Descent into madness

This is the sort of thing that has blown my mind recently. I did a bit on drugs a few years ago. Not actual drugs, but a post, the main plot point being, it may not make you a killer but it does fuck with your memory and shit. 

It took me watching History Debunked on Youtube to open my mind on a few things about drugs. Full disclosure, I don't really agree with him on most stuff, he reminds me of the rabbit from Forest Fr1ends and whatever hot take he normally pushes, the comment section is worse by a good magnitude.

And yet... 

There is a type of person who shouldn't smoke weed, double if you smoke skunk, and it's not who you think.

If you have a history of mental illness. Stay away. I know its non PC to say certain groups and races are more susceptible to schizophrenia. But if you are from a blame background, then really don't.

The genetic thing is interesting and such, but, I'll say it again if you have a history of mental illness in your family, don't bother.

Police, beauty and K9

Fans of strange TV rejoice, as Propeller tv have picked up Police Beauty and K9 for showing.  Saw this while having nothing to watch on a Thursday and periodically come back to it as its mesmerisingly awful.  

Reminiscent of NHKWorld  a news channel that was a weird mix of News and safe space, this evokes the same feeling as bugger all really happens.  Set in Beijing its an all female dog patrol unit that never fights any crime.  There is You You who is  pretty and I think owns the big Lab Cherry there is also Ni Na who owns a Springer Spaniel (a Howl) but in English her name is the sound of a police siren makes (we don't have much onomatopoeia but we are proud of this).  Oh and did we say that nothing happens.

Tuesday after world cup is case in point, a woman threatens to kill herself because her cat Little Emperor has gone missing after her derpy boyfriend let it out after a row they had. (and they are all its here all critters seem to be genderless but I digress)  The team are mobilised and You You says that her dog can sniff it out, cue brave doggo sniffing out embarrassed kitteh hiding out in a stairwell.  The woman does not kill herself and a lecture is given to them about considering Little Emperors feelings when next they have a barney.

Oh and the voice acting in this is wonderful the boyfriend  comes across as retarded and the girlfriend haughty. If you've ever seen telenovela dubbed you'll know the level of voice acting here.

Back to the show and our girls stop to pick up a run over mutt they spot on the ring road out of town and take it back to their local neighbourhood vets.  In the only piece of drama, their superiour and the vet decide on a name for our injured pupper. 

How about Wonder squeaks one guy.  no it was found on the fifth ring road out of town so why don't we call it fifth ring.  I'm guessing its better in Chinese but our hapless doggo is named fifth ring and the rest of the show is his battle to regain the use of his back legs.

The ending theme is the sort of thing that would grace a romance anime and fits in with the strange incidental music as a whole.

A word of warning there seems to be no English subs up on Youtube at the moment though Propeller are showing it with English Subs and dubs.  Which is how I've been shitposting about it here.

Yesasia have Mandarin TV Box sets for sale if you speak chinese though as noted the whole series seems to be up on Youtube.

Anyway UK viewers its on Sky 185 at 8:45 PM weeknights.

 

Peyote and other Psychoactive Cacti

A biased book review of sorts.

Picked this up from a charity shop in Camden for a quid.  Judging from the price on the cover someone initially paid £20 for this and really can't think why. 

First of all are you a stoner, a pot head or a hippie, then you may get £20 worth from this. Especially if you are actually going to use a plant, that is from the UK perspective, better off grown as a show plant.  There are a few chapters that I've not read yet, mostly about preparing mescaline from the raw Peyote, but what I have read its that its mostly written from the standpoint of a psychonaut.

Here are some facts about Lophophora Williamsii here (wiki article actually goes into more depth than the book) and if you want some pics, here's cactus guide with a few notes on forms and varieties. 

To be honest its not just Peyote as there is a few bits on San Pedro Cactus (A.K.A grafting stock) too as well as some of the smaller genera of plants, Ariocarpus, Aztekium and Obregonia that contain psycho active ingredients to some degree.  Mostly though they are just broken down to their constituent chemicals, in the description and such and yes, any sane person would grow them to show, as all three species are alsochoice, small plants that take up very little room and are known for slowness of growth.  

As the book was printed in 1997 the names need updating, so Dolicothele is much better known as part of Mammilaria today (and was back then, seriously did they grab them from Britton and Rose).  Cultivation wise its not bad though we don't need a shade house here in the UK as light levels are pitiful at best. Hydroponic growth is mainly used for stuff that are tricky on their own roots such as the more tender ! Asclepiads and Melocacti, I've had no problem growing Peyote on its own roots even surviving in an unheated greenhouse and the kill winter of 2010.

Legality its a grey area for stuff, you can get the taller Echinopsis sometimes as well as the smaller species.  I got my Lophophora as a kid from Syon House garden center back in the 80's but its available from cactus sellers from time to time and yes they know all about this too.

Finally, and this is anecdotal evidence, from talks and listening in to conversations.  There is bugger all peyote in cultivated specimens, plus its a really horrible trip, bitter, puking and shitting everywhere apparently not that I've tried. 

The book isn't bad, its going to give you the basics on growing and grafting which will help up the growth rate (did I say its slow growing) and a bit on law and shamanic usage.  Its not bad but more of a curiosity.

Finally, I'll leave you with a pic of when my plant flowered many moons ago, (it's still clinging on).

Much more shrivelled now.

Weed Anniversary.

To celebrate the fact that this is the 420th post and that this post is going to be about drugs and shit.  420 or 4/20 comes from the horrible yank dating of April 20th Hitlers birthday a supposed legalisation of cannabis and all related products, though looking on line it seems it could be due to time.  If we were going to do it here it would be blaze it 204 as we are date, month year instead of the retarded month day year in the states.

To be honest like most things, I don't give a fuck about drugs, getting drunk or gambling as such, and most of the people I've seen who actually toke a lot were cunts to me.  I'm not going to moan on about legalizing that shit or medical Marijuana use (unless you have peer reviewed articles on what it supposedly treats apart from Glaucoma that they always bring up, that would be an interesting read). 
I'm not going to moan about gateway drugs and that whole nice guy smoked one spliff now a grade A cunt on Heroin, type yellow press that they push in the Mail, cos most people I knew aren't like that.

In fact the best advert for not doing drugs is this, do drugs and you'll end up with the memory of a gnat.  There are a few people I know who's short term memory is all over the place due to drugs and that.  Also if you do drugs you'll end up a cunt but we all know that already.