been around a while know who I am. It has been long time since I posted here or even read what the fuck is going down. So I wanted to share some shit, there is this band called The Natural Bead, they make music on psychedelics, nothing new, but still interesting I think https://thenaturalbead.bandcamp.com/ they are just trying to find themelves and their audience plus I finished my doctoral studies and can breathe again thank fuck for that! if you are curious it was in place-based arts education, and was acknowledged for its contribution to intercultural understandings in Australian landscapes. Hope everyone is well! with love plant brothers and sisters

I have been a member here since May 2012, I guess its finally time to post something! I have been lurking and drooling over all the nice cacti but I figured its time to contribute Psycho0 X Cuzcoensis Monstrose pachanoi SS02 "short spine peru" with mullein Lumberjack and TPM graft TBM graft Unknown hybrid seedlings (lost labels, pretty sure they were a bridgeXpach or the reverse) Scop X Peru seedlings that I got when they were a couple inches kimnach X (SS02 X SS01) From same source as ^ Lumberjack Peruvianoid BBB Macrogonus Scop X Super Pedro pup KK339 pachanoi (clone) BBB Macro and Peruvianoid after some weeding Thanks for looking I've got more to share in the future, and I look forward to being a part of this great community here at SAB TheOwl

Nice work mate, they are looking really healthy Welcome

spring busy,busy time mofos plus I am finally in hospital rehab. still smashing asparagus, pretty much over it now...lol new matey to share some wisdom... sometimes zero fcks given is the way to go

Don't get me wrong, I'm not confident. I just know governments are money hungry bastards, and this is the biggest cash cow in the world. It's more mathematics really. I can see the snow falling is all, and on this slippery slope the chances of a snowball are fucking huge $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

I'm just glad WA's Health minister stated that all Australian governments are strongly opposed to the recreational use of cannabis. Glad because bitch gunna eat her hat in less than 2 years time. Just saying...

Got this one from Fields From this plant

P's Dog here Pat Uri has a strong chemistry background and has explained to me exactly how it works, but it went right over my head - Gee I'm a dog, not a cat, for goodness sake what do you expect? When he gets back from his walkabout - which accounts for the some of the CQ Yowie sightings lately - and if he's not so grumpy he'll explain and you peoples will probably get it better than me. But what I do know is it is a long way from satisfactory analysis and only the more expensive lab tests can determine true drug presence - not quantity, just presence. It is an Amplified Reverse Immunoassay test that is cheap and nasty a sort of "white-man-magic" to impress the public. Developed from the same tech as in a pregnancy test which was designed to pick up the few molecules of hCG that a fertilized egg releases when it implants in the womb. That's how tiny the amount of test material you need to set it off - you could blow a puff of smoke on it and set it off. Thousands of times less than could possibly "impair" you, you honestly wouldn't notice. It is hair triggered and often gives a false positive - that is says there is test material present, but really isn't. It very, very rarely gives a false negative - says nothing is there, when in fact you are on it. Of course we all know our truth - but every alcohol driver is in denial. ("So how many drinks have you had tonight, driver?" "Arrr - only one or two officer, not enough to be over the limit." lying through their teeth.) Stoners may well have had consumed hours before and genuinely don't feel impaired and are spun out when they get swabbed positive. No need to be, the swab is often wrong. See hCG is a whopping big molecule with hundreds of identification points - but d9-THC is tiny and the N-methyl,phenylisopropylamines tinier still all with only a couple of identification points. Fortunately that is what it tests for - not tetra hydrocannabinoid carboxylic acid which has no impairment. To make the pregnancy test they put hCG - only found in humans - into a bunny rabbit and as a foreign protein the bunny makes antibodies to it. Antibodies are even bigger proteins. These rabbit antibodies are removed and because they only react with hCG can be used to detect its presence in the part-per-billion range. The antibody gets a gold atom attached to each and every molecule and put on the butt end of a strip of film. When the film gets wet capillary action makes the gold labelled protein creep slowly to a point on the film that's got a gold activated invisible dye on it and the gold changes it to coloured meaning the antibody has made it to that part of the film. If there is hCGH in the "wet" it locks to the antibody making a dirty, dirty big protein that never makes it to the dye and so no colour appears - the positive result. To make the drug test, they find the drug receptor proteins from a sheep, and put those in the bunny. The bunny makes now sheep drug receptor protein antibodies. These bunny antibodies are put into another sheep that make antibodies to the rabbit antibodies of sheep drug receptor proteins - a big protein antibody. These anti-antibody-anti-receptor proteins are labelled and put on a strip with the other proteins. Theoretically in the presence of the test drug the receptor proteins close up, can't react with the antibodies that can react with the labelled anti-antibody-anti-receptor to make a dirty, dirty big protein and the gold never makes it to the dye and so no colour appears - the positive result. Tiny traces of a reaction that set off a bigger reaction to set off an even bigger reaction that stop a reaction from happening, hence the term amplified. One tiny flaw - its all crap! With so many steps there is more chance of failure in any of the preceding steps - and so the false positive. However the insurance companies wanted a cheap and quick test and they wanted it now. And drug companies don't say no to making money. So like it or not, another much more expensive test has to be done from an expensive machine the police have to cart with them. It may use tech only a little better than the swab, same antibody/antigen/dye tech but no amplification just a powerful microscope to read the test strip - less chance of false positive, but still there. Police hope that by the time you get to court it has been checked and verified by a lab using the proper gear. Sorry no way for me to explain it any simpler, and anyway it is still hocus pocus mumbo jumbo however explained. Pat Uri is the guru at explaining chemistry. Hope it helps a bit - even just to point out how complex it is that not even the testing constable really knows what they are actually doing....funny that. The mystique of the Law is the name given to the bluff - hoping you'll just plead guilty. Ever heard the one about the Emperor's new clothes? Had to give you good people something back for your support! Shine On!

This statement absolutely shits me to tears. The guards in auschwitz were "only doing their job" are these people f'ing robots? As if they have no choice at all? Male bovine fecal matter!!! That argument certainly didnt save them from the Nuremberg trials. If your employer orders you to do something that you know is inherently morally wrong how the fuck do you sleep at night? There are choices those who wear uniforms can make. A sicky, look the other way (puts a new perspective on schultz from hogan's heroes does it not?), transfer or just plain quit! Most just choose not to make a choice. Instead falling back on "we must follow the orders" or the ever popular "its the law" I have been in precisely that position multiple times and I chose to sleep at night.

wtf is going on round here...lol fck heaps to catch up on, spring is a busy time at the best of times. I'm healing up well and survived propaggedon Hard on this old bastard at the best of times...lol. get some pics up later

Nee How! Many thanks for above: by reproducing Phaemon'sDog post it is forever frozen for him to edit out his terrible spelling and grammar. No excuse with spellcheck! Ha! This thread has been printed and hardcopy wrapped around Master Pat Uri's Iced VoVo biscuits in last week's food basket to his meditation cave in farC Q - that is not swearing - where he resides for now. It would be wrong to disturb his sequestration as he contemplates higher spiritual matters - and WiFi in mountain cave is pretty shit anyway. I, fake Doctor Zhong Ki Wang advise that tobacco curing information must not be used by readers in Australia which has world's strictest anti-tobacco laws profitable and plenty more foot to shoot itself through! Master Pat Uri, uses a more colourful expression past posts to describe 'this Government's oversized organs causing instability, resulting in criminal, even obscene, penetration'. His exact words are not medically comprehensible or anatomically possible to my limited English background, but may still be there in a previous post, moderators permitting. Allow me to update with legal changes since last time Master Pat Uri used this expression (that still all seem to protect commercial interest monopolies, tax collection and nothing to do with consumer health and wellbeing):- - Not even Master Pat Uri can say with confidence if nicotine is actually really legal, illegal, tolerated, unenforceable, etc. Great Rock of Canberra -and mossy it is too- says in "ink-on-paper" legislation that nicotine possession is illegal. Certainly police arrest people sucking on e-cigarettes of freebased nicotine - the most addictive form of the alkaloid. Yet children can buy much laden chewing gum and other confectionary off shelves of Multi-international Supermarket Chains as they can afford. Legally children can still smoke too, law only stops them buying tobacco. - Living tobacco plants and seeds are banned, but authorities can not be bothered to destroy feral. Property owners can't remove it for transport without authority and bale plate labels, cutting or poisoning the weed plants is illegal too. (see down) - ATO have finally "defined" two ancestor diploid and one polymorphic tetraploid spp. as the tobacco of commerce...so time travellers beware of bringing these into the present (Master Pat Uri has suggested maybe ATO "googled" for their research.) - Unlicensed possession - what licenses? - of manufactured tobacco or to manufacture tobacco is illegal. ATO defines "manufactured" when leaf is cut ("ragged", "shredded", "stripped", "shagged", "ribboned" in tobacconist speak) and so, by extension, cultivated, harvested, culled, mowed or ripped from the ground to destroy it. It is "manufactured" if any chemical substance is applied to the leaf (molasses, mu'assel, glycerol, sorbitol, honey, xylitol, liquorice, acetophenone, etc. in tobacconist speak) and by extension, sulphuric acid, glycophos, 2,4D, any other herbicide to destroy it. In theory, colour cured, unstripped leaf hanging is not manufactured and such exempt. Truly last years Master Pat Uri has flown between Australian states for FIFO jobs ("kidnapped") with kilogram "hands" of folded leaf ("ransom") in his luggage. When luggage scanned airport customs and security officers concluded "it was some sort of vegetable" and freely allowed passage. In tradition colour cure leaf is not much cut anyway - he and his Elder other tribes ("enemies") mates treat these like rare stamps or money notes - trading, swapping, admiring, stretching, folding, fingering them for their beauty, odour, rarity, colour and perfection, and valuing them in an exchange rate known to them - years can pass before such are ever consumed, and more fondled meantime the better. Seems this is one of few botanicals that withstands, improves, with such intimate human contact. Sacred fire wood ash may be added before ceremonial ingestion - Elders may be particular what ash, but potash is potash I think. Burnt shell ash too, but this can be severely caustic, you must learn air slaking, and it tastes crap. Snuff made from stalk (petiole, mid vein) should be exempt as ATO define leaf lamina only. - International travellers may only carry <50g of foreign tobacco (or 20 cigarettes, or 2 cigars) into Australia - much to amazement of all foreign and duty free tobacconists in the world who may not carry such tiny amounts for sale. Many visitors are harassed into abandoning their carry on as that is easier for Customs than explaining laws properly, honestly, accountably, transparently and in their language... Meanwhile illegal tobacco is smuggled into Australia by the 30t, 20' shipping container load (see below) - that is the real problem. - On ATO's behalf Customs and Border Protection withhold ANY amount of tobacco-containing-material ordered online for import into Australia until <$700/kg+gst+handling import duty is paid. This is regardless of packaging, or actual amount of nicotine or tobacco present, they weigh all whole parcel to calculate excise. American chewing tobacco might only be 30% tobacco but an $8 item will cost +$200 duty. Halal "washed" moassel for shisha averages ~5% tobacco and never exceeds 0.2% nicotine but a $12 item will attract +$150 duty. Visitor guests from Near East have been so harassed by entry officials they abandoned their few grams of 'dhoka' fearing violation of import law (they are naturally law abiding by virtue) - Australian Customs and Border Security never bothered to explain to them plainly they were quite within their rights to keep Arabic tobacco.) Delighting in his practised trading art, Master Pat Uri organises online oversea tobacco buys to be delivered in grams' intricately purchased, by:- suspended; part; FOP, FAC, COP, FAD, COD, COCC, FOT underwritten shipping terms; back; cancelled; and etc. orders, with onshore clearing terms, and then suspending, abandoning or waiting until last moment of demurrage, etc. to pay duty, in depreciated $AUD - and if Customs make one mistake, he instructs writ to sue with litigation. A time consuming, nightmarish, logistical, bureaucratic chaos for minimally paid Custom's young warehousing staff over a few dollars of tax revenue! ("Breath with me, come play my game, I'll test ya!" he sings.) This, while Master Pat Uri has himself a good, fat black belly laugh in a remotest Queensland property, tending his $multimillion mixed 'crops' and feeding excess imported cigars to his homicidal pet bulls for their tummy upsets from a 20' refrig container humidor stocked up over 40 years! (continued on, after side note.) [side note. NB - note well, dear readers - A very serious point to this, Master Pat Uri's "in house" jokes to this, his favoured plat-forum, aside:- presently Border Security seized-imposed-import-duty applies only to online tobacco, but Federal Politicians plot, as you read this, to impose +$17% on ALL your online oversea purchases regardless of if items not available in Australia: Feds pretence local market protection! Ha! All reminiscent of their Federal "Corrupt Rum Corps" status past, profiting from guarding their little Island Gaol, import control and fleecing both man and mutton. (Beware! Australia:- be very aware.) Perhaps Feds would have implemented it already except the $AUD is so weak the only drugs worth smuggling in are cigarettes! "Boston" Tea Party, anyone?] Side note ends. (Continued, from above.) Master Pat Uri builds a case proving Customs and Border Protection has not the infrastructure to deal with one man and his personal quantities of imported tobacco presently - how will they cope with an entire Nation's online import trading market? He hopes this will stall their money-grabbing plots and pursues it quietly, behind the scenes, "'Majority' of the One"- and regardless of how many tax free boxes of foreign cigars Feds offer him from their International Diplomatic Immune pouches to shut-up. Imposed tobacco Import Duty means every piece of local feral "sheep dip" tobacco rubbish from the compost heap is now worth ~$600/kg. So alcoholic, porn-crazed, sex worker hiring, gambling addicted, anti-drug bigot and all so legally sanctified registered voter "Greasy"Pete Phaemon - Clan Uri neighbour/unpaying tenant - has - in Master Pat Uri's words - "been busier than a three balled tomcat on Viagra!" lately. On a positive note now it affords his runaway, estranged 'dog' to get regular food and live in Brisbane city apartment house, from which I post. ["Damn straight! I do - folks! I even got 3 toilets now! - kicking it up large style loud with all da resident ready, party hearty Brissy bitches and dawgs non-stop banging- Yee!Ha!"...:- "P'sDog"] Mod Squad may confirm mirror ip. and remind P's Dog of enormous list of chores yet to perform in farC Q for Master Pat Uri. However, on Phaemon and his dog's behalf, many thanks ATO and Federal "Gubba Men" (dialect - I think - for "government") for this enriching law and their party donation cheque is in the mail. - Plain labelling of all 'commercial tobacco products' i.e. "smokes", is now mandatory - vendors may not promote or acknowledge their wares for advertisement - legally enforced under-the-counter trading, that strangely contradicts the first requirement of the law of contracts, i.e. open, public advertisement. (Master Pat Uri has claimed they're called 'tobacco products' because there is more genuine tobacco between his teeth than there is in a commercial cigarette.) This political stunt has been a God send to counterfeiters, who have no longer to replicate patented packaging, and leave no way that the end consumer can tell product is genuine. When consumer complained occasional plain packaged item tastes different, blander, than previous original genuine packet, authorities laughed in their faces to say:- that is the psychological effect of drab olive packet; the confronting images; lack of point of sale advertising; erosion of self esteem; social outcasting; impoverishment; etc. the product knowing, tax paying cigarette addict must now endure...While Government hope to collect >$20 for every packet sold presently. (I continue after pertinent side note that follows.) [side note:- Australian Feds made a great mutual backslapping and song-and-dance act over their brilliant idea to plain label, when they stole the idea lock, stock and barrel from Canada and knew it was coming anyway. International tobacco companies made a show of protest to compliment - it's an "Eton debate" game they have been playing for centuries having resources to do so - and reduce their liability, for what other product can you sell knowing it causes cancer in exactly the way it is meant to be used? yet, avoid compensating victims. For last fifty years annual tax revenue from tobacco sales is more than Federal Government spends on Education, Health, and anti-tobacco programs like Quit, combined. Over last twenty years as smoker numbers halved, but tax more than quadrupled to rebalance loss in revenue and shortfall. Governments, since James 1st, have long learnt how to collect the golden eggs of the golden tobacco, rather than kill the goose that lays them. At over $20 per unit, do you honestly think they really want to extinguish the habit? or allow TSNA carcinogen reduced smokeless alternatives, like snus, snuff, e- cigarettes, etc. from commercial sale?] Side note ends. (Continued from above) Only when lost revenue was realized Government admitted >12%, and growing, Australian 'smokes' are counterfeit and "chop-chop" is rarely ever local, but of /OBSCURED ON LEGAL ADVICE/ origin, 'criminal' (that is, not Government approved) syndicates bypassing, in house, manufacturer's brand specific "chemical" adding and therefore ATO. This is why "chop-chop" mostly appears as professionally flue cured, cut, blended, DNA exact, identical to oversea grown commercial feedstocks - so untraceable - yet lacks genuine burning characteristics and flavour, it is same but incompletely unmanufactured. Australian public persecution of legendary, non-existent local growers is "kill chicken, scare monkey" for media spread claptrap. No commercial tobacco production in Australia, for decades. Police prosecution of retailers the only mandate possessed in well orchestrated global, yet in house, conspiracy. Plus makes newspapers big headlines for next to "Dope Fiend beats Senior to Death for Codral" or "Miley Cyrus wears bikini! Pictures inside". Ooo! Ahh! Me buy, me read! Premium, quality real tobacco can barely be bought in Australia - nothing beyond mid-strength available. Long established, world renown, famous tobacconists refuse to comply with trivial law and repackage into ugly, substandard, plain packaging. They are too proud to supply their tobacco in anything less than traditional, world recognised, high quality formats of gold gilt banding, Spanish Cedar boxes, lithographed labels, pressed and water marked DOM auditor, inspection stamps, appreciating investment etc. reflecting the quality assurance of their luxurious offerings and distinguish from any pretender - and there are many. If they lose the tiny Australian market - so what? Their patented, time honoured labelling is not - in spite of Federal ignorant "peasant" thinking - a "cheap" sales gimmick. Nat Sherman asks if Australian Government would be proud for Treasury to use photocopies for $AUD banknotes:- after that's all they are worth, presently. (Au.Fed.Gov. politicians can reply to him personally about this comment, care of the American mafia - with full name and correct residential address, please, as he'll send personal representatives to sort out your concerns. Capeesh?) To buy real tobacco in Australia you must visit what few tobacconists still exist, on paltry profit margins and overworked repackaging for Government compliance, knowing exactly what you want - no browsing allowed. Expect to see a couple of plain clothed ATO detectives outside, "clocking" your face, purchase, license plates etc. and then racing into the shop behind you to make sure not so much as a cigar cutter was left in sight...as if you were buying Sudafed or something... (Master Pat Uri has a very funny, true story about travelling 800km to select some cigars on the very day of plain labelling. It is about a select cigar that was hidden from public display and a lovely nude Valley stripper that was not so hidden from public display:- we shall omit for now.) - Low TSNA and carcinogen removed smokeless tobaccos are still banned from commercial supply in Australia, in spite of medical evidence, but legends of oral cancer persist. Cancer has been attributed to use of dark, aged, firecured American moist snuff "chew" - a few cases - but all cases also smoked cigarettes and cigars. Poschl studies find snuff less carcinogenic than hardwood dust. Swedish snus must be freed of carcinogen before it is sold - there it is illegal to sell anything proven to cause cancer, cannabis is a notably not banned, only smoking tobacco. Other ongoing studies have shown snuff users have a lower incidence of contracting colds, rhinovirus infection and influenza - the studies are not concluded yet. Pity as snuff, snus and chew are closest to traditional use, by which American and Australian Aboriginal people have used it for millennia. These people have never been consulted on the matter or invited to discussion - the laws just been imposed on them. Master Pat Uri is actually one of the greatest advocates of anti-smoking and thinks seeing a so-called shaman smoking tailor made cigarettes habitually incredible and without taste. He shares, with other shaman curanderos, eg. camalongueros, notion that cancer is physical manifestation of a bad "astral" parasitic "elemental" "spirit" attached to human "aura" and preying, perverting or poisoning the personal "subtle energy field" by which DNA/RNA are activated and guided for cell repair and cell replacement, and how the immune system "updates" its recognition of damaged cells and pathogens in an ever changing environment. To blame it on one herb or another a gross over simplification. Esoteric ideas, to be sure. - We must conclude on something positive from present Australian situation and here it is:- Over taxed cigarettes means that a genuine real cigar is just as affordable and closer to tradition. Romeo et Juiletta (R&J) if you are a light smoker, White Owl if you are a nicotine head, Bolivar if your taste is somewhat jaded by cigarette use, do not have to be smoked. Place the butt in your cheek and let the nicotine permeate, allaying the need to smoke. When not in use, put it back, toe first, into the cigar tube it was supplied in. Eventually the soggy end will have to the bitten off. This morsel, mixed with a little bicarbonate of soda, or ash, to freebase will have the flavour return and you can continue to "chew". Really "chew" is a bite/squeeze and back into the cheek, you don't eat it. When absolutely flavourless, spit it somewhere to dry it out and keep it. Master Pat Uri has instruction on how to make such "washed" tobacco into shisha to sell to "Greasy"Pete. For meditation, you are going to light the remaining cigar for a few puffs of incense - I know you will. If you can't make a fire with fire sticks, use the sun's rays with a magnifying glass. Cigarette lighters aren't traditional - sacred fire is handmade. Extinguish cigar by putting it back in the tube and capping. Carbon monoxide will extinguish it, and until it does the remaining heat in the tube makes a fine moxa stick for stimulating acupuncture points. Now in tube ash from the head will mix with the soggy toe alleviating the need for freebasing further. Just take it out and continue in this way. The head will always stay capable of relighting. In this way, the cigar will last days, even a week. Keep the cigar tube as Master Pat Uri has instruction on how to make them into a handy, pocket herb vaporiser. Legal even in Australia. And so I end here and bow to you good forum people, may you pursue the Noble Path of wisdom with High blessings. Xian-Qi Wang - Ghost Doctor - for Master Pat Uri. ​

Portulacaria afra Water cress Several Piper spp Warrigal greens Sauropus androgynus sweet leaf

hey I wanna know why is it that scops always seem to flower first of the pack of columnars, well along with spachianus & arboricolas, which are dwarf columnars I guess. Every year my scop is the the first to flower & the only available pollen is usually grandiflorus. The one upside i suppose is the grandi is variegated, which seems to be a very dominant trait in hybridization.....

Nee How! This is Dr DonQui Wang - glove puppet of Phaemon's Dog (who is virtual sexslave of Pat Uri). Mr Uri is very well but is in "sorry time" - he comments that when you get to his age you spend more time burying friends than you do making more. Certainly he would like here to pray for all departed souls; especially the Great Dr A T Shulgin, and Matthew Dawson-Clarke. (Condolences to all family members) It is reported that Matthew died from a badly conducted ayahuasca ceremony - but this is not the complete truth - he died from nicotine poisoning, having been administered the mapacho in a poor setting prior to his tragic demise. Even as Mr Uri maintains ceremonially silence, in respect for posting "secrets" previously, he looks forward to the time when he will write to you, good forum people, again. I am merely his "long distance mirror" to obscure him. The subject of how tobacco is cured cheered him up considerably - but he warns, with respect to Matthew, it is not to be taken lightly. GTS - Green Tobacco Syndrome - or nicotine poisoning is a real threat, and only truly knowledgeable shaman are trained in the antidotes. How to cure tobacco? "How to make really good rabbit stew:- first, catch a good rabbit." Assuming that you have grown good tobacco from appropriate stock, have fertilized and picked each leaf at the correct stage for its type, it is allowed to colour cure. In the correct humidity and light conditions, each leaf, still alive at the cellular level, will undergo enzymatic autolysis - complex carbohydrates, such as starch, sucrose, pectin and hemicellulose, will become simpler, proteins breakdown to amino acids, chlorophyll pigments degrade revealing carotenes and xanthophylls and these will decompose further to polyphenols and carbonyls. For this chemistry to occur, the leaf must retain some water and oxygen or the enzymes will be destroyed, curing will halt and these higher organic molecules will remain fuel for bacteria - most undesirable! The leaf will attain the correct level of "yellowness" where there not enough higher chemicals to feed mould, but still enough to develop the later aroma. Now the leaf can dehydrate to 10% moisture where it is suitable for sorting:- it is colour cured. Suitable for transport - but odourless, flavourless, still most unsuitable for smoking. If you want to chew it - that is fine - but unless you have grown it chlorine free, it will never burn. Kept like this there is very little carcinogen. Mr Pat advises me he and the wonderful people of Imperial recognise over 1200 officially named and patented pedigree of smoking tobacco - with many, many hybrids - and not one is available to the public. Each has its own "curing" type e.g. common brightleaf strains are flue cured quickly then artificially flavoured for cheap Government taxed cigarettes, or they are pulped to paper and then this reconstituted tobacco sheet shredded, flavoured and turned to cigarettes, carcinogens and all. Others can be air cured, pit cured, fire cured, sun cured, bulk cured or flue cured, with intermediate rehydration and fermentation stages, each leaf sorted based on its colour and perfume and all over labour intensive years...Perhaps if you knew what of tobacco you wanted to refine his assistance would be invaluable. Tragically the art of fine tobacco is a guarded secret - and in a paragraph or two impossible to explain. Colour cure it carefully and hang it (air cure) until it smells nice - this may take years - as the nasty alkaloids evaporate leaving the nicotine, the pectins disintegrate revealing the perfume, etc. There are ways to fast track it - wet immersion of cut leaf in sucrose solution - use of ripening apples to produce ethylene - etc. But it is an art as much as a science. Cannabis is much easier. - Remember - burning tobacco to smoke gives you lung cancer - chewing fresh colour cured - NOT aged fire cured e.g. USA snuff - will never hurt you. (Otherwise stick to smoking the 'erb) - Pat Uri blesses you all and Jeh bless too! Respect Y'All! Dr DonQui Wang...(with Phaemon's Dog, Pat Uri and other famous people with scabies)

I've been doing lots in the garden over the last little while. Getting prepped and ready for spring proper to hit. So here's just a little taste of some of it. Way too many things been going on to post about all of them! Have potted up many, many cuts over the last few weeks. Have bought more seedlings and cuts than I really planned to, (I can't help myself). Have also done numerous trades to increase the diversity in my collection too. Have been sowing seeds under lights and have many more yet to get on still! Have gotten a bunch of PC pach ready to graft onto, reckon I have well over 35 tips either rooted and ready or currently rooting for late spring grafts. Some of the PC ready for grafting Got a new "werdermannianus" that originates from the ABG a couple of weeks ago, (which is really a taquimbalensis), since these pics it's been potted up to a very large container. And have taken a few pics lately too. Pachanoi X Bridgesii A seed grown bridgesii that has consistent double spines and is always very round with next to no rib-valleys. Len and a seed grown 4-ribbed pup Some crests after their first watering for the year, (will probably be cutting some of these ones to go on the PC graft stock along with tricho seedlings and some lophs)

Ex-NSA Chief: 'We Kill People Based on Metadata' Meta data is the envelope, not the letter inside it. Which is to say everything about the communication/transaction except the part that gives it context. Don't misread that as me wanting them to store that too... I want no data retention. (Probable retained metadata in orange): (Date: 17:00 21/09/2015) Bob (From: [email protected]) sends Jane (To: [email protected]) an email with the subject "Quote for 1500 units of teddy bears" and body telling her about the bears and asking for more info. He attaches a photo of an idea he had for the teddy bear. (Size: 1.5MB, Filetype: JPG) When Bob gets arrested for "dissenting against the system" and his metadata is pulled, they can now build a web of connections around Bob and prove that he had been in contact with Jane. Without context, Jane is now pulled into the fold. You can bet they will be storing the destination of web connections too. Your last line is spot on though. I feel like I should write a quick guide on this... not that it's hard.

We got a new cat, Mr. Pickles.

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^^^ I'm going to have to completely disagree that drinking DXM is going to make you look like THAT ;)

Plants like the ones I posted above also have a refusal to pup. Whether I've rooted big pieces or small pieces I have yet to see one pup emerge, unless a plant has been cut or a tip has terminated growth, but from it's own accord - nada and I've been working with it for at least 3 years. I'm assuming they have to get to quite an old age (mature roots again?) to do so.