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Hi planthelper. I've been growing bonsai for over ten years and am experienced with plant care though I have much still to learn. And yes I understand what you are saying my friend and hope to contribute more here and enjoy learning from you all. Cheers.

Hi Bacchant. It's a fair suggestion. I started in this quite a while back and have had my fair share of experience with a variety of things. Started with growing my own hemp and even though I never grew them onto buds, the leaves and tips of the plants I did grow blew away any and all of any commercial stuff I'd ever smoked. I grew my own poppies shortly after. I grew about 20 plants starting from a supermarket poppy packet that had thousands of seeds and they grew into white poppies with purple bases. I collected enough opium that when I had dried and processed it by boiling and filtering I had about half a medicine cup full of powdered smokable opium. I used that up over 9 months in what were very enjoyable sessions. Since then I've been growing khat and some peyote. The khat plant has reached waist height from a single cutting and has self layered itself into 3 more plants besides the first. Unfortunately I don't like the powdery taste from the young leaves to really enjoy it. It's also hit and miss regarding their activity. Some months it will be very strong and others it's a waste of time. The peyote is something I'm hoping will be big enough after a few years to become something I can enjoy over a summer. I stopped smoking several years ago and don't want to smoke any other botanicals etc. Some of the best experiences for me though was with pharmaceuticals. I've experienced the pleasure of doing 1 gram of pure uncut cocaine over a weekend. But it was pure fluff. Nothing learned from it at all. The king in that regard was ketamine. My experience with that went over several months and the insights I got into the world and the universe through that were profound. I went into it a pure psychonaut. Someone wanting the thrill of a trip and came out a different person who saw things in a different way. I know it sounds cliched, but when you actually fly over cities of the world and come back from each experience with a tentative grip on some otherwise incomprehensible truths it affects you in deep ways. Along the way I've developed an interest in bonsai and growing plants and my interest in the E novo stems from that as much as anything else. Cheers.

One of the biggest drawbacks for me is that if I don't have caffeine by lunchtime then I will start getting a headache. Flavour is important for me. I used to drink tea black with no sugar, but nowadays have it with just milk and again no sugar. Milk binds the tannins and makes it stain teeth less. I haven't been a big coffee drinker but only lately have I gotten into some of the newer products. I like the French made "Noir" and "Cap Columbie" flavours made by Nestle for what its worth.

That's cool. I've read past posts and have hit a dead end for the time being. So can anyone steer me in the right direction here? Thanks in advance.

I'm all for healthy capitalism, so I'm prepared to reward anyone for their help. The primary aim is to make it more available to those who want it. I buy plants all the time and realise the time and effort that goes into growing them and keeping them healthy so I have no problems with people expecting adequate compensation for that. Anyhow, the philosophical and legal sides will always be controversial. Again any help would be greatly appreciated and rewarded. Cheers.

The truth is that Australia is full of introduced species. Driving up and down the Pacific highway you see thousands of escaped Radiata pines and other introduced bushes. I honestly can't see why this plant would be any different in terms of its impact. Maybe people are worried about Koalas not sleeping 18+ hours ;)

Hi Pala, Opium and opiates aren't 'hallucinogens' in the usual sense of the word, like LSD or mescaline for example. They can however bring on 'hypnagogic hallucinations' which are the lucid type dream scenes one gets in the state between wakefullness and sleep. A single oral dose of opium could be strong enough to cause these but you have to remember that Coleridge probably took a tincture of opium ie. what was called LAUDANUM which contained ethahol also and may have contributed. Cheers.