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Import Permit Fees (where applicable) – Category 2 This commodity is classified as a Category 2 assessment for the purposes of determining the Import Permit fee rate that applies. The fee rate is $80.00 (for any assessment period up to 1 hour) and $40.00 for each quarter hour, or part of a quarter hour, after the 1-hour period. Note that in addition to the assessment fee, an electronic lodgement fee of $85.00 or a manual lodgement fee of $150.00 also applies. "With permit fees, lodgement fees, inspection fees etc and your supplier will have to get a phytosanitary certificate which will cost about the same as most of the spawn on the link you posted." Your looking at the wrong category its actualy much more expensive.

Where abouts or what climate in QLD?, it is a pretty big state. If your trying in cairns I say forget about it I have heard rumours of the border ranges... I reckon stanthorpe area would be a goer anywhere were you still get a decent frost... Look into other species ovoid's might extend the range some subaeruginascens might push it a little further, the possibiities... Good luck with it

Nice stuff, realy slick. Have you thought about doing something like stamets 'life box' with the cardboard packaging?, maybe something down the line...

Great work Bro How will you be selling them?, by the looks of it your going for more than just markets? Is your sub a closely guarded formula or can you share? "are these ones edible?" I find that intriguing?, as oposed to ornamental? or ...? , I would have thought oysters would have a bit of a rep as a choice edible?, you might have some marketing to do... All the best with your endeavours Bro, keep it up

Yeah looks Super Pedro to me, thats where Super Pedro comes from too I find it quite interesting you think it's different considering all the debate regarding the synonymity of these type of plants, lance, cordobensis, spiny scop etc.maybe they are all clones or or I have been thinking of late maybe they came from a highly homogenous batch of seeds. At any rate you seen to have an extreme fascination with dolls

I have been wanting to play with one of these for a while, but currently do'nt have the opportunity, on special at the moment aswell. fantastic looking site, I've been watching for a while , anyone have experience with these guys? "Fungi's Big Bucket of Giant Mushrooms is an Australian first. Packed with King Stropharia spawn, the bucket contains everything you need to get your garden patch producing GIANT mushrooms in your garden. Imagine GIANT mushrooms as big as 20cm tall and 30cm across. Your mushroom patch can produce for extended periods over several years." http://www.fungi.net.au/grow_your_own_mushrooms/shop.html

Harrisia spp is listed in 3 states in the weednet PDF Harrisia spp. Cereus spp., Eriocereus spp. Harrisia cactus moonlight cactus, snake cactus, NSW C4(S), WA Check C1(h), QLD C1(h) http://www.weeds.org...cs/weednet6.pdf Then you have to lokk up your states relevant legislation to find what the key means in NSW C4 is: Class 4 Plants that pose a potentially serious threat to primary production, the environment or human health, are widely distributed in an area to which the order applies and are likely to spread in the area or to another area. The growth of the plant must be managed in a manner that reduces its numbers spread and incidence and continuously inhibits its reproduction* http://www.dpi.nsw.g...eeds/definition Quite suprised to see Cereus spp is used as a synoym for Harrisia spp & Eriocereus spp, pretty stupid if you ask me & realy highlights the arbitrary nature of such lazy legislation. The weednet PDF is the best tool I know of for 'weeds' within aus, if you know of anything better let us know.

http://www.shaman-australis.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=27892&hl=submission&fromsearch=1

I'll take your dicks Agreed no evidence & the wagers squashed.

A lot of people seem to be focused on the cap colour, but from my experience with a related woodlover species I have seen that sort of colouration, to my eye it is not red or orange but a dark caramel. Looking at the stem it looks very psilo to me & not at all stroph. I will put a foot of Eileen on it Zac... I do'nt think anyone is being meanspirited here but can understand you being frustrated myco, just chill man & take better pics when its ready & in any event humble pie does'nt taste that bad especialy when its shared

& lasts 1/10th the time. Meth has more bang for buck does'nt it?, $600 a gram on SR... I did not like that much either Distracted, but its a complex issue, cocaine when in coca leaves is not very harmful at all but I agree when you rock it up you increase its harm potential.

"The NSW government must take over the illicit drug markets, control the distribution of drugs and tax the proceeds if it wants to stem turf wars over drug profits, according to the former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Nicholas Cowdery QC dismissed calls for longer jail terms for serious offences related to gang-related shootings in NSW, saying maximum penalties for shooting offences were already “severe” and that had not stopped the offending. “It is the cause of the shootings that really needs to be addressed - turf wars over drug profits. "In my view the legislation is appropriate – it covers all the circumstances in which firearms might feature illegally and gives adequate scope to police to deal with these events,” said Cowdery, adding that even if longer jail terms were imposed for more serious offences, the problem could reappear after release from slightly longer sentences. The maximum penalty for “firing at a dwelling” increased from 14 to 16 years when the Crimes Amendment (Consorting and Organised Crime) Bill 2012 recieved assent on March 14. NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell said he wanted to ensure police had the resources and powers they needed to deal “severely'' with gun crime and that he hadn’t ruled out mandatory minimum sentencing. Cowdery argued that neither higher nor mandatory minimum penalties will stop shooting offences. “The perpetrators don’t expect to be caught, much less punished, when they deliberately go out to shoot firearms. They do not stop to think about prescribed penalties and make some sort of cost/benefit analysis of their behaviour on that basis,” he said. “Mandatory sentences create injustice, in any event, and do not deter offenders either.” A new approach to drugs Despite the calls of eminent Australians, including Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr, for an end to the 40-year “war on drugs”, the Government is not yet heeding calls for drug use and addiction to be dealt with in the health and social systems, according to Cowdery. “When we have that conversation and a significant body of public opinion supporting change builds up, then politicians must heed the calls,” said Cowdery, who has suggested a number of alternative measures, including the re-authorisation of heroin for pain relief, which was banned in 1953, to address addiction. “We could allow the medicinal use of cannabis and then its general supply, bearing in mind that naturally-grown weed is less harmful than tobacco. We could then move on to other drugs: cocaine is not very harmful and could bring in some revenue; amphetamines really do need to be state-supplied,” he said, adding that, at present, amphetamines are mostly distributed by bikie gangs who make enormous profits from the trade and go to war to protect their turfs. Figures from the latest NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) report also show the offence of “use/possess amphetamines” is up 25.8 per cent, from 2,866 incidents in 2010 to 3,606 in 2011. BOCSAR Director, Dr Don Weatherburn, commented that the upward trend closely mirrors the overdose rate. “Over the last couple of years we’ve seen substantial increases in both emergency department admissions for amphetamine overdose and increases in use/possess amphetamines arrests. The arrests tend to lag behind the overdoses,” said Weatherburn. Cowdery said the fact that the drug market is unregulated means consumers don’t really know what they are getting and the risk of overdose is high. “Dealing with drugs not through the criminal law, but as a health and social issue, is the only effective way of minimising the harms now done,” he claimed. While age restrictions and measures of control would need to be put in place for any legislated regulation of drugs, Cowdery said that would not be difficult. “The criminal law can then be left to deal with the bootleggers and those, fewer and less organised, people who will continue to try to profit outside the regulated and controlled markets,” he said. “A combination of strategies can be made to work.”" http://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/news/legalise-drugs-to-put-stop-to-shootings

Yes by federal agents or when federal agents are accompyning state agents when they have violated federal law. Well thats the official line anyway, poilitics whod a thunk it... Anyway it suposed to be about gay marriage. Will it hange anything?, marriage laws are state based in the US are'nt they?, thats why bush could not federaly ban it?

Hoyts, Masterfood ;) Aussie grown

They are roots, they just get a scabby type sheaf covering around them if they do'nt find soil & are exposed to the elements. It starts as you say like a spikey little bit at the root tip. I have removed the sheaf on some before & it looks as if the roots are just dormant but raring to go inside.

Maybe someone should share a spliff with his daughters... About time, the gays deserve to be as miserable as everyone else...

I think they could have also worked the word 'chronic' in there aswell. Anybody have acces to the article?, could you let us know just how chronic the levels of THC administered were? Also THC is a long way from Cannabis which contains a large array of cannabinoids not just THC. Fair enough kalika, I think its tricky, waiting until kids are 18 before they use alcohol does not seem to have a positive effect in our society, as once kids turn 18 it seems to be a mad rush to make up for lost time or something. I think educating & maybe even some level of exposure done in the correct way with the emphasis on use not abuse to children might lessen some of the adverse effects of drugs. It seems to work much better in france with alcohol for instance.

Surely they could have somehow worked the word 'mice' into the article if not the title but it probly would not have given them the sensationalist effect they were looking for. "Chronic Adolescent Exposure to Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol in COMT Mutant Mice: Impact on Indices of Dopaminergic, Endocannabinoid and GABAergic Pathways Áine T Behan, Magdalena Hryniewiecka, Colm M P O'Tuathaigh, Anthony Kinsella, Mary Cannon, Maria Karayiorgou, Joseph A Gogos, John L Waddington and David R Cotter Abstract Cannabis use confers a two-fold increase in risk for psychosis, with adolescent use conferring an even greater risk. A high-low activity polymorphism in catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT), a gene encoding the COMT enzyme involved in dopamine clearance in the brain, may interact with adolescent cannabis exposure to increase risk for schizophrenia. The impact of such an interaction on central neurotransmitter pathways implicated in schizophrenia is unknown. Male mice with knockout of the COMT gene were treated chronically with delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) during adolescence (postnatal day 32–52). We measured the size and density of GABAergic cells and the protein expression of cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1R) in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and hippocampus (HPC) in knockout mice relative to heterozygous mutants and wild-type controls. Size and density of dopaminergic neurons was also assessed in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) across the genotypes. COMT genotype × THC treatment interactions were observed for: (1) dopaminergic cell size in the VTA, (2) CB1R protein expression in the HPC, and (3) parvalbumin (PV) cell size in the PFC. No effects of adolescent THC treatment were observed for PV and dopaminergic cell density across the COMT genotypes. COMT genotype modulates the effects of chronic THC administration during adolescence on indices of neurotransmitter function in the brain. These findings illuminate how COMT deletion and adolescent cannabis use can interact to modulate the function of neurotransmitters systems implicated in schizophrenia." http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/npp201224a.html

I do'nt think it particularly matters what type of leaves buster although realy big leaves like bannanas or something dropped on the patch at fruiting or right before might be a bit of a problem for the sheer fact of smothering pins. Green leaves should not be used in a patch but brown leaves i think may be a good source of carbon but probly best used as a mulch to retain moisture in the patch.

Excellent stuff Ronny, once again we are indebted to EGA, keep up the good fight! As much as I appreciate the efforts & discussion here I can't help but feel people are still avoiding the real issue. The crux of this issue is not about wether they are entheogenic or have possible benefits or harms to the individual or wether they are even drugs, I don't feel the issue is even about drugs or plants. At its core the issue is about freedom of choice & wether people should have the right to choose what they do with their bodies (& gardens) as long as that choice does not impact significantly on others.

Nice inspiration pics, the one common theme through all of them that I just hate & I hope you do not spoil your garden with is those stupid pebbles, eeuurghh yuuucckk, they look so artificial & fake. Bigger pieces of bushrock or something, check out some of Trouts in situ pics of lophs squashed in between rocks for inspiration there. All the best with it, shall be quite an endeavour but I'm sure your plants are gonna love you for letting them stretch there toes.

I think these are psychosomatic withdrawal symptoms as your mind is not getting what it wants & plays havoc on your body. Although these symptoms are very real they are not caused by a physical dependence. "A broad spectrum of pathological gamblers (N = 222) were queried with regard to physical symptoms when attempting to slow down or stop gambling. Results were compared with a control group of substance-dependent patients who gambled at least casually. Sixty-five percent of the pathological gamblers (vs. only 2% of controls) experienced at least one of the following: insomnia (50%), headaches (36%), upset stomach or diarrhea (34%), loss of appetite (29%), physical weakness (27%), heart racing or palpitations (26%), shaking (19%), muscle aches or cramps (17%), difficulty breathing (13%), sweating (12%), and chills or fever (6.5%). In addition, 91% experienced “cravings'and 87% felt “restless and irritable'when attempting to cut down or stop gambling. Contrary to expectations, none of the symptoms correlated with gender, type of gambling, extent of alcohol or drug use while gambling, or self-described alcoholism or drug addiction. Symptoms did correlate with number of hours spent gambling, severity of the problem as measured by proposed DSM-IV criteria, and presence of dissociation." http://onlinelibrary...tomisedMessage=

I have actualy had some of those symptoms aswell BT, so I do beieve you. The worst for me was insomnia. You might also be suprised to find gambling or sex 'addicts' where there is clearly no physical dependence also experience these symptoms.

You are correct but I thought I made that obvious in the above post, Sorry mate, "Addiction is physical and psychological dependence on psychoactive substances." http://en.wikipedia....sambiguation%29

Wether Therefore was joking or not he is right, Cannabis is not addictive. Addiction requires not only psychological dependence but also physical dependence & Cannabis has not been shown to cause physical dependence. That in no way diminishes what people are going through or have gone through, for some it can be realy tough for others it can quite easily be given up. From personal experience its quite easy for me to stop smoking once I set my mind to it so please do'nt diminish others experience either. Cannabis is addictive in the convuluted ambiguos way that gambling or sex or shopping is addictive. I think its riddiculous to use it in the sense of both pschologicaly & physicaly dependent addictions like heroin or alcohol addiction where abrupt cessation leads to very real physical withdrawal symptoms. I think psychological dependence is a much better way to define it then addiction. I think alot of the dependence is actualy in the rituals associated with it, reducing & changing these rituals & finding other things to replace them with has been benficial for me. I've probly already said to much so i'll leave it at that. Best of luck with it.