#35386 - 02/10/10 04:57 AM
Re: Datura
[Re: Coyote Junkie]
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Woland
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Registered: 08/28/07
Posts: 616
Loc: Oslo, Norway
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Dear friends.
Not so proud to be able to say; been there, done that...
Proud to say; not doing it tomorrow.
I am now 6 feet 10, 220 lbs.
At my all time low I weighed in at 127 lbs...
Listen to the words of the wise man:
Afterword to the novel "A Scanner Darkly" by Philip K. Dick.
This has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did. They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed—run over, maimed, destroyed—but they continued to play anyhow. We really all were very happy for a while, sitting around not toiling but just bullshitting and playing, but it was for such a terrible brief time, and then the punishment was beyond belief: even when we could see it, we could not believe it…. For a while I myself was one of these children playing in the street; I was, like the rest of them, trying to play instead of being grown up, and I was punished. I am on the list below, which is a list of those to whom this novel is dedicated, and what became of each.
Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is “Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying.” But the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory. It is, then, only a speeding up, an intensifying, of the ordinary human existence. It is not different from your life-style, it is only faster. It all takes place in days or weeks or months instead of years. “Take the cash and let the credit go,” as Villon said in 1460. But that is a mistake if the cash is a penny and the credit a whole lifetime.
There is no moral in this novel; it is not bourgeois; it does not say they were wrong to play when they should have toiled; it just tells what the consequences were. In Greek drama they were beginning, as a society, to discover science, which means causal law. Here in this novel there is Nemesis: not fate, because any one of us could have chosen to stop playing in the street, but, as I narrate from the deepest part of my life and heart, a dreadful Nemesis for those who kept on playing. So, though, was our entire nation at this time. This novel is about more people than I knew personally. Some we all read about in the newspapers. It was, this sitting around with our buddies and bullshitting while making tape-recordings, the bad decision of the decade, the sixties, both in and out of the establishment. And nature cracked down on us. We were forced to stop by things dreadful.
If there was any ‘sin’, it was that these people wanted to keep on having a good time forever, and were punished for that, but, as I say, I feel that, if so, the punishment was far too great, and I prefer to think of it only in a Greek or morally neutral way, as mere science, as deterministic impartial cause-and-effect. I loved them all. Here is the list, to whom I dedicate my love:
* To Gaylene deceased
* To Ray deceased
* To Francy permanent psychosis
* To Kathy permanent brain damage
* To Jim deceased
* To Val massive permanent brain damage
* To Nancy permanent psychosis
* To Joanne permanent brain damage
* To Maren deceased
* To Nick deceased
* To Terry deceased
* To Dennis deceased
* To Phil permanent pancreatic damage
* To Sue permanent vascular damage
* To Jerri permanent psychosis and vascular damage
…and so forth.
In Memoriam. These were comrades whom I had; there are no better. They remain in my mind, and the enemy will never be forgiven. The ‘enemy’ was their mistake in playing. Let them all play again, in some other way, and let them be happy.
Thank you for your attention.
Do what thou wilt, but be aware of the consequences.
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Regards
Woland
Unhand that woman, Sir!
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#36139 - 03/07/10 04:25 PM
Re: Legal smoking herbs
[Re: Ringmaster]
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Meq
Banned
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Registered: 08/28/07
Posts: 861
Loc: UK
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It seems that "Spice" is now a generic name for various artificially-produced marijuana substitutes.
The original Spice (and its variants, including the stronger Spice Gold and Spice Diamond), once openly available from the high street, was banned in the UK the end of last year, after forensic lab tests revealed it contained synthetic cannabinoids including JWH-018. It is now as illegal as real cannabis.
Talk To Frank article on synthetic cannabinoids.
Products like 'Spice' which contain synthetic cannabinoids are Class B controlled drugs. This means that it is against the law to possess them, to give them away or to sell them. Possession can get you five years in prison and/or an unlimited fine. Supplying can get you fourteen years in prison and or an unlimited fine.
However, some other Spice-like products are still available in the UK, some almost as effective as Spice itself. These may also contain synthetic cannabinoids, and if so will also face a ban after facing the forensic scientist's lab.
Salvia divinorum remains legal in the UK, including its highly potent extracts. This is because the psychoactive chemical, Salvinorin A, has a very different chemical structure and way of affecting the brain to other hallucinogenic drugs (hence its much shorter duration), so it is not covered by current drug laws. Past attempts to ban the drug failed to make it through Parliament, as it was not seen to be of sufficient concern.
Edited by Meq (03/07/10 04:53 PM)
Edit Reason: Added more on Salvia divinorum and JWH-018.
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#38455 - 05/12/10 03:23 AM
Re: Legal smoking herbs
[Re: the mite]
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Gareth
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Registered: 05/02/10
Posts: 6
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wild lettuce opiate flower herb:
sinicuichi herb:
khat plant herb:
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#42070 - 08/19/10 02:34 PM
High Tea
[Re: Meq]
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Michael A.Aquino
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Registered: 09/28/08
Posts: 1247
Loc: San Francisco, CA, USA
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Well, I have to tell you a funny story here ...
Back in 1972, when I was on the faculty of the U.S. Army Armor School at Fort Knox, there was the usual soldiers' drug problem on post, which upset the Commanding General. So he had a booklet printed up & distributed to all the troops detailing the evils of pot, LSD, heroin, cocaine, etc. Somewhere amidst all these dire warnings indignant mention was made that some degenerates even got zonked by making tea out of morning glory seeds. Imagine that! 
Do I need to tell you what happened? All of the garden shops for miles around Knox were suddenly swamped with [perfectly legal!] orders & purchases of you-guessed-it. Resulting, subsequently, in a U.S. Army request to all of them up to Louisville saying please please don't fill these orders; Fort Knox has, well, all the pretty flowers it needs.
I don't think the warning booklet mentioned dried banana peels, or there would doubtless have been a run on bananas at the commissary.
Is this a great country or what? 
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Michael A. Aquino
[On Ignore: Dan_Dread, 6Satan6Archist6, Caladrius, MindFux]
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#42075 - 08/19/10 03:05 PM
Re: Legal smoking herbs
[Re: Meq]
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Dedalus
pledge
Registered: 08/13/10
Posts: 51
Loc: Ireland
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In a similar vein, I bought some ground nutmeg from a supermarket about a year ago after hearing it was psychoactive in relatively large doses (Malcolm X reportedly used it while incarcerated, because what prison guard is going to confiscate fucking nutmeg?) I believe the active ingredient is called myristicin, (I didnt really care), and after taking instruction from a couple of webpages, I consumed three tablespoons mixed with milk and a little sugar....and after three hours, became naseous and paranoid. Awesome, thanks nutmeg. I was at home alone, so I staved off the waiting period by playing a litle guitar, an it took me a while to realise how loud and excited I was getting, which I assumed was also due to the nutmeg. The curtains and walls seemed to be billowing a little, but that wasn't as interesting/cool as it was unsettling.
Theres something appealing about buying something in a supermarket/garden centre and getting high off it (and pot is so fucking expensive in Ireland that anythings worth a try), but it all seems to suck so hard that sales of hawaiian baby woodrose, morning glory, nutmeg, etc., are not to my knowledge monitored. If anyones paying attention, its probably the clerks keeping an eye on who buys what so they can follow the strung out looking dude leafing through the seed packets by the aloe vera so they can laugh, and maybe go for a post-work pint.
Edited by Dedalus (08/19/10 03:07 PM)
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Let us represent worthily for once the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us.
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#42100 - 08/20/10 04:52 AM
Re: Legal smoking herbs
[Re: Diavolo]
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6Satan6Archist6
senior member
Registered: 10/16/08
Posts: 2231
Loc: Oregon
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...THC values are slowly going through the roof.What could start as a pleasant experience can easily turn into a nasty one if you buy the wrong kind, or don't know what you are buying.
Just out of curiosity, what sort of "nasty" experiences have you heard people claiming that were the result of smoking pot? I have had some of the strongest stuff you could imagine and I cant imagine how such a thing as a "bad trip" on weed can occur. I mean, I can see someone having a bad experience with really strong LSD or mushroom, but weed? That really just sounds like propaganda from the good old Partnership for a Drug Free America and their buddies at the ONDCP. Reefer Madness, anyone?
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