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Where you able to look up pharmacovigilance info? Possibly a better source

I don't get it

People like that sucked for sure. Medical cannabis will hopefully make that crappy PGR bikie bud and its dealers fade into obscurity. I dunno if those ppl would consider themselves or be considered part of the ethno / plant medicine community though

Yeah this forum is super slow compared to 15 or so years ago. I keep coming back because of how awesome and inspiring it was when I was younger.

The people I've met and interacted with IRL who share an interest in plants and ethnobotany were, in aggregate, generous and 'good' people by my standards. I have definitely met a minority of people who I found selfish or disagreeable. There's no obligation to interact with them. My experience in martial arts is that there are some bad-natured people in the mix despite a lot of good ones. Same same but different. If you are judging the ethnobotany community off Facebook posts I think you will form a biased and negative opinion. I think SAB Facebook and even subreddits for psychoactive plants are fairly toxic. People attack and post caustic comments on impressive acheivements like well-designed hydro systems, flowering plants, tissue cultures, plant research etc. etc.

looks great

+1, their distribution includes colder parts of QLD and the northern rivers. Territory boundaries are arbitrary. Any sporulated pile of mulch where there's rain or irrigation and it dips below 12 degrees C could fruit. That's a LOT of microclimates.

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I think they are quite common, although it seems to be the exception rather than the norm for most varieties. Maybe 1/25 or so have 4 ribs. A plant with >4 ribs which is cut will often throw 4-ribbed branches. Likewise 4-ribbed plants can often throw >4-ribbed branches.

haha good point, oops. what a fool 😄 I edited it. i'd like to think the ppl that come on this forum wouldn't go around killing endangered trees for their alkaloids based on this recount of an unhinged reddit post.

I flicked through their post history, they probably aren't trolling. They claim there are redback spiders all over the mountain that, by some magic, prevent ppl from endangering the plant (they are exempt though). They post a method which kills the tree (edit). They claim they don't do this. Even if they don't publicising a method like this is still scumbaggery. They're delusional and shameless about harvesting critically endangered plants. Communication style is just a word salad sprinked with emojis. Gives me enough info about the sort of person they are, although you could probably deduce that just by the action of harvesting endangered wattles.

Good point. I was shocked when I saw those NSW government varroa baits in a national park. The only bees I saw inside were natives.

There is scientific evidence that exercise can be more effective than SSRIs for certain people. I understand most people live busy lives and work tiring jobs but most people also deny themselves what they are capable of.

edit: actually I take my comment back, I believe this is likely a troll post

The main problem with lantana is that it spreads and forms dense thickets where it goes, suppressing growth of native vegetation and altering the natural ecosystem. Birds and mammals disperse the seeds to areas that are difficult to reach and control. I think it deserves its reputation as a pest with the potential to harm the environment. Many plants provide fodder for insects and prevent erosion, so it's not a good trade-off in light of it's environmental harm. The flowers are beautiful though, I agree. Sterile lantana would have been good foresight, unfortunately we're stuck with what we have. I don't agree with shark culling. Sharks are endemic keystone species. I don't think it makes sense to conflate immigration in a discussion about introduced species.

I'm struggling to imagine what it would be like to have this

I agree, especially considering the mycorrhizal carbon supply is surplus to permit growth and fruiting. Most mycorrhizal fungi are in obligate association with the trees and have limited capacity for saprotrophy. There isn't a cost for promiscuous association with multiple trees, it is a hedge against a host dying. This is without even taking into account that many trees, especially in Nth American conifer forest, are obligate ectomycorrhizal symbionts.

Hi Dweaver, most of what you have written does not align with current knowledge regarding A. berlandieri, but thanks for your contribution and welcome to the forums 🙂

Hi WC, I like the idea of this post. I prefer the appearance of the growth form with a large single apex compared to caespitose. I've attached some photos of some of your grafts which I received several years ago.

Meanwhile you can legally drive on prescribed benzos and opioids 🤔

Nah, not the Starlink, although it was crazy when I saw that and had no idea what it was 😄

Interesting experience. Has anyone else been seeing the large drones that fly in grid patterns lately? I first saw them pop up about 5 years ago, and they have been flying in a grid more or less every day since. They appear at night just as it gets dark, and I have seen them until 4AM, but presumably they remain until it gets light enough and they are not camouflaged with the stars. It sounds completely insane but everyone I've pointed them out to agrees they are large drones with, presumably, large IR cameras that reflect the moonlight. They appear superficially like stars until they start wobbling in the wind and moving in lines.

Thanks for your responses guys The Panadol thing is pretty standard as far as I'm aware. Might as well call it Coke Zero with how badly most people are getting ripped off. Boric acid and other things have been used, which could cause testicular atrophy. All in the name of $ Using Mortein on cannabis crops is moronic, but at least it make senses in a cause-and-effect sort of way to someone who doesn't care about quality or know much about horticulture. Maybe cutting was a misnomer, I'm just genuinely puzzled how high potency opioids are contaminating a plethora of other recreational drugs the world over. I was just curious if this is a systematic thing that groups of people are doing for a specific purposes or just bad quality control with dealers mixing up cocaine and fentanyl on the same table with same razor type of thing. Part of me thinks there is more to the picture

Basically yeah, that's my question. Why are these people cutting other drugs with opioids that could kill their customers and are also not what they're looking for. Sure, it's unregulated, but its a big leap from cutting it with inert things to make more money versus adulterating with potentially lethal opioids. It's pretty terrible if their hoping to get people addicted to the opioids they're selling by any means and killing people in the process. Customers get pissed off enough with greedy dealers cutting too much, I think cutting with nitazenes would come back to bite you. It just doesn't make sense to me. Sure, there are some parallels between Big Pharma's dodgy sales tactics, but I think this is even more depraved there's no justification for it I can see. I've heard in the US some dealers benefit from the notoriety that their customers die because it means they have quality product and improves their sales which is pretty awful.

Over the past few years, fentanyl has claimed many lives in the US and elsewhere. Concerningly, many other drugs such as methamphetamine, cocaine, MDMA and even cannabis oils have been adulterated with synthetic opioids like fentanyl, leading to accidental overdoses and deaths. Fentanyl has never been as big of a problem in Australia as it has been in the US. However, nitazenes have been seized in increasing amounts in the UK and Australia. Recently, 4 people died of opioid overdoses in Melbourne taking cocaine adulterated with nitazenes. I fear this issue will escalate in Australia and we may see a similar situation with nitazenes here as we have seen with fentanyl in the US. At some point, someone is deliberately mixing cocaine or other drugs with nitazenes or fentanyl. Resultingly, people who may be opioid-naïve and were expecting to take cocaine or meth end up dying of an overdose. I'm curious why this is happening and what these people stand to gain from doing this. Are they trying to get customers addicted to opioids? If people die in this way surely it prompts an investigation, I don't know how the scumbags doing this are benefitting from it.