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From: cavasin@MUSE.CONVEX.COM (Vince Cavasin)
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Date: 1 May 92 07:00:07 GMT
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
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Subject: [l/m 3/17/92] ADDRESSES FAQ (biweekly post)
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This is an automatically generated bi-weekly posting of my addresses list. If
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you have anything to add to this list (comments, missing places), please post
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AND mail me. PLEASE CHECK THE FUCKING LIST TO SEE IF WHAT YOU WANT TO ADD TO
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IT IS ALREADY ON IT FIRST!!
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A few things:
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1. the places listed below are legitamate businesses. Their primary purpose
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for being (well their stated purpose anyway) is NOT to supply heads with stuff
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that will get them high. Do NOT call or write these places acting like you
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plan on using anything they carry for illicit purposes.
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2. I have provided comments on the places that I have personal experience
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with. If you have experience with any of these places, please post or email
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me with your impression of their service, product, etc. If you know of any
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mail order places that carry neat stuff and aren't listed here, PLEASE let me
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know about them somehow. And if you find that I've made a mistake in any of
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the addresses/phone numbers/information presented below, please let me know.
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3. If you have questions about any of the substances or companies mentioned
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here, please POST them if at all possible. If you can't post, email me and
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I'll either try to answer or post it anonymously for you.
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4. You can get catalogs from most of these places by calling or writing. If
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no price is listed for a catalog, it means I'm not sure if the place charges
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for one or not. I usually send a buck when I write for a catalog just to
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avoid the hassle of having them write me back saying "we're sorry, but you
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must include 50 cents when requesting a catalog...." Catalogs from these
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places can range from really informative, well-done booklets to 1 sheet order
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forms.
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5. abbreviations:
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HBWR: Hawaiian Baby Woodrose seeds; one ounce of HBWR contains about 100
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seeds.
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HLWR: Hawaiian Large Woodrose seeds.
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MG: Morning Glory seeds.
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cheers,
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vince
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... of the jungle
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P.O. Box 1801
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Sebastopol, CA 95473
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(707) ???-????
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Carries:
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seeds, plants, and prepared herbs too numerous to mention.
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Comments:
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Very well done catalog; extremely informative. ...of the jungle probably
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carries a wider variety of nifty botanicals than any other mail order place.
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Prices are pretty good; service pretty good.
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MG: 25 seeds/$1.50; HBWR: 11/$2.50; 100/$10
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Island Spore Co.
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P.O. box 8055
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Honolulu, Hawaii 96830
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Carries:
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HBWR, HLWR, Betel Nuts, Kava Kava, Imported Poppy Seeds (species not
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specified), Sensitive plant seeds.
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Comments:
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Took about a month to get their ONE PAGE order sheet in the mail. Extremely
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pricey compared to other vendors. If anyone has any experience with this
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place, please post or email cavasin@convex.com.
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HBWR: 21/$20; 1 oz./$75; 1 lb./$1000 (yeah, right);
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HLWR: 15/$20; 1 oz/$75; 1 lb/$850 (oh, they're givin' them away!!);
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T.A.E.
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1935 S. Plum Grove Rd.
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Suite #348
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Palatine, IL 60067
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(708) 255-4982
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Carries:
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HBWR, HLWR, Kava Kava, Broom, Black Morrocan (lettuce opium "incense"), some
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other stuff.
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Comments:
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Highly recommended. Incredibly fast service (orders filled same day they are
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received; 1 week TOTAL turnaround time for an order placed from TX). Very
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helpful over the phone. Decent prices. Write or call for Free order
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sheet/brochure. A tip: don't mess with the "Black Morrocan", it's useless.
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HBWR: .5 oz/$25; 1 oz/$40; 4 oz/$110; 1 lb/$325;
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HLWR: 2 oz/$30; 8 oz/$90; 1 lb/$150.
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Horus Botanicals
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HCR 82 Box 29
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Salem ARK.
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72576
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Carries:
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Tons of nifty shit. Prices/selection are comparable to ...of the jungle.
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Catalog is big and informative, but not very well put together. Horus carries
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wormwood, opium poppy seeds, yohimbe and Acorus calamus, all of which are
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fairly difficult to find.
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Comments:
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Service leaves something to be desired (long, long
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turnaround time). If ...of the jungle don't have it, Horus probably does;
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you'll just have to wait a little longer to get it.
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MG: "seed packet"/$2.00 (various species available; see catalog for
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details.)
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Magic Garden Herb Co.
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P.O. Box 332
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Fairfax, CA 94930
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(415) 488-4331
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Carries:
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HBWR, HLWR, MG, tons of other herbs, most of which are of little or no
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psychoactive value. Much like a big mail order herb store.
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Comments:
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Longest turnaround of any supplier listed here, with the possible exception of
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Island Spore. Nice selection, good prices. If anyone has any experience with
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Magic Garden, please post or email cavasin@convex.com. I am told their MG
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seeds are NOT treated.
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MG: 7 grams/$1.50; 1 oz./$4.50.
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New Mexico Cactus Research
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P.O. Box 787
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Belen, N.M. 87002
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(505) 864-4027
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Carries:
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Trichocereus Pachanoi cuttings (seasonally); Coryphantha Macromeris cuttings
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(seasonally); the seeds of many trichocereus species (inculding peruvianus);
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several species of Lophophora (no guarantee of getting williamsii); datura
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seeds. Also carries about every variety of cactus extant.
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Comments:
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Really great service. Very helpful over the phone. However, PLEASE remember,
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this place is a LEGITAMATE cactus farm. They are NOT in business for the
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purpose of supplying heads with mescaline-bearing cacti. If you call or
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write, make like a cactologist.
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NMCR's catalog is really a trip. Basically a bunch of poor-quality,
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varying-size photocopies of hand-typed pages listing species, descriptions and
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prices, with some pictures taped on here and there. Kind of challenging to
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find what you're looking for.
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Books by Phone
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Box 522
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Berkeley, CA 94701
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(800) 858-2665
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Carries:
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Books you can't find anywhere else.
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Comments:
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If you can find it someplace else, buy it there. This place is a FUCKING RIP
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OFF. the copy of Adam Gottlieb's _Legal Highs_ I bought from them (a 70 page
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paperback) had a sticker that said $7.95 (which is what I paid) covering up
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the original price of $3.95. Plus they charge extra for personal checks,
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credit cards, and postage. However, they DO carry some really hard to find
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titles, and the service is pretty good; about 2 week turnaround time on a
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phoned-in credit card order. Catalog is pretty good too. If you can't find
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it in their catalog, call and ask and they might be able to get it for you
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(you may have to take out a second mortgage to be able to afford it, but...).
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Loompanics
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P.O. Box 1197
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Port Townsend, WA 98368
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$2.00 catalog
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Carries:
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Interesting books.
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Comments:
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No experience whatsoever with them. If anyone has dealed with Loompanics,
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PLEASE post or email cavasin@convex.com and tell me about it. I am told they
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have fast turnaround and good prices.
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Email comments:
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i've ordered from them twice, pretty good service both times (2.5 & 3
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weeks i think) prices are about the same as my local bookstore charges,
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for the few things i've been able to compare. some seem overly expensive,
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but from the descriptions in the catalog, i'd guess that most are pretty
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reasonable. i don't expect books to be cheap, but $8.95 for something
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like Psychedelic Chemistry is definitely worth it. (~200 pages, well
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bound, trade paperback, glossy cover), some of the other things i've
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gotten from them were not as good in terms of physical quality, but
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they cost less too.
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Laissez-Faire Books
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942 Howard street
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San Francisco, CA 94103
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(800) 326-0996
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No experience with 'em.
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Gardens of the Blue Ridge
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P.O. Box 10
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Pineola, NC 28662
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(704) 733-2417
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Carries:
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Acorus calamus is the only psychoactive plant GBR carries that I know of.
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Comments:
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GBR is an ultra-legitamate greenhouse specializing in hardy native plants.
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They sell mostly seeds, seedlings and plants. Since they don't sell dried
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herbs, leaves, bark, root, or cuttings (like most of the places listed here),
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they probably are of little interest to those of us that don't want to bother
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with gardening. Prepared Calamus root can be obtained from both ...of the
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jungle and Horus.
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Extremely well done catalog is $2.00. However, don't expect to find any
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information on alternative uses of the plants they sell in it.
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AMOK
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P.O. Box 861867 Terminal Annex
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Los Angeles, CA 90086-1867
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similar to loompanics, but many many more titles. the catalog itself is 8.95,
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but its a big 8x12 400 page book. if its not in loompanics or AMOK, i
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doubt its available.
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AMOK's catalog is well worth ordering as a sourcebook and bibliography
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of the bizarre, but I know of at least one person who's had trouble
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ordering stuff from them, and they've been listed in Factsheet Five
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in a "black" list of unreliable vendors. If you can't find it anywhere
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else and are prepared to wait months, go ahead and order, but you've
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been warned... If you live in the Los Angeles area, their bookstore
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is worth visiting.
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Worldwide Curio House
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p.o. box 17095
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minneapolis minn, 55417
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mainly a voodoo supply house, but has a large section of "herbs roots barks
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berries" much more extensive than MGH, and similar in price. they do not carry
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MG or HBWS, however. i think four or five dollars for three catalogues, which
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even if you dont want anything but the herbs, are hilarious(one page has fruit
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shaped refrigerator magnets, the next advertises "genuine human skull. number
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of teeth may vary. $195.00"
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J.L.F.
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p.o. box 184-sc
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elizabethtown, IN 47232
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(812)379-2508
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haven't dealt with these fellows, but they carry some very odd things..
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"30 dried grams red variety amanita muscaria: $60.00"
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they also sell bufotonin toad skins from road kills and various other
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thangs, but the fly agaric(amanita muscaria) is their main product..
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I must add that this place has the most hysterical disclaimer I've ever read
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in my life. An excerpt (typo's of indeterminate origin):
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"The longest disclaimer you've ever seen."
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All merchandise sold in this brochure is poisonous and not intended for
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internal consumption. All items are classified as "NON-FOOD". They are not
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to be eaten or drank. Do not use in any manner unspecified or unauthorized by
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JLF. JLF assumes no liability for unauthorized uses of its products. For
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example (for those who exist soley to keep the human aspect of Murphy's Law
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alive): Do not eat as a food or herbal dietary supplement. Do not drink as a
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beverage or make tea out of. Do not inject in any form. Do not stick, put,
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insert or throw in your or another person's mouth, nose, ear, eye, anus or any
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other orafice that may exist on your or another person's body. Do not wet any
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dried organic with water and let sit and rot, then smear the black
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maggot-infested stinky slop on your or another person's body or insert it
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in any of the orafices previously mentioned. Do not light with fire and use
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that fire to injure yourself or another or any personal or public property.
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Do not leave in the middle of the floor and trip or slip on to injure yourself
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or another. There is not enough room here to list all the possible "do nots".
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If you still can not keep from harming yourself or others or property with JLF
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products then you should probably go to bed and stay there for the rest of
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your life. No, then you would get bed sores and bring suit against the bed or
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sheet manuacturer, or JLF for telling you to do it....
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Call for their brochure; it's free and well worth the laughs.
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Inter Center
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P.O. Box 362
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Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
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The company also has clean morning glory seeds avail.
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also, if youre Really into the whole gettin-weird-stuff-through-the-mail thing,
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you might want to write off to the 3dipswhoaregoD..they have a Very funny
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short newletter that they will send you free(and you will then be forever
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on their mailing list for future issues as well). Back Issues are like
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fifty cents or a dollar, depending on how long the specific issue is..
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the current issue is vol. five. I thought vol. four was really their best
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effort to date.
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anyway, the address is:
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3dips, c/o Catfish
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915 W. Wisconsin Ave., #412
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Milwaukee, WI 53233-2373
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if you're familiar with the Discordians or the Church of the Subgenius, this
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is sort of similar, but theyre not quite so avaricious as the subgenius..
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also, sounds like that FAQ youre compiling will be really hep..i dont think
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i really have anything to contribute tho that you wouldnt find in Legal
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Highs...oh, there is a book available throo Loompanics called "Growing
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the Hallucinagens"..i dont know if yould want to shell out the bux to
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get that but it probably has some relavant info..
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From what I can recall, John Birrenbach has "acquired the rights" (oxymoron?)
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to grow Cannabis hemp on a test plot somewhere in Minnesota. I'm unsure as to
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the exact status/success of this situation, but Birrenbach and his
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organization have not been known to botch things. More info's probably
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available:
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The Institute for H.E.M.P. (Horticulture Education on the heMp Plant)
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P.O. Box 65130
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St. Paul, MN 55165
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--(612)22202628 --> {9-5 M-F, Central Time}
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FAX--(612)77704853 [This is John Birrenbach's Organization]
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On the West Coast, try contacting:
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H.E.M.P. (Help End Marijuana Prohibition)
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5632 Van Nuys Blvd., #210
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Van Nuys, CA 91401
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--(213)39201806 [Jack Herer's Organization]
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OR
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B.A.C.H. (Business Alliance for Commerce in Hemp)
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P.O. Box 71093
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Los Angeles, CA 90071-0093
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--(213)28804152 [Lynn Osborn(??)'s Organization) ]
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[These folks bend over backwards for ya]
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> Does anyone have any good mail-order sources for it?
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Well, I bought mine locally, but here's the address of the company on the
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bottle that made my doses:
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BDI Pharmaceuticals
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A Division of Body Dynamics, Inc.
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P.O. Box 11063
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Indianapolis, Indiana 46201
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Try snail-mailing them a request for information on how to order ephedrine for
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your "asthma condition".
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In article <1992Feb27.011551.6391@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> drk20509@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (mighty odin) writes:
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> Is smoking the flakes going to be active? Does smoking somehow
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>get it to interact with MAO inhibitors?
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Smoking skin flakes should work without MAO inhibition, but you must be
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careful because one gram of skin gives enough 5-MeO-DMT for 10-30 trips.
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Bufo alvarius lives in the Sonoran desert (a leaflet about B. alvarius
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and using it might be available from
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Venom Press
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Box 2863
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Denton TX 76202
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if Venom Press still exists).
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Florida Mycology Research Center
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PO Box 8104
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Pensacola, Florida 32505
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phone 904/327 4378
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A good source for mushroom spores, live cultures, growing media,
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tools, info booklets and videos etc. Spores and cultures of over a hundred
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different species, including more Psilocybe species you knew existed and
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"Lepiota peele". Fun item is Composted cow manure, "100% natural
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composted cow pies... Compost is already taken by wild mushroom
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mycelium... NOT INTENDED TO PRODUCE EDIBLE MUSHROOMS.. Mushrooms in the
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Panaeolus and Psilocybe genus is likely.. 1 pound $25". Psilocybe
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cubensis spores $5, culture $50. To order the culture you
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need to use university or business letterhead or be a member of
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"FMRC's Independent Mushroom Growers Network".
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you can order Jack Herer's _The Emperor Wears No Clothes_ from:
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HEMP Publishing
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5632 Van Nuys Blvd.
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Van Nuys, CA 91401
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