I hope I spelled that right. Anyway, what is it? What does it do to you, how is it made/prepared? I've always been curious about the stuff.
And it is Mescaline. Dont really feel like explain much at the moment, it comes from cacti. http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/mescaline/mescaline.shtml
www.mescaline.com www.mescaline.org www.erowid.org & the top forum here "cacti delecti" www.lycaeum.org www.entheogen.com
Yeah, it's the active ingredient in such cacti as the famed Peyote, and basically it's a psychoactive psychedellic similar to shrooms and acid, but obviously with it's own characteristics. I've yet to try it, but it's on my "To Do" list. If you want to try it, I would reccomend getting some Peruvian Torch cactus from various websites.
What doesn't make any sense is that peyote is illegal in the US... so that's right someone else, just a bunch of people who don't even know you can tell you that you can't consume a plant that grows out of the ground that god, or whoever/whatever created. Might as well tell me I can't eat a fucking tomato.
That´s the problem with politicians - they think they have the right to tell you, what to do with the things, the gods gave us...
Same with marijuana. I guess god made a mistake when he made these plants. Outlaw nature, but keep the breweries and cigarette companies around. I guess they just pay more campaign contributions.
One of the main forces in banning marijuana in the US was the cotton industry, because hemp was a strong (and cheap) competitor in the textile manufaction. What a laugh: a drug that wasn´t banned because of its psychedelic use, but because of its side products. But Jack´s right: it´s a shame that alcohol is legal and cannabis not, although alcohol is definitely the more dangerous drug.
Flow: exactly. I tell people all the time, hemp was made illegal because the first head of the dea had friends in big industry that would get destroyed if we could grow domestic hemp. But they outlawed it, and there is a high tax on importing hemp. Cash Rules Everything Around Me.
Hey earlysunsets: I've read up on a lot of things, and I really doubt that's the reason. Could you show me some sources? Cash runs everything. Hemp is cheap as hell to grow domestically and it's way stronger than other materials. The first head of the Bureau of Narcotics had friends in big business including the cotton industry. Sounds a lot more plausible than segregation... for christ's sake we segregated blacks from whites for a long time and it had nothing to do with marijuana. I don't see the connection. Just because they said that weed was what made blacks and mexicans crazy just means they are scapegoats. If you've ever taken an American History class you should know that everybody but the white man is the first choice scapegoat, and cash runs everything. Just a quick snippet of info I got real quick: "Hearst and Anslinger were then supported by Dupont chemical company and various pharmaceutical companies in the effort to outlaw cannabis. Dupont had patented nylon, and wanted hemp removed as competition. The pharmaceutical companies could neither identify nor standardize cannabis dosages, and besides, with cannabis, folks could grow their own medicine and not have to purchase it from large companies. " C.R.E.A.M
I have some friends around here in Germany, who are working on the foundation of a hemp party. They´re planning to run for the parliament election next year. Their idea is simple: in Germany, only one person decides, which drug becomes legal or illegal - the federal secretary for drug purposes (I tried to translate the German word "Bundesdrogenbeauftragter" as accurate as possible). So the only thing you have to do is to get in that position. To go to parliament, you need 5% of the votes, that´s approx. 2.2 million. It´s supposed, that there are more than 3.5 million people in Germany who smoke pot more or less regularly, 3 million of them are older than 18 years, so they can vote. So it should be no problem to reach that first goal. But even if they should fail and get only, let´s say, 1 million votes, this would be 1 million votes for the legalization of cannabis. This should force the politicians to act. :X
