Torsten

It would be nice to have it go through the counter so that is is part of the total. Let me work on this a bit more.

Have just made a couple more changes. Please keep reporting if it had an effect on currency.

weird, but it doesn't really matter as paypal exchange is negligible.

The goal counter seems to be faulty - it only shows the most recent donation rather than the total.

The 3 ID request forums have been changed to 'question' forums with the ability to rate the replies and chose best answers. I think this might be a good way to make good answers more prominent and hence easier for other readers to find the nuggets of gold buried in long discussions. Lets give it a go and see if it works as intended.

That's quite a separate issue, so I am happy to deal with that there as I am sure there will be other comments in relation to it.

I donated by paypal and it did it in AU$, so not sure what's going on there. Teething problems. Will attempt bitcoin once all the other stuff is sorted. May need some help with that.

No need to provide true address for donations. just make some shit up or use the SAB address. I am pretty sure it doesn't matter. I tried to find a setting to turn that requirement off, but haven't found it yet. I'll check member's profile visibility tonight.

Here are my comments that I wrote about the application (and the commentary that followed) earlier in the week in response to the emails circulating by the people involved. Apologies if it jumps all over the place a bit in a point by point fashion. The position of the point does not indicate importance as i was simply working through various emails step by step. 1) I am not sure what the application is trying to achieve. The TGA schedules are not a law. They are merely recommendations to the states which have ultimate control over the schedules under the state health acts. At best the proposal could provide for a federal guide, but I very much doubt the states will simply go along with it. Having some state based ministerial support would have been crucial for this. 2) There were suggestions that the TGA is taking this seriously simply because they tabled it. They did not decide on this process. All applications to the TGA have to be considered and decided upon by the delegate. By making the application they have no choice but to process it. There have been frivolous/ridiculous/unwinnable applications in the past, so the mere acceptance means nothing and we should not read anything into that. 3) (deleted: not applicable to this forum) 4) Religious use is a meaningless term in australia. Any incorporated association (ie 5 or more people) can call itself a religion and gains the legal status of one - which in australia also means nearly nothing, ie there is no status unless you are dealing with constitutional matters. 5 stoner friends that incorporate as an association have the same legal status as the UdV. 5) There seems to be a lot of talk about DMT, but none about harmaline. Harmaline is far more legally restricted in australia than DMT (in terms of quantity). In NSW for example it has a dosage unit of just 30 micrograms, ie the same as LSD, which the scheduling was modelled on. Any talk of ayahuasca tea should have been based on harmaline as this is the primary ingredient. This was likely an oversight as it follows the pattern used by the UdV to legalise ayahuasca overseas, but neglects to address the australian situation. 6) Expressing the percentage of DMT as mg in liquid isn't going to sit well with the TGA and makes little sense. There is the technical contradiction that you need to be in possession of the herbs first before making the tea, so the exemption must apply to the herbs themselves. Unless of course the intent is to create an exemption only for the UdV who want to import their brew from brazil 'ready made'. So this exemption would not favour independent practitioners. This was not well thought through. 7) There is a lot of discussion about moving towards a licensing system. Licensing [if any] will be determined by the TGA. However, if you are looking at licensing then you are not really looking at recheduling, so I wonder if the applicants have gone about this the right way as they are two separate processes. The only S9 exemption [besides research] I know of is a cultural exemption issued under the health act for the import, distribution and possession of cathinone containing plant material, ie Catha edulis. This had nothing to do with scheduling, but is simply an exemption. Despite this being a nationally available scheme as far as the TGA is concerned, most states have shut it down. I think only Vic and NSW still allow khat permits. 8) Much has been made of the religious aspect. 'religious purposes' was a big issue in the USA and some other countries, but has little meaning in Oz. Our federal constitution only guarantees that the federal government can't make laws that discriminate on the basis of religion, but it does not have any control over state law [which is what the TGA schedules are empowered by]. A constitutional scholar friend of mine tells me that a TGA ruling against the proposal is not an infringement of the constitution. There may be recourse under state charters, but so far nothing like that has been successful. I have been saying for years that state support is needed to make progress on this because ultimately these are all state law matters. I think the federal approach is a waste of time unless there is a plan on launching a constitutional challenge in the Northern Territory or ACT. The hopeful view of translating religious freedom exemptions to australia is not likely to be of any merit. 9) My friends in law enforcement policy tell me that DMT is very much on the agenda - and not in a good way. The TGA will toe the line of the federal drugs council [whatever the name is escapes me right now] which is focussing to come down harder on DMT rather than to weaken their stance. The TGA has no interest or incentive to buck the trend. I am not going to waste any time on making a submission as I do not see any chance of voluntary rescheduling (ie without a court case). And even if I was wrong then rescheduling by the TGA achieves nothing in practical terms. I see the only viable options for progress on this issue via the victorian charter or a federal constitutional case. I also do not see any level of government doing this voluntarily - like so many progressive policies this needs to be imposed by a court. Just to be clear, the illegality of dmt containing plant material was never a grey area. It is only unclear in the minds of those who wish it wasn't and who do not understand the law. There is no legal distinction between isolated DMT and non-isolated DMT. Again, this is a distinction only made by those who do not understand the law. There are plenty of legal precedents for there not being a distinction, eg in regards to ephedra/ephedrine, khat/cathinone, harmala/harmaline, iboga/ibogaine, etc. Simply wishing there was a distinction because ayahuasca is special in your mind does not make it so. I initially thought this application was intentionally naive and non-sensical as to provoke the TGA into an assured rejection which would then form the basis of a constitutional challenge. ie the only merit I saw in this application was as a court case trigger to have the law changed from the bench rather than from the regulator. But i have been assured by constitutional experts that a TGA rejection does not produce such a constitutional challenge trigger. Hence I see no merit in this application and in fact find it very damaging as it will draw attention to something that is on a knife edge of being even more restricted [ie the actual plants getting banned], which will have a negative impact on all non-UdV users . One assured outcome at least is that the TGA will finally lay any naive concepts of legality to rest. Their response will be very detailed in the way it will outline both federal and state laws that apply to ayahuasca, so that in future all these deluded individuals can simply be pointed to the TGA record of reason to set them straight. It will also mean that naivety based on ambiguity will no longer be a defence, so anyone involved in the process, in making submissions, and in commenting publicy should not expect any leniency if they do find themselves busted one day. This obviously applies most clearly to the applicant who will have no claim of grey area misunderstandings once the decision is made. I wonder if they considered that a pointless application will actually make their sourcing problems more difficult? Like i said previously, this does not have the hallmarks of a well though out strategy as it misses the intended aim, neglects to be inclusive, fails to consider basic practicalities, and is a carbon copy of the process applied in other countries based on laws not in existence here. In fact, proposals of this nature have been proposed by naive people with no understanding of law for at least 12 years and usually stall once they gain a modicum of an understanding of the legal situation. There is nothing special in this application and it could have been made without any financial outlay by anyone naive enough to ignore the basic realities.

I am posting and pinning a new thread for the current version.

I think you misread the proposal for 2,4-DINITROPHENOL . It is not proposing a new 'schedule', but a new 'schedule entry'. Schedule 10 already exists. It used to be appendix C. A simply glance at the SUSMP over the last year or so would tell you so.

Our approval time is usually a few weeks, but for a number of technical reasons for the last few months it may have been considerably longer. These reasons are now fixed. So if you applied in the last 5 months and have not been approved then only the usual reasons still stand in the way. The 'usual' reason is almost always that YOU have not validated your email address. Without this validation your request will not even be considered by the software. So the first step is to make sure that you have validated. if you are not a approved yet and have been waiting less than 12 months then go look in your inbox NOW. Make sure to also check your junk/spam folder. Only use the link in the email that was sent today 23/04/2016. Ignore all previous validation emails as they will likely not work. if you do not validate you will not be approved - EVER. if your application is older than 12 months then it will have been deleted automatically. Please sign up again. I am currently checking applications on a weekly basis, so as long as you have done the validation you can get in very quickly at the moment. You may not have received a validation email though. This is due to YOUR mail service, not us. Some mail services put our emails into junk/spam, while some will simply block them entirely. If you did not receive a validation email today then your email provider is blocking us and you will likely never get an email from us no matter how long you wait. usually microsoft (hotmail/live/outlook) blocks us, but for some reason they started letting 'some' emails through as of 2 weeks ago. So I have resent all validation emails today including to some requests up to 12 months old. So if you applied in may 2015 and only just got approved then this is not our fault, but the fault of your mail provider. There are still some providers that block us. Bigpond & optusnet all the time. Hushmail and aol sometimes. The most reliable mail service for us has been gmail. It reliably puts our email into junk/spam, but at least it actually gets to you ;)

you're not talking about the status update box by any chance? it's now in a facebook-style timeline on your profile page.

I can't help with most of those question because as admin my screen & profile looks very different and I have access to lots of other things. Maybe other members can help? everything should still be there, just via different menus. if you thought the user end was confusing you should see the admin end

what specifically are you looking for? and why report in this thread rather than in the one where I requested problems to be reported?

have tweaked. is it fixed?

zelly, all embedded images should now be fixed. Gallery is fixed too.

Yes, I'd like to sort that out this time. let me get everything else fixed first though.

Done

It seemed that the image tags for some uploaded images might be lost, but apparently they are not. we'll know for sure in about 8 hours. No other content was lost, but I felt that the forum should not move forward without the embedded images.

EDIT: Upgrade was successful and content has been repaired, so please ignore the warning below. Please do not post anything important for a few days. I am not confident that this upgrade has gone well enough to be fixable. So for the moment I want to keep the option open to start again, which may delete all content created in the meantime. This is definitely not the preferred option, but it seems that the upgrade dropped some data from within posts and I am not prepared to allow that. I am not sure what magic options the tech team has, so not sure if ti is fixable or not. if you do post important stuff make sure to keep a local copy so it can be posted again. I will edit this post once a decision has been made.

Pretty much all settings got screwed up. Some because the system is different, some because the upgrade did not go well. So I am going to work with tech support the next few days to fix things which may include starting again. I won't be fixing any settings like that until I know we can actually keep this upgrade attempt. I'll try and keep track of all these issues, but if I forget please remind me.

I had ☽Ţ ҉ĥϋηϠ₡яღ☯... in mind when i wrote that [and turns out i was right, LOL]

IPB has changed the way you log into the forums. Currently you have both a display name and a log in name. The new version will only have one of these. I have been given a choice to select which one and feel it should be the display name so that we all still recognise each other. Also, many members probably don't want their log in name to become public. So, in the next few days sometime we will be upgrading and once this is done you will only be able to log in with your display name. If you don't remember your display name just look for one of your posts and copy it from there.

There was no choice but to update - because of security reasons. So we just have to deal with the changes. I am very keen to read about any errors so i can pass them onto the tech team, but please refrain from complaining about the colour etc as i can't start to fix any of that until I can be sure we don't have to revert. I will be focusing on the essentials first and then look at the cosmetic stuff. Mind you, i don't have a lot of time, so there may be delays with the cosmetic stuff. depends a bit on how long the essential stuff takes.