A cactus is a cactus. Kokopelli grew them in the window and if someone asked, they would cut the top off, remove slices and put the top bit (with skin) back so the plant continued to grow. So it wasn't dried and the 'window' between slicing and tasting was a matter of seconds. I understood it to be the case that no plant is per se illegal, but 'preparation' and distribution are.
On a related topic
@fastandbulbous pointed out how some fungi take tryptophan and produce psilocybin. They made the simple observation that any tryptophan derivative would be 4-hydroxylated and N-methylated (or dimethylated) by the fungi so in theory, an inactive N-monosubstituted tryptophan derivative would yield N-methyl-N-<whatever> 4-OH active. 4OH-MET likely to be good.
I don't keep up with such things but I assume that since plants and animals can be selectively bred for certain characteristics, it may be possible to cross-breed fungi to optimize active content.
I only know a little bit about it but Tazmanian Alkaloids bred the 'Norman Strain' which was a cross between an oriental poppy and an opium poppy. Since the result only produced thebaine and oripavine, it need not be grown inside heavily guarded fields. But IF someone had seeds of that strain, it would be interesting BUT I hasten to add that it also carries risks. If reticuline had an altered N-substituant, would that then produce verious derivative? I don't know. But some idiot would just cash in on the misary of others. For me, a cheaper way to produce naloxone OR something like the N-allyl homologue of 6-MMDM which MAY be more effective in the treatment of overdoses.
As a friend noted, 'going to bed when you want and locking your own door may seem trivial, but they are not'. I've ALWAYS visited if a VO popped through my letterbox and it's amazing how people much closer to an inmate just don't go and how quickly they forget. Person could have something to look forward to, something to keep them going. But no, it seems people don't care.
I've ALWAYS stuck to my triad of rules.
I even asked KH why on earth he insisted on making the one lysergamide that was controlled and why not a legal homologe? He couldn't even explain it to himself BUT I have read Eric Berne's 1950s coffee-table book 'Games People Play' and the more I hear, the more I think he (Berne) was on to something. In essence, it's hide-and-seek for adults. The 'thrill' of getting away with it combined with the monkey logic of presuming if a person got away with it for a while, somehow it becomes less dangerous when in fact it's only ever going to become MORE dangerous.
Similar story to a couple of other people I knew back then. They could opt for something legal which was also cheaper and better, but for whatever reasons, they took a perverse pleasure in it. I suppose people who cave dive, freefall or whatever, it's all about LIKING the risk.
I am highly risk-averse. I suggest when born, we are all given an unknown amount of good luck but we use up that luck without it ever becoming wisdom. Try as I might, I know of no way to measure luck and act on the presumtion that I used all of mine doing dumb things. Not illegal, just stupid.
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