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    9 hours ago, Glaukus said:

    I would suggest she gets a consultation to acquire a script for legal medical cannabis

    I think that's the ticket. She's using the wrong kind of paper (Tally Ho) when what she needs is a pharmacy script. And the blessing of a medical professional. 

    In family disputes, the legal system including police can be put to work on behalf of well-heeled folk who know how to pull strings. Lawyers for wealthy families exploit every avenue of borderline harassment. Or so I'm reliably informed.

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    Great to see that ethics (and distributive justice) should be a focus of the paper (according to its abstract):

     

    The collection of plant material from the Eremophila species was carried out according to a Bioprospecting Agreement with the Government of Western Australia. We recognize that several Eremophila species hold immense cultural significance to Australia's First Peoples. In spite of our best intentions of ensuring that new knowledge gained about the genus Eremophila and any potential future benefits are shared in an equitable manner in accordance with the Nagoya protocol, we encounter serious dilemmas and potential conflicts in making benefit sharing with Australia's First Peoples a reality.

     

  6. Posted · Edited by fyzygy

    This book includes a chapter by Stanley Krippner (one of the participants in Leary's pioneering Easter Sunday psilocybin experiments) on the relationship of Alan Watts to psychedelic culture and experience, the best account I've come across. Includes a contribution by Ralph Metzner too. 

     

    https://au1lib.org/book/6017792/9b0177

     

    Alan Watts in his own words (includes four lectures pertaining to psychedelic experience): https://au1lib.org/book/5341893/d5c01a

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    On 31/05/2022 at 9:40 AM, jahliveforever said:

    Pretty sure its a tersheckii but i could be wrong, looking very healthy, what did yiu want for a trade

     

    No trade necessary, although beneficial plant/medicines are always welcome. 

  9. Posted

    I guess there could be a few cannabis tourism hotspots in Australia too, some day. But the Commonwealth gifting citizens cannabis plants? Over Big Pharma's dead body...

     

    52 minutes ago, Fenris said:

    Maybe a sign of things to come.

     

  11. Posted

    Any weed is just a plant out of place -- I think Goethe might have said it first?  For example, suburban lawn grass. What vast sums of energy must be wasted on its upkeep. And gorse: what an aggressive menace to the Australian landscape, exploding seed pods and all. 

     

    ^ I think there may be (at least) two different species referred to as Cat's Claw? 

     

    ^ What's wrong with Coleus? There are some lovely native (and exotic) varieties, with potential benefits. 

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    On 08/06/2022 at 9:23 PM, Trip said:

    Still chasing catha edulis if anyone can help? Cheers.

    PM me if you're interested in a larger, well established plant (red variety) ex Melbourne. 

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    Anything that can be cloned in an aeroponic cloner can be done in a glass of water on a windowsill, and vice-versa. With sufficient inputs of consumable parts, energy, and maintenance, the aeroponic cloner can get the job done quicker, for high turnovers. In order for it to be economically viable, you'd probably want to be turning over a lot of soft herbs for the black market. Unless you need significant volumes of clones, or don't have time to wait for nature, I doubt that a cloning machine is anything but overkill. At least, that's my experience based on the short time I had a cloning machine, before passing it on. Even high-quantity growers of the lucrative soft herbs variety, that I know of, avoid the aeroponic system and use a passive mini greenhouse and seedling mat instead. 

     

    I have no experience propagating caapi. But have used an aeroponic cloning system. The neoprene collars won't accommodate a salvia d. stem, that's for sure. Caapi probably no worries - as long as it's the kind of plant that readily roots in water anyway. Khat actually looked promising, but I didn't have a few months of noisy operation to bother finding out. Calea_z. worked pretty well; although still no roots after 1 week in the cloning machine, it potted on fine. 

     

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    There is some dispute within my own family as to the "correct" pronunciation of our inherited surname. 

     

    According to Cactus Kate: Derivation of the name pachanoi This page from The Cactaceae documents the pronunciation of "pachanoi" - because San Pedro was named after Abelardo Pachano, a surname pronounced "Pah-CHAN-oh" - and not "pack-a-not, or pack-ANNOY" as some believe. https://www.trichocereus.com/growing-forum.html

     

    But there is little real-world consensus: 

     

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    These rules [of pronunciation] cannot satisfactorily be applied to all generic names and specific epithets commemorating persons. About 80 per cent of generic names and 30 per cent of specific epithets come from languages other than Latin and Greek. A simple and consistent method of pronouncing them does not exist, because different peoples use the same letters for different sounds and different letters for the same sounds. ... The ideal method with most names commemorating persons is to pronounce them as nearly as possible like the original name but with a Latin ending. 

     

    --W. Stearn, Botanical Latin

     

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    Botanical Latin is essentially a written language, but the scientific names of plants often occur in speech. How they are pronounced really matters little provided they sound pleasant and are understood by all concerned. This is most likely to be attained by pronouncing them in accordance with the rules of classical Latin pronunciation. There are, however, several systems, since people tend to pronounce Latin words by analogy with words of their own language. ...

     

    In English-speaking countries there exist two main systems, the traditional English pronunciation generally used by gardeners and botanists and the 'reformed' or 'restored' academic pronunciation adapted by classical scholars as presenting 'a reasonably close approximation to the actual songs of the language as spoken by educated Romans.' ...

     

    The ending -ii or iae of most epithets commemorating persons ... creates difficulty if the rules of Latin accentuation are applied strictly, since the accent will then fall on the syllable before the -ii or iae, which is not its usual place in most personal names. 

     

    -- W. Stearn, Botanical Latin. 

     

    pash-a-NO-eye, then? 

     

     

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