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    Hey mate Lophophora species like many cactus need a dry period during their winter dormancy phase.

    If you do a bit of a search around these parts and the web you'll find plenty of useful growing info.

    Welcome to the forums :)

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    Gtarman, with regards to prohibition in the communities(dry zones), regardless of the substance, alchohol, kava, it's the communities themselves which decide. There is consultation with the authorities(federal police and government ministers) who then support the communities decision and help to inforce it.

    As far as it being addictive and making comparisons to alcohol... Hmm how do I explain?? If we were to look at kava's abuse potential vs alcohol's in the wider community, or in communities that had had a long history of it's use from an ethnobotanical point of view, you would come to very different conclusions as to its abuse potential than if you were to do a study in a remote aboriginal community in arnhem land.

    These people due to many factors, social, genetics, have a very high risk of substance abuse. There livers also lack the ability to process toxins like alcohol, fatty foods and i'd bet kava like white Australians. Kava in these particular communities has many parallels to alcohol in regards to detrimental effects to the individual and the community as a whole.

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    With regards to bringing two kg into the country my understanding is that that is a customs law. The individual states differ.. QLD for example the dried root is illegal. Which means at Brisbane airport the customs officers will let you through with it as your not breaking any customs laws but the state police officer that pulls you over on your way home will charge you for it as it's his job to enforce the state legislation. There are lots of examples legally speaking of discrepancies between different policing/governing bodies in Australia. State, federal, customs?? It all gets very convoluted. Seeds are a good eg. What customs is cool with the state may not be and visa versa. Not to mention Federal. Eh, It's to early for this, I need coffee :) .

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    Kava is illegal in the NT because it is a drug of abuse in SOME of the aboriginal communities. Some of the arnham land indigenous embraced it as a alternative to alcohol after being introduced to it after a cultural exchange with the islanders. For a time it was supported by the NT government, their where legal indigenous run NT supported Kava huts up there. It quickly became a drug of abuse in the same way that alcohol has and the community elders with the support of the government banned it/made it illegal. This action of course as all prohibition does caused a black market to develop. They can still get Kava it's just 100 the price. The "runners" that are smuggling kava into these communities are no better than the grog runners. Profiting off seriously disadvantaged people. Ive seen first hand the effect kava has had on some of the indigenous communities and it's just as bad as alchohol. It should be noted that some of the communities said no at the start in response the Territory's kava huts..The reason being that they had already seen first hand the effect of alcohol on their people and way of life and weren't keen to repeat the experiment.

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    I'd say transplant shock given you've only just repotted.

    I usually heavily prune back the foliage of any plant before repotting.

    But yeah if planting out isn't an option i'd go a large pot given it's a tree.

    For now i'd just leave it be and see how it goes. Maybe just trim the foliage a bit?

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