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Hullo! Been working on some interesting smoking mixes, maybe you will find them interesting too: Sceletium, Lotus, Heimia: I think the intent is there in this one, it just needs a better kick. Heimia extract or yohimbe instead of just heimia might do the trick. Damiana, Brugmansia leaf, Lobelia is nice, in fact it's great to keep in a pouch instead of rolly tobacco. Damiana and Brug leaf together are alright too, but I think the potential for this mix really lies in darcy's new resin. I wish I had more to test it out (I've tried damiana and resin, lotus and resin and cannabis and resin so far). An interestingly strange one is this: A few cones of mary with scelly sprinkled on top (enough to notice effects of scelly), then a cone of mary with some crushed datura seed. I have a few more "tropanic" ones I'm working on, but I need some corkwood leaf, and for a different one I need some properly cured N. rustica. Ones that I haven't tried yet are (but have written down as ideas for further experimentation) * Henbane (or D. stramonium v. tatula), Cannabis and maybe Catnip or something. * Tagetes lucida, Datura and N. rustica (I am aware N. rustica and T. lucida are used together traditionally, I think a bit of datura flower would give it the kick it needs). I have some ideas for something with wormwood and something else with lions tail, but can't try it until I have money to pay for herb! (Goddamn uni fees). Enjoy! [ 21. September 2005, 05:43: Message edited by: apothecary ]
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Be out of town for a week or two. Behave! Or not...whatever's easiest. :drool2:
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My Catha Edulis plant turned up in the mail today (second order from SAB, I love you guys). Few questions. 1. How long can I leave it in the little pot it came in? 2. When I transplant, should it be to a bigger pot, or into the ground. 3. Should I keep it in direct sunlight all day, or an area that gets sunlight and some shade during the day too. 4. When I transplant, what kind of soil should it be into? I have some normal potting mix, some cactus mix I got from Bunnings, and just some rough garden soil. I've read quite a few guides on growing C. Edulis, but I just thought I'd verify some things I wasn't 100% on. [ 18. January 2005, 16:44: Message edited by: apothecary ]
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Fresh, good quality kava is tasty IMHO. I concur with extract versus prepared root. AFAIK it is still legal to bring back 2kg with you from a holiday to a Pacific island like Fiji or Vanuatu, otherwise Schedule 4.
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Best crops for survival gardening
apothecary replied to nano's topic in Sustainable Technologies & Ethical Living
All of my favorite greens (including spinach) contain oxalic acid. Re survival crops, it's my understanding that sweet potatoes, Ipomea batatas, are nutritionally complete aside from protein. Good choice if the climate can support it. -
A couple of my mates, "Stinkwood" have just put this up I asked them if it would be ok for me to post here they said fo sho. https://www.facebook.com/Stinkwood http://www.sendspace.com/file/hxg75r
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This is an awesome thread. I think I can contribute, because I am pretty 'unhygenic' in terms of washing hands and whatnot, and generally don't get sick. Never had glandular fever. But, since I moved to Melbourne, I get sick every Winter! And I've had food poisoning at least twice and once some sort of stomach failure that left me completely screwed for 2 weeks. For someone who grew up with only the occasional flu, this was a lot to cope with! After this experience, to me it seems that it's all about what your body can handle. This Winter I've been experimenting with preventatives: * Ginger/honey/lemon tea (lemon and honey put in after the water has cooled) * Spoonfuls of honey * Echinacea+Garlic+Zinc+vitC tablets * Andrographis extract tablets * Strepsils * Phyllanthus emblica pure herb capsules * Chewing licorice root Coupled with trying much harder to stay warm. With very good success. Haven't been sick once since I've started taking them, even though I've shared smoking with a bunch of friends who were very sick. I don't take it every day, but every second day or as soon as I feel any sort of symptoms coming on. So I can anecdotally concur with the study posted earlier, that the symptoms of flu are your immune system responding. As I've gone to great efforts to ensure my immune system doesn't get compromised I've been completely unsymptomatic. Not even the sniffles. I feel much more confident using public transport at peak times, as I know as soon as I get home the correct thing to do is boost the immune system. The only thing Idon't like about Echinacea is the warfarin interaction, my blood seems to thin a lot after even a relatively mild dose of the stuff. Which is a shame as I think that makes it much more difficult to take higher doses if I need it. For example, if I take equiv 2g dry herb in extract tablets before bed and blow my nose in the morning, my blood can still be quite thin and come out with mucous.
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How'd you go, any thefts overnight? Just for the record, if you have a bunch of mates who like to stay up late waiting for pricks who steal plants, in NSW citizens can perform a citizens arrest for almost anything! I would try and catch them in the act, threaten them with physical force if they don't cooperate and make a citizens arrest. Call the cops and explain to them that you're a rare plant collector who has just caught the burglar who has been in your yard every night for the last week.
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anyone willing to do on-camera interview about ayahuasca?
apothecary replied to Torsten's topic in News & Notices
Woah! When you see Stuart, will you tell him that he is one of my heroes? -
Up until very recently, one of the systems I administered was a small-animal MRI scanner (and related infrastructure), which operates mostly on mice and rats, exactly the genetic lines used in these types of experiments. (hole board test, tail flick test, etc)
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Stillman, this is exactly why it's important to include the references and in this case I appreciate that you ran it down for us. For etiquette, it's also important you annotate the reference properly so other people can go and find it. I'd point out that a 3g equiv dose is roughly 12% of an average (25g) mouse body weight, so we are talking >5kg fresh material for a 50kg human or >500g dry material. So it would be extremely unlikely to see effects from such a low dose as reported "a few leaves or flowers"...much more likely placebo.
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Half of the reason I left this forum was exactly because more and more people were coming on and spouting their personal opinion as fact to other people who didn't know any better and if you tried to point out that it was nothing more than opinion you ended up in this exact back-and-forth. I can see it's still the same. I'm not really interested in contributing to this sort of thing, so I'll leave you and the others to it. Enjoy! I agree, at least a trip report covers a modicum of information which can be useful in any attempts to reproduce the assay as opposed to "hey I ingested an (indeterminate amount?) of (dry?) (fresh?) plant matter and am now convinced it has XYZ effects."
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Hey BF, How are the Cathas doing now?
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IMHO when reporting to the forums it's really, really, really important to stress the difference between a personal bioassay and actual scientifically verified fact. What you believe and think needs to be stated with great care, rather than carelessly, which gives people the opportunity to mis-read your statements! and again: Come on dude! What you mean to say is that: "the one time I smoked this plant in an un-measured, un-standardised dose, I felt it had a sedative quality, which could easily have been the effect of placebo."
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You said "I can assure you this variety has some active properties". I asked, how can you make this assurance? Especially considering proper double blind human assays for splendens have shown up nothing?
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I would say 99% of this Australian freeman/common law stuff that incessantly keeps popping up on the net is confused regurgitations from already confused people from the UK and US who aren't educated at all on the law. Having kept in close contact with someone who actually tried to use Common Law as the basis of a legal challenge (and documented it all on this forum) I remain extremely skeptical as to any practical applications.
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What is your understanding based on? Youtube videos about freeman stuff? Ever checked the actual law? Common law is Magna Carta? Again, what are you basing this on? There is only a single chapter (29) of Magna Carta which was preserved in Australia, and that is in relation to trial by a jury of peers and the right to a speedy trial! That is all! Even then there exist a bunch of state laws which override that chapter anyway! As for your claim the Magna Carta is part of the Commonwealth Constitution.... , have you actually read the Commonwealth Constitution, because...lol Prove this statement which you make as fact by highlighting the appropriate sections of law.
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According to Ayurveda:
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How can you make that assurance? People who tested under double blind couldn't spot the difference between it and placebo? AFAIK the only confirmed psychoactive use is to increase sensitivity to S divinorum in those heads which are hard to it.
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Calea Z. and Silene Capensis...anybody else not notice any effects?
apothecary replied to gtarman's topic in Ethnobotany
This is all about the cannabis and not really about the Calea. What you are describing is the depleting/repleting effect of cannabis on serotonergic and dopaminergic neurotransmitters. -
Calea Z. and Silene Capensis...anybody else not notice any effects?
apothecary replied to gtarman's topic in Ethnobotany
I will add my experience, which was mostly derived from reading other people experiences on this forum! I can't recommend the search engine highly enough. * Calea extract (acetone made): ingested equiv to the traditional "one cupped handful" dose immediately before bed. Only minor lucid experience, one dream I remember so distinctly is picking up a pack of Kettle chips off the shelf in a supermarket and I was sooooo amazed at being able to feel the texture of the bag in my dream. Main effect was rather the amazing feeling I got when I woke up, usually after ingesting this home-made extract I would wake up 2-4 hours earlier than normal feeling absolutely amazing and happy. * Calea smoked (bong): Prepare for bed. Turn off all the lights. It's gotta be really dark already! Smoking this substanc while the lights are on, doesn't seem to work for me. Smoke 5-10 cones of the pure herb in a row and immediately go to bed. Strong lucid dreams and amazing feeling on wakeup. Obviously that's a lot to smoke before bed but my experiments indicated that lower doses were ineffective. -
Best crops for survival gardening
apothecary replied to nano's topic in Sustainable Technologies & Ethical Living
Good thread. I would recommend doing as much research into edible weeds as you can, especially from the perspective of protein. Chickweed, stinging nettle, lambsquarters, can't go wrong. -
No-one on this forum has reported getting it, but people on the net are reporting it (recently too). For example http://forumcore.net...-editing-error/ I was more responding to the question "is it just me?", after checking the message I think it's unlikely the users computer is the source of the issue.
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If you google the error it does seem to be a forum bug of some sort...