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Does anyone have anything with this substance? Like most I've only come to know of its traditional use in the last few years, outside the curio that is dermorphin. It is for me the most intriguing and promising new spiritual substance since ibogaine. Particularly interested in hearing from Australians with experience locally abroad or wherever

Fuck when the iPad strips my line breaks I write like bullit!!,

Well you know I'm in because you bloody well stole my idea! Of course you did actually take the action ;) Again I'm in for sure, am south of Townsville, and suggest magnetic island. Family have a place over there that can serve as ground zero walking distance to backpacker and camping accommodation. The island is big enough to be convenient but to overtly touristy still. Can sleep 3-5 myself. Any other thoughts on location? So tell me when you guys think? My schedule is fairly open. Def pick a long weekend tho. Planthelper and poisonshroom I'm looking at you guys too!

hey guys, have about a pound of palo santo sticks if anyone is after just a little (there is a local source that's a bit more expensive if you want more which i can point you to). trade only, make an offer (basically interested in everything). cheers -ef

You mustn't have been around much lately, I've given out several hundred ephedra seeds for free to somewhere in the range of 50+ people here. These were expensive to acquire, and I'm giving 25% of gross to watertrade's oxfam drive, another 25% is going to an unemployed friend who helped make it happen, and the rest should about cover my costs + 5/8th's bugger all. My hope is that if we can get enough of these out there then there'll be enough flowering plants locally we don't have to go to great lengths to get them! Please if you have local seed, share it, we want more of these beautiful plants in our country Edit: obviously my cut is in the seed I keep to be clear!

they are v recently imported, as far as i know eph seeds have high germ rates for years; these are 2 months from supplier perhaps. haven't had time to germ any, they just came into my hands today. will sow some tomorrow. the seeds look pretty good to me. maybe that's just the feeling of holding so much eph in your hand though ;)

There's still time to give tribute. edit: <--- relevant avatar people

I have just acquired a bunch of rare ephedras. Unfortunately they were very exxie to get, and my financial situation is not the best at the moment, so I'm going to have to put some up for sale - I've never accepted money for a trade before, feel kind of dirty . 25% of all gross money will go to Jim's Kiva drive, maybe that will help. All are $20 per pack including postage. Ephedra sinica 15 9 bags of 20x seed available Ephedra fragilis 15 10 bags of 20x seed available Ephedra distachya GONE (you can try offering me one a trade) Ephedra equisetina 10 6 bags of 5x seed available Ephedra intermedia 10 5 bags of 5x available Of course if I owe you a favour and you are interested in any of the above let me know. High end (legal) trades are of interest, PM me. cheers guys -ef

Willing to trade for herpes? ;)

A kind member sent me some shiitake dowels a little while back, PM me if you would like to have a play with a few of those. You'll need a special sized drill bit, mallet/hammer, and eucalyptus logs (am i missing anything wb?)

Worse still should you be silly enough to crush the pills.

Did you find find any effect from the d-ribose? I'm guessing it disappointed you, whatever you wanted from it?

I wish people would knock on my door trying to sell me calea's for $2 a pop...

http://www.nordgen.org/sgsv/ You can see what's in there. They have 26 cannabis samples but no caapi, psychotria or erythroxylum when I just had a look. They have quite a few varieties of P. somniferum and a few of P. bracteatum.

I got all excited until I realised you were in the US. :/

Worse yet you've established a lab in your brain to synthesise the stuff from tryptophan, a DMT analog found in milk! I've used the analogy a few times to explain the law to "lay" folk - chocolate contains phenethylamine, which could be argued is an analogue of many amphets, mescaline, etc etc. The carrier is regarded as the total amount of drug, so theoretically the laws as I understand them could be used to prosecute a 250g block of chocolate not unlike 10oz of crystal meth if someone chose to really throw the book. Yes, unashamedly a profile law, no two ways about it. :/ One reliable mark of a "first world" society is that police corruption is only accessible to the rich.

it's always time to be sending ph good vibes! (some going out your way jwerta, whatever you do this fine day )

got my luna's ph, more good vibes going your way :D

forget it, get RR's videos instead. they're extremely well done and will help you get around all this stuff in no time. and seriously google things like agar, you'll learn a lot very quickly

Trailblazer I take it a plant that well established produces viable seed?? That's a minor ethno wet dream for many around these parts!

I'll throw in an Amazonian print for microscopy, a small but healthy iboga, 10x Acacia phlebophylla seed, and 4x Acacia peuce seed.</p> The last one is a <em>very rare</em> desert acacia, collected by a friend on a recent university research expedition. I'm told it grows to about 20m with tap roots as deep as 80m to access deep water planes. Germination rates are reported very high with simple cold water soaking overnight - no need for scarification. I've been considering growing them in lengths of PVC pipe with a mostly perlite soil mix, very free draining http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=8301 It's a threatened species with quite limited distribution, consider it an act of conservation to grow it edit: OK the surprise is official. My contribution is now a seven species special: 20x Ephedra sinica, 20x Ephedra fragilis, 2x Ephedra distachya, 5x Ephedra intermedia, 5x Ephedra equisentenia, 10x Ephedra viridis, 10x Ephedra nevadensis, total of 72 seeds.

another time the forum needs a "love" button as well as a "like".

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Thanks for all your efforts Greg. Although we don't have any laws on the books in the same way the US does, i think religious freedom might actually be a viable angle. In the modern world, many less people participate in formal religion but in my experience most people are still spiritual despite our frequent cynicism regarding cynicism as a plague of the era. Or maybe that whole line is a little optimistic. One thing that would make things interesting is that pituri and corkwood for example would be illegal since trope containing plants are in theory right? So little is known, at least by white man, of murri intoxicants that the elders might even be able to assist our cause right now, by establishing traditional plant use as at least protected for their use. That's a foot in the door for the use of sacrements other than booze/blood in religion in general. Virtually all traditional sacrament use stopped with the introduction of spirits in this country, of which many communities are now fighting tooth and nail to restrict availability. There is a pretty damn strong argument to encourage use of things like pituri to at least offset the massive alcohol, kava, inhalant, cannabis, and other dependencies which plague so much of their society today. IIRC, before 1850 or pituri was so popular there were well established trade routes from known (but secret) "good" plants of SWQ which ran massive quantities all the way up to the Torres Strait. I have never seen a return to traditional intoxicants suggested as a solution to the substance problems the ATSI community faces, unless you count the obviously misguided attempt to introduce yet another intoxicant, kava which did little more than teach people how to mix downers. Powder is generally mixed directly with rum in my area, no other preparation is made AFAIK. But I'm a white guy and obviously no expert. Actually speaking of kava, it deserves more clarification and perhaps even local cultivation regarding it's legality. Both it and qat are permissible within certain quantities for what would seem like even just vaguely traditional/cultural reasons, not at all grounded in religion or even ethnicity. You could say that south american maté is sort of tolerated as well. Some of these are extremely illegal drugs which when intended for traditional use are seen as not worth battling perhaps. Fighting on basis of not just culture but religion has to be even more powerful. Especially if we end out with an even more conservative federal government. As UDV and others have helped spread aya centric religious ceremony into urban areas in Brazil for 20 years now, I wonder how common it is for expats living here to have previously practiced in a sacramental light church before? One of the most intriguing things for me is to see how much sacred knowledge they would be willing to pass on if the elders thought this would be a productive direction to take communities in. I find it extremely unlikely that in 40k years on the most DMT rich continent in the world nobody worked out how to do anything with it. Torston, others - out of curiosity, what kind of legal hurdles would one face if attempting to establish a kava farm in Australia right now? (oh what a dream, I'm proud to be keeping one plant alive!) Would it be harder than going through the process to grow low-thc hemp, tobacco or poppies for example? Or since these all have strong systems established around them already is it a completely unknown area? I've often wondered what issues one would face if attempting to grow other powerful but legal sacrements commercially. Iboga is tricky territory I know, but many many others things like other salvia species, silene capensis, that hodgkinsine containing plant, various "wild daggas" and animal appendages, heimia, zornia, calea sceletium and countless legal tcm and ayurvedic products which could be grown quite easily in many, many parts of the country on relatively crappy land. These I assume are currently mostly sourced in bulk from overseas? Edit: OR, more than six months on now, the best option is to simply be thankful that no media frenzy has erupted and perhaps fighting it will only bring more attention that we don't really want. i love my babies :/

Since it's state level we can buy it interstate and continue to take it at our own risk (although I don't currently take it myself, it's too damn expensive and I can't be arsed sourcing powder). I guess this makes griffonia plants and seeds illegal too, good to know the list is growing This has to have been a legislative slip up that will be rapidly fixed, given that 5-htp was an S3-type product available by first talking with a naturopath type person only. There would have been an uproar from health professionals had there been a deliberate move to get 5-HTP off the shelves, surely... I haven't heard about any of this through pharmacist friends for example. Also, I cannot think of anything for which 5-htp would be a particularly convenient precursor. It's close to serotonin obviously, but that's no fun directly. Loosely speaking what are the schedules in QLD? One list of molecules and life forms for which they just take you out the back with a shottie, and another for which a more grandiose public spectacle is deemed necessary?