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I'm not entirely convinced that there were not some underlying mental health issues here. She worked as a psychologist; a stressful job that often negatively impacts on the clinician. Like police and other front line workers, psychologist often work for years and seem 'fine', before having sudden breakdowns. There's also a lot of pressure on people not to be unwell. She was seeking out shrooms while in her 70s. While ostensibly 'training' to help others, I would be unsurprised if she was actually seeking out this training as a form of therapy for herself.

I once participated in a (different) forum, that had people adding MSG to their microbrews, in the hope that the yeast would then convert some of the added MSG into GHB along-side the alcohol. This wasn't as wrong-headed as it sounds, since trace amounts of GHB is sometimes found in wines. Anyway, I don't remember anyone being able to show that this works; but this thread reminded me a bit of that other thread. Happy brewing everyone!

Gone

Same as here then

I would suggest it's more an extremely low risk tolerance driven by politics and community attitudes.

Does erowid still add things to their experience vaults? Might be good to document given it's traditional use, even if the experience is "no effect"

Nevermind

Cocaine is clearly the only responsible choice...

First lesson was that DMT occurs in the bark of many acacias. This would have been around 1998 or 1999 and the forum looked very different back then (pretty sure it was still SAB).

I've just been reading about this (in fact, it's my reason for checking SAB today). In both cases it is clear the organisers decided not to bring in medical assistance when they clearly should have (and were probably hoping these people would just pull through so they could avoid outside scrutiny and some difficult conversations). This Guardian report on Jarrad Antonovich is saying that after his death, one of the people involved told his partner that he died "beautifully" and that “the koalas were making a special sound known to the Elders when the land accepts a spirit”. Dickheads.

Cheers, but hoping for domestic.

I'll throw my hat in the ring for S Recognita seeds. Good for a seed swap, or $.

Hey, here's a picture Suggest you caption it "Portobello Mafia". If you get sick of people asking what it means, set up a QR code pointed at this link and have it tattooed somewhere else on your body.

SAB did sell a product called 'Zonk' that worked amazingly. It hasn't been available for some time (or so I believe), but you might find something of interest in its ingredient list (pasted below). "Contains extracts of Scullcap, Blue Lotus, Hops and Celandine."

Yep, I got the 404s, so it's not just you. Can't claim any insight into what the issue was.