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Last time i'll bring this topic up.

thank you all. i did try smoking a.columbrina. just tasted like shit is all, didn't have the courage to snuff it. i roasted them briefly in a pan over a gas flame and ground them in a mortice and pestle (sp.?) put it in a pipe and lit up. have tried over time to buy a 'freebase' type pipe. any ideas? just checked and removed them from the water. they're really soft and when squeezed a yellow pus is excreted. the voacanga is a really hard woody type of seed. even after two weeks in warm water they are still hard. sorry, i lied about the course sharp sand. i haven't tried it for these, just thought i throw it in. my interpretation of course sharp sand is river/creek sand? skim the top layer off where the finer particles settle to the bottom of the heap. does that sound like the right type of sand everyone else uses? the peganum i've tried three times now (fourth lot of seeds just germinating now) the first were the best (about spring ) but as luck had it the tray was in line with sheets on the clothesline and i came home to find them all over the lawn. are they a slow growing plant once the germinate? because i've got the TINIEST seedlings still going that are about three months old. and i consider that i'm not a COMPLETE failure when it comes to the garden.

If anyone can help me with this i'd appreciate it. with the anadenanthera colubrina (what a mouthful) i got these off the boards through Torsten and tried the grinding and etc. to no avail, so i thought i'd try and germinate some. put them in a pot and am waiting. also put some in water and placed on a heatmat. these have swollen to big fatty looking things and im wondering if they split open? or am i just dreaming trying to get these things going? The voacanga i've tried numerous times to get happening and again with the water on the heat mat. this seemed to have some sort of result and twice i've seen 'tails' protuding on two seeds. once i managed to get one out of the water and into a pot but i think i MAY have damaged the seed when doing this. the other one with a tail just seemed to break off when i was swirling the water gently. Now i kow Torsten will probably say 'course sharp sand' but i've had no luck with that. The OTHER thing i can't do (not the only other thing) is get peganum harmala to grow. i've tried plenty and had lots of seedlings but they never progress beyond that stage. I'd really like to buy an established and healthy plant if i can find one as i can't seem to get the bloody things beyond this point. Thanks for any suggestions.

I received an invitation in the mail yesterday to the inaugural vic agm of this mob. One thing that caught my eye on the flyer was they want to legalise drug use. they have a web site so i visited it. http://www.ldp.org.au/federal/policies.jsp unfortunately they want to do other things i don't agree with.(and i'm borderline anarchist anyway) just thought someone may be interested enough to spit some venom about this particular area of our society.

that's pretty scary stuff. i can imagine this person while in a coma was actually trapped in salvia land. it sounds like the plot to a good book, although i hope lady salvia isn't venting her anger at him/her. i wouldn't fancy being unable to return from a seemingly powerful and potentially vindictive entities realm. (of terror)

bringing the worms out of the woodwork. eh. when i was younger (much younger) i'd take nearly anything offered me. just to get off. i was 19 when i had my first trip. in darwin and going out to the local bikies haunt for a party. the bloke i was living with said 'have this trip'. so i did. back then i didn't care what you were or weren't supposed to do, i just wanted to get off. so of course, everthing else went with it. i did some really bad things that night and was lucky not to have been bashed. my mate i found out next day wasn't so lucky. NOW (20+ years on) reasons are different. i want to unlock doors. try to explore what is out there or in there that i can't seem to reach in any other way. i worry occassionally that i might overstep the mark and end up in some sort of never land and develop some form of mental problem. well, another one anyway. my peers after our early experimentations (is that a word?) got 'windy' of these things and stayed with the soft stuff so to speak, so i found myself years later trying to learn of these things on my own. thank god for you people! expanding consciousness, sounds like a good term. or trying to find the answers to all the questions that don't fit with everyday logic. i love being able to see things that i know i wouldn't have been able to see or experience if i didn't do these things. it makes me feel sad to think that so many people are missing so much beauty. and trying to explain to narrow minded people the things that are 'out there' is really hard. i marvel at how selective most people are in their sense of what is right and wrong. like people who smoke SHITLOADS of mj or alchoholics talking and moralising about this sort of thing. funny how people are prepared to bend the rules to suit there own circumstances. sorry mostly all off topic.

I have a bottle of syrian rue extract that has been sitting in a dark place for about a year now. Labelled 'contains less than 0.1% alkaloids' (sab supplied) There was a post on these boards many moons ago where someone asked as to the viability? of this extract after an extended period. There was some mention of harmine and harmaline changing places, but my foggy brain can't recall the exact gist of what was said or the recomendation in relation to its usage considering its age. Could someone please enlighten me. Many thanks in advance.

Whatever happened to OUR democrats? http://www.overgrow.com/edge/showthread.ph...7625#post817625 We seem to be going in opposite directions. Was OUR 'new law' passed through the senate? Perhaps there's been a link shown to salvia use and terrorism. Sorry i've just realised the link has been there all the time. If you go against archaic laws, you're terrorised by your own kind. Sort of like the taliban regime treated their constituents.