Pat Uri

Rural magistrate's court will lose three quarters of its revenue!

What about the police officers who'll have to buy their own?

Forgive this pedantic old dolt - but it isn't Cannabis that is illegal, or rather unlawful. Hemp is okay (in fact the word "canvas" is derived from cannabis and the British fought the Crimean war to secure cannabis supply for their Navy) - and for ages there was a wild patch growing just outside Rockhampton. You can grow it, lawfully, if you have the licenses. You'll even find it in the Japanese 7 spice - shichimi. Marijhauna - what used to be called "Indian Hemp" when authorities thought they knew what they were talking about - is illegal. This is now defined by its potential THC content, remembering it is only in certain stages of its development it produces cannabinoids, then only if it has roots (tissue cultures don't) and the living plant has very little THC C21H30O2 but rather the carboxylic acid C22H32O4! But the Law is the Law - and that is that. (suppose you all knew this anyway)

Yeah thanks for the information! Always loved the image! Curious if it is the Jaguar avatar? I notice the tatt doesn't have the claws though - is that intentional?

Maaaan! They've been promising that one since Cab Calloway was still a shoe shine kid. I've long given up. Fact is they are just waiting for me to die so they commemorate by making it legal...

I hear you brother! Reminds me of a Jamaican saying "Me throw me corn but me call no fowl". In other words it is easy to be paid to talk around something when it is real, decisive action required. That's politicians for you. Q - do they ever get piss tested as they make law for us? Anyhows - Jah bless you now!

Well my little cactus did not open its flower today - it just tightened up, darkened, its little calyx twisting it into a rosebud - no doubt a long, satisfied, consummated 'smile' on its retiring little face! I think we all know what that means! So it's cigars and champagne all round! I'm gonna be the daddy of a dynasty. OK - a dynasty with a very limited gene pool, but that hasn't stopped Tasmania has it? And what could be better than cactus babies with TWO heads? My happiness knows no end - Thank you all!

Gidday there - Acacia King, Rahli, Tonic and CQ countryman Kent! Nice to meet you all. You bet "felt weed" S.cordifolia and "Queensland hemp" S.rhombifolia are as common around here as cowsh*t - and about the same potency. They were introduced with the Brahman and spread like wildfire since. Read all about it in http://keyserver.luc..._cordifolia.htm In the Northern Territory it is declared Class B and C pest - they'll pay you to pull it out! In our terms that declaration means it is illegal to carry over state borders. I cannot get my hands on Cribbs "Wild Medicine in Australia" - the second volume - where they mention the one reference to the introduced pest being low in alkaloid - unlike the Indian "Bala" selectively bred for it's potency. If any city folk forum peoples can, please let us all in: - better than my old memory! (Same sort of difference between weedy dandelion and the official, pharmaceutical dandelion which is a magnificent, huge plant.) Always makes me chuckle when the "traps" are chasing down every bod that buys a box of Sudafed when:- 1) a NSW ex-cop was bringing in shipping containers of it; 2) foreign boaties were seen bringing tonnes in - but managed, in full sight, to throw it overboard before authorities boarded them; and 3) I have, you have, they have, we all have it growing in our Queensland backyards! In CQ grazier's situation by the megatonne - all unwelcome! (Go 'Schedule' that! - ya bastards!) The proper herb, boiled up with ginger, makes a cough linctus second to none and every bit as good as what Big Pharm want to force you to buy off them - but without the side-effects. Interestingly if you take drugs in their natural botanical form - with all the attendant alkaloids, phytochemicals, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, co-enzymes, etc. that nature intended to keep these strong medicine/poisons benign and beneficial in the living plant tissue - and NOT in single chemical, isolated, artificial "active principal" tablet form so profitable to Big Pharm - then they are generally free of side effects, addictions, overdosing, etc. But, oh!, the vanity of man! Compare decent coffee with No-Doz tablets; or Ma-Huang with Fedrine tablets; or, as I understand the US is trialling, Coca leaf with "crack cocaine" - and you will see nature is well more intelligent than any political fashion. One of the 'hands' I hired - ex 'speed-head' as you won't get 'gear' here - heard that feltweed had "goey" in it and proceeded to boil up kilograms - stinkbugs and all - to guzzle down the excellent mucilage it produces. He boiled it neutral, acidic and alkali. For his trouble all he got green shit for a few days, but no "high":- did him good, excellent detox! but, oddly, his urine showed positive to 'sympathomimetics' that the Instacheck drug tests the Government had provided me picked up! "Cause he had no meth in him - it was a false positive. So whether it was ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, etc. who cares? I pay for his work, not his biochemistry. On the land we live and work by "Realpolitik" and not some bureaucrat inspired fantasy. I support them - and they support me:- simple. The human chain. Unbreakable. That's probably enough for now. Thanks for the chat! Nice to see a local in forum there Kent! Bye to all.

Cheers for the poll bigred82 - and I am not purposely trying to demean you or anything, but did you misspell "decriminalise" in the title of this topic intentionally? It is just funny the way you spelt it "De Crim, Anal-ize" because that pretty much is what the law does. It takes decent law-abiding people who like a smoke occasionally - it may be their only vice - "MAKE" them a criminal, put them in prison, with hardcore psychos and end with very sore bottoms and screwed up, bitter personalities indeed. They have no interest in preventing the "crime", studying how it happened, helping the family that's lost the breadwinner or rehabilitating the perpetrator when they get out. Like Chucky-D said "This what I mean, By the Anti-Nigger Machine!" - yep, an apparatus to MAKE criminals, not PREVENT them. PEACE!

Well said spice-of-life! You are no small thinker! Hell - you can drink alcohol for days without sleep; then drive a vehicle, full of No-Doz and only just under the General Alcohol Limit and the police would not be able to do a thing! Strange, because at 0.049% alcohol I couldn't walk a straight line, let alone behave responsibly. So much for Zero Tolerance to drink driving! I couldn't get that messed up regardless of what I smoked or how much. But if I was pulled over and my saliva showed the bearest detectable trace of pot, even if I couldn't...you know the rest! Odd - I can smoke and enjoy playing level after level of Doom 3D - but so much as a couple of beers, my reflexes are so slowed and my judgement that addled I'm "killed" off in seconds and give up playing. Know-what-I-mean, like?

How do you think the poll is coming along bigred82? If it ends up just being a few of us the State Government shouldn't have too much trouble setting up a "sheltered workplace" for us - surely?

Tyrosine should be readily available OTC any health food shop. LikeAshesWeFade if you're having problems with Risperadol - which will antagonise a lot of stimulants - Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors should be prescribed as well - they're often used together. Problem is once taken SSRI are pretty much for life - their withdrawal is not good. Ask the doctor about Artane (Trihexyphenidyl) after you research it a bit. It may put a bit more of a positive in your therapy. Get well soon!

They must have a state election coming up...

I'm gonna try this with Erythroxylum spp. native and otherwise. If successful I gonna name it after you Evil Genius! Even if I got to polypoid the hybrid seed to virilise it.

Evil Genius - I feel in your debt forever! I have one lonely little specimen about 7 years old (I've spent a fortune on seeds too) that flowers it's little heart out but has never set fruit - of course. On a hunch - and the fact it is downwind of a local alumina refinery that "graces" us with its caustic soda plumes - I looked amongst the furrows and found a seed! Today it germinated! So it didn't just self pollinate, the seed was viable too! My poking around stimulated another flower. It opened today and I had the ammonium hydroxide 0.05M solution ready and waiting! (Just an Auxin variation of your technique - thank you both! The NH4OH is completely volatile, of known pH and cement powder can be variable in the lime/gypsum proportion.) The stigma has browned and I'll see if the flower opens tomorrow - but my expectations are very good! This time I'll ensure I don't overload the embryo seedlings with light, which has always been my mistake previously. You have made an old man and a lonely, little cactus very, very happy! If anyone else had told me to put quicklime on my precious little fella's sex organs I would have done it to them. Thank you! and thank you Auxin! Happy Patty!

Good come-back! No nerves to hit, my friend! Most of my CNS was burnt out years ago - oh, if only I had two brains to enjoy! Just testing your temper - we are here to have fun! So how you feel about ephedra? Looks just like Casuarina - think they'll spot that one?

Prehaps you do at "Centerlink"! You don't at Centrelink. And I should know - I took a contract, months back, to move all the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service's equipment into local Centrelink's office because the Federal Government had closed the latter office down and merged the two together! Hired 3 labourer's to do it and kept them full of "goodies" when I did! The officers stared at my bare feet, red eyes and beer breath - but being the only contractor who'd hire CRS bods and do it that cheaply - said not a word. The CRS sign is, pride of place, used as a coffee table now in one of their homes! You wanna get back to your topic ya ginger freak - or am I blowing too much smoke up your kilt?

Thanks there space cadet! So long as they want to tell us what has mescaline and what hasn't and what level the cutoff is - be it quality or quantity, 10 specimens more or less, etc.:- so they will get their job satisfaction. Frankly I'd love to know myself:- which cultivar has the most, when it has the most, which part has the most, is it the species, en toto, the fertilizer used, etc. If us enthusiasts don't know, what realistic chance do they stand?...Unless they wanna try it and see - which I whole heartedly recommend to them! If they want to be the experts, then I'm sure we are all ears!...Not that we would know anything of course! I think they would do a better job by making real what legislation is already in place:- pull out all the lantana, parthenium, water hyacinth, prickly pear, knob weed, rubber vine, cane toads, etc. etc. and THEN make up more rules. Indeed inspecting what "certain" suppliers already sell, at a few bucks a pot, as garden plants, when they are, in fact, invasive pests in this state might be a start. QA won't allow me to buy Bunnings tools, plants or merchandise. We buy only from reputable dealers that sell goods that meet Australian Safety Standards. Anyway if I wanted any of their shitty, el cheapo crap I'd bribe one of their underpaid, desperate managers to steal it for me and deliver it to me personally for a "carton of piss" and a "bag of weed". No offense! - a job is a job! Cheers, now!

Sorry there bigred82 - you'll just have to tell me what is in Bunnings yourself. They refuse me entry, because I refuse to wear shoes!...

Wow! The authorities are amazing! I wish I could identify a fungus just by looking at a spore print.

Ah yes very nice thank you. As you can see above there are two very distinct populations, confined to altitude with no range in between. This is very unusual in biological populations. I can assure you that it doesn't occur in the highlands around Mackay (Eungella, Finch Hatton, etc) as I spend some time kidnapped by the enemy tribes of that region some decades ago. (What a time we had too! Grins all round! Beautiful country! I remember sitting on a cliff edge at sunrise, feet dangling over the edge, having the first smoke of the day and watching several hundred Richmond Birdwing butterflies feasting on the opening flowers of an enormous Pararistolochia praevenosa vine that dangled down from the trees above me to near the foot of the cliff. They were so close you could touch them. They were totally oblivious to me and carried on sipping nectar like iridescent green hummingbirds. As I sung chants to them, 3 gorgeous young gins came with my breakfast and to beg me to start their cooking fire for the day, with my manly "thum-pup" - what you people call fire sticks - as only men carry them. I could tell by the food they had prepared me, and the look in their lovely brown eyes, they were very excited to be hosting such a powerful captive as myself. So I sung for them over my breakfast as they massaged my shoulders and weaved little blue and red flowers in my hair and beard - which was very black back then - and were charmed by my voice and beautiful body... Hold on folks = I'm digressing wildly here! Back to the botanics yes?) So presumably the ancient populations were connected in the time of the great Landsborough sandstone's deposition and became separated by the great Pioneer River's erosion to form the Pioneer Valley onto the coast. Hence it is a very old and very powerful species and bears very little relationship with other Pityrodia spp. You see this also expressed in its well drifted genetic sequence in one of those fine scientific papers above. So it was rather an outstanding choice to found the Genus upon. None of the other's are like it at all and have probably evolved from it since. None of the others are poisonous either - which is a good sign for the overall health effects of this plant. I've certainly consumed enough to know it isn't! Afraid I can not say too much about it in pregnancy and lactation as it was a men's magic. It doesn't contain thujone either. Now I'm assured that here as avatars in forum we are like the angels, neither black nor white, neither male nor female, neither given or taken in marriage, and so the normal restrictions of Earth women prying into men's secrets don't apply here. But if there are any women of totem crocodile out there - be ashamed because the moon will take you for your disobedience. You have been warned! That lazy PhaemonsDog should have climbed those mountains by now to gather you people some cuttings, but all the lazy shit has done is make me look at loads of paperwork to identify it to species. Not good enough! He thinks he'll get out of the work - but he won't. All I see is picture of that scraggly red stemmed proper rubbish one and not the one I want him to get. The bum should have kept mine alive when he sampled it twenty years ago now. To completely confirm it I need to see its living aura and not some monitor reproduction! No - there won't be anything much on the internet about it. No more than on any other aspect of australian black culture! Try looking up thum-pup, or even Byellee, or for that matter the whole Goeng-Goeng nation! No they are too busy building megaports, ruining the harbour and treating us like proper rubbish! Hence why I write to this forum, to preserve a little while I can. So thank you for reading this and I shall tell you some more soon. SAB shall have exclusive use of this one! Thank you Mr T! and folk. And all the good people above for their links and maps and things - because I am still learning this computer thing and that dog won't be back for a bit. Respect! and Peace! Most High Spirit bless you.

Pectin. Ask any jam maker. Acidity is essential to it's viscosity. Best of luck!

Evil genius - botanists get doctorates debating the cause of the explosive divergent evolution of cactaceae. I've read hypothesis ranging from geographic isolations, uprise of the Andes, increased UV at altitude or desert, inbuilt mutogenic chemistry, even Nazca UFO aliens dicking around with DNA! But never the possibility you suggest by your solid experimentation. ...so, the pH of limestone desert dusts!...Sir! I salute you! Congratulations. You author a new chapter in our knowledge.

Yes you bet Lophophora is a bust in Queensland - they even try to entrap you! Gee - I wish I could have some - I could have got some seeds too, at one stage, and sally d. and kratom - thanks to Mr T's bravery. But in those paranoid, lurking years I honestly thought the SAB e-shop was another Police entrapment scheme! Well I paid the price and missed out, as SAB religiously abide by the law as it constantly changes at whim. Really the honest nursery is a "sitting duck" to legislation and it's a wonder their prohibition isn't generating a black market! I get by on member's gallery and what few cactaceae I'm allowed - in some stages of their development they look a bit like Lw - which is highly polymorphic, sometimes not all that easy for the layman to identify and not called one of the "living stones" for any small reason, being near invisible in a rockery of greenish, weathered stones. Fairly obvious in a flower pot, pride of place, and labelled though. Nope - no peyote in Queensland! Prehaps Ariocarpus, Anhalonium williamsii, Echinocactus lewinii, Mammillaria williamsii var. echinata, sheeeet! I dunno - I'm a complete noobie about this fascinatingly unique world of cactus - natives are my forte! So folks - when asked about drug plants in Queensland - be like Nancy Reagan - and just say "No!". RESPECT!

No - I dare say it is just a high school demonstration model and the real energy comes from the gas bottle they have it connected to:- but you must commend their efforts in promoting alternative energy. Photo-galvanic cells - the silicon solar cell - we are used to in the first world would be price prohibitive there. Indeed some desperate soul would "appropriate" it to swap for cornmeal to feed their starving family. Of greater use would be the type of solar hydrogen cell where sunlight is concentrated onto a platinum sponge catalyst to produce the hydrogen fuel. Where would impoverished people get platinum - even the traces used in such cells? Why, their land is a primary producer of it - except that vicious psychopathic capitalists from multi-international mining companies will not allow them possession of the resource that is really rightfully theirs.