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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 22 2005 at 06:57
Originally posted by o0mr_bill0o o0mr_bill0o wrote:



Originally posted by goose goose wrote:

Tobacco, salvia, magic mushrooms, that thing that
South American tribes take which I forget the name of but begins with
an A, I think. And pot is manufactured, it's only the leaf itself which isn't.

edit: reading a little it seems Ayahuacsa needs boiling or
something, but I do find that morning glory seeds are a bit psychedelic.



indeed.  you are talking about ayahuasca, which is really an
amalgam of many different compounds, namely DMT and than an MAOI,
typically harmala or harmaline.  mescaline is also found in a
number of different cacti, most notably peyote and to a lesser extent
san pedro.  Morning glory seeds contain LSA, an analog of
LSD.  Opium is straight from the poppies, no refinement
necessary.  And although cocaine hydrochloride requires extensive
processing, psychoactive effects can be gleaned simply from chewing the
coca plant.  ibogaine is also an incredibly potent natural
psychedelic in plant form.  really, saying that marijuana is the
only natural drug is simply ignorant, and bordering on moronic.
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True, there are hundred of power plants.

MJ is plant's flowers while H is resin collected from either only flowers or from the whole plant, depending on the process used.
Another issue is the selection/hybridation of MJ plants which allows cultivation and harvest of high quality MJ in temperate areas. It even grows in Alaska!

Ayahuasca is a "cook receipt" including many things.

Yes, we have to make distinction between natural "drugs", either under raw or concentrated form:
MJ, hash, poppies, OP, LSA seeds, LSA extract, Salvia leaves, Salvia 5X, Coca leaves, Peyotl, etc... and on another hand, chemically transformed drugs like LSD, Heroin, cocaine, crack, mescaline.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 22 2005 at 05:14
But the leaf can literally be smoked straight from the plant, wheras the resin needs collecting somehow, doesn't it? That's what I meant by differentiating (aka splitting hairs )
 
I'm not misinformed that hash is marijuana at all, but you were talking about pot as opposed to green in the post I quoted.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 22 2005 at 03:03
Originally posted by goose goose wrote:

Originally posted by kirk kirk wrote:

 we weren't discussing hashish. we were discussing marijuana, aka the herb.

Maybe we would have been, but you brought up pot, aka hash!


hashish and marijuana are basically the same; both are products of Cannabis Indica, a variation of the hemp plant. hashish is made from the resin, marijuana from the leaves of the plant; the active substance in both is tetrahydrocannabinol.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2005 at 23:24

   let's not use the term "moronic" for a difference of perspective.

 although he's misinformed that hash is marijuana, he's still entitled to

his opinion...however misinformed it is.

>  Opium is straight from the poppies, no refinement necessary. 

  not true. opium is the first step in refinement. further processing

turns it to heroin. the sap from the poppy is clear, milky. opium is black.

the next step is black tar heroin(trust me, i'm from seattle).

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2005 at 22:38
Originally posted by goose goose wrote:

Tobacco, salvia, magic mushrooms, that thing that South American tribes take which I forget the name of but begins with an A, I think. And pot is manufactured, it's only the leaf itself which isn't.
edit: reading a little it seems Ayahuacsa needs boiling or something, but I do find that morning glory seeds are a bit psychedelic.


indeed.  you are talking about ayahuasca, which is really an amalgam of many different compounds, namely DMT and than an MAOI, typically harmala or harmaline.  mescaline is also found in a number of different cacti, most notably peyote and to a lesser extent san pedro.  Morning glory seeds contain LSA, an analog of LSD.  Opium is straight from the poppies, no refinement necessary.  And although cocaine hydrochloride requires extensive processing, psychoactive effects can be gleaned simply from chewing the coca plant.  ibogaine is also an incredibly potent natural psychedelic in plant form.  really, saying that marijuana is the only natural drug is simply ignorant, and bordering on moronic.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2005 at 22:16
Originally posted by BePinkTheater BePinkTheater wrote:

Originally posted by alan_pfeifer alan_pfeifer wrote:

Originally posted by fender101 fender101 wrote:

I think its great - If more bands had done drugs the music would be even better

That's got to be, in my opinion, one of the dumbest statements I've ever heard.  Look at most any band from the 80's,is the music really that much better?

Look at the beatles before and after they did drugs. The noly band that got better once they we're off drugs was aerosmith, the rest were better stoned

I want DT to start getting blazed

Portnoy was actually a big alchohol and pot user, he quit after his daughter was born.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2005 at 21:56
Originally posted by kirk kirk wrote:

 we weren't discussing hashish. we were discussing marijuana, aka the herb.

Maybe we would have been, but you brought up pot, aka hash!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2005 at 16:46
Originally posted by alan_pfeifer alan_pfeifer wrote:

Originally posted by fender101 fender101 wrote:

I think its great - If more bands had done drugs the music would be even better

That's got to be, in my opinion, one of the dumbest statements I've ever heard.  Look at most any band from the 80's,is the music really that much better?

Look at the beatles before and after they did drugs. The noly band that got better once they we're off drugs was aerosmith, the rest were better stoned

I want DT to start getting blazed

I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2005 at 15:14
Originally posted by Revan Revan wrote:

It's calling my attention that prog bands don't usually take drugs, is
that true? The only time i heard something like that was when Fish said
that Misplaced Childhood's story was created in an "acid treep"


Don't confuse current "prog" and real guenuine prog.
Virtually all bands were on acid or at least MJ, except zappa who was against "drugs", but his musicians were not...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2005 at 14:21

 we weren't discussing hashish. we were discussing marijuana, aka the herb.

Etymology: Middle English herbe, from Old French, from Latin herba

..if that's important somehow.


Main Entry: herb
Pronunciation: '&rb, US also and British usually 'h&rb
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
1 : a seed-producing annual, biennial, or perennial that does not develop persistent woody tissue but dies down at the end of a growing season
2 : a plant or plant part valued for its medicinal, savory, or aromatic qualities
3 slang : MARIJUANA 2
- herb·like /'(h)&r-"blIk/ adjective
- herby /'(h)&r-bE/ adjective

 i'm breaking from the topic after this. it's a ridiculous subject to begin with.

 of course most of the 70's proggers were writng on various mind altering substances.

 and you know else? probably fornicating. .

 i should say, i haven't used an illegal drug in years.

it's just that the harm level doesn't match the hysteria.

as les claypool said "more people have died from eating cheese than from marijuana".

p e a c e out

kirk

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2005 at 13:45
Originally posted by kirk kirk wrote:

 

from webster's-

 Main Entry: 2manufacture
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -tured; man·u·fac·tur·ing /-'fak-ch&-ri[ng], -'fak-shri[ng]/
transitive senses
 : to make from raw materials by hand or by machinery b : to produce according to an

Hash is made from the raw material cannabis plant by squeezing it and stuff - I don't know the exact process. Marijuana isn't manufactured, for sure, but hash is certainly:
 
Originally posted by wikipedia wikipedia wrote:

A drug is any substance that can be used to modify a chemical process or processes in the body, for example to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, enhance a performance or ability, or to alter states of mind. The word "drug" is etymologically derived from the Dutch/Low German word "droog", which means "dry", since in the past, most drugs were dried plant parts.

Now I'm not going to call that the outright truth, since it's quoted from wiki, but the etymology is quite telling, assuming it's correct.

 

http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry_main/50070232?query_type =word&queryword=drug&first=1&max_to_show=10& sort_type=alpha&search_id=I8yh-HkudFf-1942&result_pl ace=1&case_id=I8yh-jvrbbJ-1946&hilite=50070232  also agrees on the first bit, although it doesn't mention any etymology.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2005 at 13:12
Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

Originally posted by krauthead krauthead wrote:

Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

Originally posted by krauthead krauthead wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Guru Guru guitarist Roland Schaeffer answered the question of "Elektrolurch" Mani Neumeier "Was bedeutet eigentlich der Name Guru Guru?" ("What does the name Guru Guru mean, by the way?"; this is one of the questions the Elektrolurch asks the band) with "Täglich fit mit 2 Gramm sh*t" (a little difficult to translate into English, but it is as if he said "an apple a day keeps the doctor away", only replacing "apple" with "2 grams of hashish") on the album "Guru Guru Live". And they announced they would now play the "silent trumpet" on stage in one concert, after which someone with a trumpet appeared on stage, and into the horn they had stuffed a gigantic joint. They all took a deep draw, and then they gave the trumpet to the audience. I know this from tales of my brother, who saw them on the 1976 or 1977 Brain Festival in Essen (don't know the exact year at the moment). Also they definitely didn't have a track named "Der LSD-Marsch" ("The LSD-March") on their first album for nothing.
Gong, Hawkwind and Amon Düül 2 were excessive drug users too. Ash Ra Tempel and the Cosmic Jokers (basically the same band) were befriended with LSD-Guru Timothy Leary, which certainly says something about them too. Let's face it: Most of the early Krautrock is heavily drug-influenced.

Thx for the info Freide, I didn't knew all this 

Yes the early Krautrock is very drug-influenced and I'm not saying that all of them did drugs but even if bands like Amon Düül II would come out to the light and say that they were against drugs I wouldn't believe it one second.


you only have to read the biography of Amon Düül ("Tanz der Lemminge" by Ingeborg Schober, who for some time was befriended with them) to know that they were big pot- and acidheads and did mandrax too

Hi Jean and thx btw 

Sounds cool... never heard of that, does it exist in English language?


not that I know of, sorry

That's ok Jean 

Thanks, it was some serious good info anyway 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2005 at 13:04
Originally posted by krauthead krauthead wrote:

Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

Originally posted by krauthead krauthead wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Guru Guru guitarist Roland Schaeffer answered the question of "Elektrolurch" Mani Neumeier "Was bedeutet eigentlich der Name Guru Guru?" ("What does the name Guru Guru mean, by the way?"; this is one of the questions the Elektrolurch asks the band) with "Täglich fit mit 2 Gramm sh*t" (a little difficult to translate into English, but it is as if he said "an apple a day keeps the doctor away", only replacing "apple" with "2 grams of hashish") on the album "Guru Guru Live". And they announced they would now play the "silent trumpet" on stage in one concert, after which someone with a trumpet appeared on stage, and into the horn they had stuffed a gigantic joint. They all took a deep draw, and then they gave the trumpet to the audience. I know this from tales of my brother, who saw them on the 1976 or 1977 Brain Festival in Essen (don't know the exact year at the moment). Also they definitely didn't have a track named "Der LSD-Marsch" ("The LSD-March") on their first album for nothing.
Gong, Hawkwind and Amon Düül 2 were excessive drug users too. Ash Ra Tempel and the Cosmic Jokers (basically the same band) were befriended with LSD-Guru Timothy Leary, which certainly says something about them too. Let's face it: Most of the early Krautrock is heavily drug-influenced.

Thx for the info Freide, I didn't knew all this 

Yes the early Krautrock is very drug-influenced and I'm not saying that all of them did drugs but even if bands like Amon Düül II would come out to the light and say that they were against drugs I wouldn't believe it one second.


you only have to read the biography of Amon Düül ("Tanz der Lemminge" by Ingeborg Schober, who for some time was befriended with them) to know that they were big pot- and acidheads and did mandrax too

Hi Jean and thx btw 

Sounds cool... never heard of that, does it exist in English language?


not that I know of, sorry
just checked with amazon, and they only have a German edition. so it seems not


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2005 at 13:00
Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

Originally posted by krauthead krauthead wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Guru Guru guitarist Roland Schaeffer answered the question of "Elektrolurch" Mani Neumeier "Was bedeutet eigentlich der Name Guru Guru?" ("What does the name Guru Guru mean, by the way?"; this is one of the questions the Elektrolurch asks the band) with "Täglich fit mit 2 Gramm sh*t" (a little difficult to translate into English, but it is as if he said "an apple a day keeps the doctor away", only replacing "apple" with "2 grams of hashish") on the album "Guru Guru Live". And they announced they would now play the "silent trumpet" on stage in one concert, after which someone with a trumpet appeared on stage, and into the horn they had stuffed a gigantic joint. They all took a deep draw, and then they gave the trumpet to the audience. I know this from tales of my brother, who saw them on the 1976 or 1977 Brain Festival in Essen (don't know the exact year at the moment). Also they definitely didn't have a track named "Der LSD-Marsch" ("The LSD-March") on their first album for nothing.
Gong, Hawkwind and Amon Düül 2 were excessive drug users too. Ash Ra Tempel and the Cosmic Jokers (basically the same band) were befriended with LSD-Guru Timothy Leary, which certainly says something about them too. Let's face it: Most of the early Krautrock is heavily drug-influenced.

Thx for the info Freide, I didn't knew all this 

Yes the early Krautrock is very drug-influenced and I'm not saying that all of them did drugs but even if bands like Amon Düül II would come out to the light and say that they were against drugs I wouldn't believe it one second.


you only have to read the biography of Amon Düül ("Tanz der Lemminge" by Ingeborg Schober, who for some time was befriended with them) to know that they were big pot- and acidheads and did mandrax too

Hi Jean and thx btw 

Sounds cool... never heard of that, does it exist in English language?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2005 at 13:00
Originally posted by MorgothSunshine MorgothSunshine wrote:

Are drugs MORE common in prog?

I think so...

 


So do I. Well, at least the psychedeilc/space prog. I mean dose names speak for themself don't they!? Pink Floyd are full of drug-referens.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2005 at 12:53
Originally posted by krauthead krauthead wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Guru Guru guitarist Roland Schaeffer answered the question of "Elektrolurch" Mani Neumeier "Was bedeutet eigentlich der Name Guru Guru?" ("What does the name Guru Guru mean, by the way?"; this is one of the questions the Elektrolurch asks the band) with "Täglich fit mit 2 Gramm sh*t" (a little difficult to translate into English, but it is as if he said "an apple a day keeps the doctor away", only replacing "apple" with "2 grams of hashish") on the album "Guru Guru Live". And they announced they would now play the "silent trumpet" on stage in one concert, after which someone with a trumpet appeared on stage, and into the horn they had stuffed a gigantic joint. They all took a deep draw, and then they gave the trumpet to the audience. I know this from tales of my brother, who saw them on the 1976 or 1977 Brain Festival in Essen (don't know the exact year at the moment). Also they definitely didn't have a track named "Der LSD-Marsch" ("The LSD-March") on their first album for nothing.
Gong, Hawkwind and Amon Düül 2 were excessive drug users too. Ash Ra Tempel and the Cosmic Jokers (basically the same band) were befriended with LSD-Guru Timothy Leary, which certainly says something about them too. Let's face it: Most of the early Krautrock is heavily drug-influenced.

Thx for the info Freide, I didn't knew all this 

Yes the early Krautrock is very drug-influenced and I'm not saying that all of them did drugs but even if bands like Amon Düül II would come out to the light and say that they were against drugs I wouldn't believe it one second.


you only have to read the biography of Amon Düül ("Tanz der Lemminge" by Ingeborg Schober, who for some time was befriended with them) to know that they were big pot- and acidheads and did mandrax too


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2005 at 12:36

Are drugs MORE common in prog?

I think so...

 

For every truth even the contrary is true...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2005 at 12:36

  those are plants and fungi. my point exactly.

 they contain varying degrees of mind alerting compounds,

but they're not "drugs". "drugs" are manufactured..by drug companies...

...sold in drug stores. too much of almost any plant can be toxic.

  we must have a different definition of "drugs"..or "druqks"

>  pot is manufactured, it's only the leaf itself which isn't.

    wheat is grown. pasta is manufactured from it.

 coca leaves are grown. cocaine, heroin is manufactured from it.

  what you're referring to is processing for consumption.

from webster's-

 Main Entry: 2manufacture
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -tured; man·u·fac·tur·ing /-'fak-ch&-ri[ng], -'fak-shri[ng]/
transitive senses
 : to make from raw materials by hand or by machinery b : to produce according to an organized plan and with division of labor
 : INVENT, FABRICATE
 : to produce as if by manufacturing : CREATE

  where the hell is the dutch guy?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2005 at 11:54
Tobacco, salvia, magic mushrooms, that thing that South American tribes take which I forget the name of but begins with an A, I think. And pot is manufactured, it's only the leaf itself which isn't.
edit: reading a little it seems Ayahuacsa needs boiling or something, but I do find that morning glory seeds are a bit psychedelic.


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