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    I just bought 200g of Vanuatu kava from an online Australian retailer, it's supposed to be good waqa grade but I'll report back here either way, good or meh.

    Now that it's legal to commercially import it again I have hopes the quality will be good.

     

    I have bought a few lots from various backyard grey market sellers in the last few years, and it was weak each time.

     

    This seller has it for $179/kg which isn't cheap by any stretch, but the grey market was up to $200/kg or more and it was a total waste of money.

    Fingers crossed...been years since I've had a decent kava session! 

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    Kava is almost harder to get than cannabis lately, at least for half decent grade anyway. And it's stupidly expensive now also. I have tried the OTC extracts in tablet form and they are useless.

    Anxiety is one of those things that you need to get to the root cause of so you can address it. Treatment is hit and miss. Mindfulness can be helpful to get through severe episodes, but as long as the root cause remains, it's not going away.

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    To be honest, it sounds to me like she's be better off without those people in her life. But that's a pretty glib view of the situation and I sympathise deeply.

    Gosh, surely at 57 years of age, people would just let someone make decisions about their own life without interference...

    I would suggest she gets a consultation to acquire a script for legal medical cannabis and then tell them all to fuck off. There are many providers who will take care of the paperwork for a pretty small fee and it sounds like she would definitely qualify.

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    3 hours ago, SirLSD said:

    was there anything about different stages of leaf growth? ie newly sprouted leaves from tips that didnt exist a week ago, vs leaves that have been on the tree for weeks or months vs leaves that fall off the tree naturally in winter when they go dormant?

    also does anyone know what the major bulk producers do for their international exports to the US etc? do they have people picking leaves like the tea industry does for tea leaves which are then dried and ground into a powder? do they remove the leaf vein/stem, or just grind everything to save time? i am interested as i believe they export thousands of kg of dried powdered leaf to the US and around the world.

    Older more mature leaves  > younger leaves. I dont know about how picking is done in places like indo and Thailand, Rev would know but hes banned i think... id assume because labour is so cheap in these countries it would be done by hand.

    There are various drying and processing methods to produce different end products, such as sun curing, but it shouldn't make any major difference to the strength.

    Removing the central vein and petiole makes a big difference to how fine you can get your powder, unless you want to grind with a mortar and pestle or something. Its much easier to whizz in something like a magic bullet then sift through a screen to remove any fibrous stuff, and repeat until you really get nothing but fibrous stems etc.

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    12 hours ago, FancyPants said:

    It would be really interesting to know what’s rooted in materiality effect and what is changed from the immaterial. Maybe there are mechanisms that the power of thought exemplifies, that we just don’t know the answer yet?

     

    good idea, WC :D

     

    im too whack to think properly also

    There is no distinction at a quantum level, you cannot separate the observer from the observed. Modern science makes allowance for what Einstein dismissed as "spooky action at a distance". 

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    Woody cuts of caapi tend to root better in a potting medium like coir with some hormone powder, but you need warm weather or it's doomed enterprise.

    Greener/thinner more pliable cuttings root up just fine, maybe even better, in a glass of water, and don't seem to be as reluctant in cooler weather. An aero cloner will definitely speed the process up if you feel like you want a new toy.

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    I've always been on the pack-annoy side. But at the end of the day, that's a relatively recent imposition of nomenclature. We should probably stop labelling our plants with species at all. Genus Trichocereus "name/clone/locality" is enough, but opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one...

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    I can help you with brahmi.

    Gotu kola seems to be plagued with mis-id'ed specimens, mostly Hydrocotyle spp.

    Hydrocotyle/pennywort is the bane of my garden. It spreads by underground runners EVERYWHERE!!! It's edible, and tastes a little of dill apiole, so I live with it in case of the apocalypse.

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