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Harvesting trees to make ecstasy drug

Goodluck extracting trees for sassafras, thats the same as makin coke from leaves ud need tons to make it worthwhile.
 
Pie said:
i can hardly fathom a world without tuna, flake, flathead etc in 40 years - They're not exactly endangered are they.
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I know for a fact that gummy shark which was the main source of flake in southern Australia for decades has been decimated by long line fishing to a small % of what it was 50 years ago.

For this very reason you are lucky to get real gummy shark when you order flake these days. School shark and blue shark (blue shark is left in freezers for months to leach out all the mercury) are now sold in it's place due to over fishing.

As for tuna, it would have to be one of the most endangered fish species on earth...

Nearing Extinction - The species in the greatest danger of slipping into extinction is the western north Atlantic population (stock) of bluefin tuna. Thanks to 4 decades of overfishing, it has been driven to just 3% of its 1960 or pre-longlining abundance - a decline of 97% - as shown in ICCAT's figure at left. (ICCAT is the international commission that claims management authority over all tunas, marlin, swordfish and the other big fish of the Atlantic) In comparison to bluefin, Atlantic white marlin abundance has been driven to 6% of its pre-longlining abundance, and Atlantic blue marlin has been driven to 20% of its pre-longlining abundance.
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^ I've always maintained that I should be able to get some tuna-friendly dolphin at my local supermarket ;)


Thanks for the bump... missed this first time round.
 
heres a photo of the tree --->

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Safrole-rich oil tree

maybe someone who owns alot of land should grow these trees as its not illegal to ... :)
 
i think of animal extinction as just mother natures way of contributing to the plight of Noah and his Ark.

Its basically comes down to each critter's ability to quickly adapt to the changing world - if they die then their genetic make up was obviously inadequate and would only taint the gene pool if kept alive.
 
'Ecstasy oil' seized in Pursat

Friday, 28 August 2009 15:04 James O'Toole and Tha Piseth

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FORESTRY Administration officials seized 2,600 litres of sassafras oil used to manufacture the drug MDMA, or "Ecstasy", last week in a major drug bust in Pursat province, government officials and conservationists said Thursday.

The oil, which is extracted from the wood of trees known in Khmer as mreah prov, was discovered on August 19 in barrels below the false bottom of a dump truck driven by Lim Pim, a 27-year-old Vietnamese man who was arrested at the scene, according to the environmental group Conservation International (CI). He was driving to Pursat town from the Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary in Veal Veng district.

Mok Dara, director of the Interior Ministry's Anti-Drug Department, said the oil has been regulated by drug control laws since 2006 due to its role in drug or illicit substance production, and that authorities around the country have become increasingly focused on it.

"There are five cases already that have happened in Cambodia in 2009, in Battambang, Kampong Chhnang and Pursat provinces," he said.

Last week's arrest in Pursat was made by rangers from the Forestry Administration's Central Cardamom Protected Forest enforcement team, a targeted project funded in part by CI.

CI became interested in this issue in the early 2000s, after noting the severe toll that the harvesting of the oil had taken on the Kingdom's forests, said David Emmett, the organisation's regional director.

Oil extracted from trees in Cambodia is typically transported across the border to Vietnam for refinement.

To generate enough oil for cross-border trafficking, Emmett said, producers cut down trees at a rapid rate, a process devastating to local ecosystems.

"It's like this cancerous growth in the forest," Emmett said. Cambodian production is centred in the Cardamom mountains of the southwest, and in the forests of the northeast.

Rural producers can expect to make around US$10 per kilogram of oil, Emmett said, "but when it gets out to Phnom Penh and Hanoi, it becomes massively more valuable".

Seng Bora, also of CI, estimated that the oil seized in last week's bust would have netted producers perhaps US$50,000, though by the time it reached the border, it could have been worth up to $270,000.

In June, rangers seized 5.2 tonnes of the oil in a single bust - the largest ever of sassafras oil in Cambodia, officials said at the time.
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http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2009082828060/National-news/ecstasy-oil-seized-in-pursat.html
 
aussie trees

Just out of interest are there any indigenous Australian trees high in safrole?
And could someone give the name of the tree in the photo above?
 
PsiloSubNaut said:
I know for a fact that gummy shark which was the main source of flake in southern Australia for decades has been decimated by long line fishing to a small % of what it was 50 years ago.

For this very reason you are lucky to get real gummy shark when you order flake these days. School shark and blue shark (blue shark is left in freezers for months to leach out all the mercury) are now sold in it's place due to over fishing.

As for tuna, it would have to be one of the most endangered fish species on earth...
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I've worked on many a shark boat down here in South Australia and gummy shark was by far the most species that we caught man.

I also worked in a fish factory, do you know how many tonnes of pure gummy shark we sold to melbourne?

The shark industry is one of the least over fished man.

The real reason your lucky to get gummy shark in a fish and chip shop is, its that much cheaper to sell school shark and what have you and charge the same price for gummy.

But as for there being not many gummy shark left, thats complete bullshit, i know this first hand, think deadliest catch.%)

Also there is way more boats that use the conventional 4km net, which just sits on the bottom like a fence, no bait at all, and the shark get tangled up in it.

But shark fishing is pretty messed up. While aussies will sit and complain about asians finning sharks and and throwing the carcas back, here in australia we have 100's of licensed boats that catch sharks in nets, so they get tanlged the fuck up and go fucking nuts until they're insanely tanlged up and die, or the ones that dont die, get gutted alive on the deck minutes after coming up from the water. How is what we do any better than finning the sharks? Apart from we dont waste as much, but here in australia the fins are still sold legally, we're still slaughtering the fuck out of sharks.

But people only seem to think this happens in asia.
 
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The drug ecstasy (or MDMA) is made from safrole oil, much of it produced illicitly in the Cardamom Mountains of western Cambodia. An article in GlobalPost reports how production of this oil for the drug is deforesting this area, causing erosion and polluting nearby streams with the distilleries’ waste. The western Cardamoms are also home to more than 80 threatened species, such as the Asian elephant, Indochinese tiger and Siamese crocodile, according to the conservation nonprofit Fauna and Flora International. That group, the report says, has been helping local authorities stage raids on safrole oil distilleries, most of which are found in the Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary.

Safrole oil comes from a tree known in the region as Mreah prew phnom. It takes four of these trees to produce one 40-gallon barrel of safrole oil and six less valuable trees to use as firewood to process just one Mreah prew phnom tree.
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http://www.newsreview.com/reno/content?oid=1211132
 
Dont worry, we have eucalypts, we have eugenol, now if someone could be fucked we wouldnt have to deal with piperazines.

For the record, safrole isnt the only starting materiel, it is merely popular cause 15 years ago you could buy it dirt cheap by the kilo with no questions
 
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