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- From: cavasin@muse.convex.com (Vince Cavasin)
- Message-ID: <9408150700.AA04211@muse.convex.com>
- Subject: [l/m 06/16/94] ADDRESSES FAQ (biweekly post)
- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 94 02:00:05 -0500
-
- PLEASE NOTE THAT I DO *NOT* MAINTAIN *ANY* MAILING LISTS. PLEASE DO *NOT*
- SEND ME MAIL ASKING TO BE ADDED TO MY "LIST". THERE IS NO LIST.
-
- This is an automatically generated bi-weekly posting of my addresses list. If
- you have anything to add to this list (comments, missing places), please post
- AND mail me. PLEASE CHECK THE FUCKING LIST TO SEE IF WHAT YOU WANT TO ADD TO
- IT IS ALREADY ON IT FIRST!!
-
- ============================================================================
-
- A few things:
-
- 1. the places listed below are legitamate businesses. Their primary purpose
- for being (well their stated purpose anyway) is NOT to supply heads with stuff
- that will get them high. Do NOT call or write these places acting like you
- plan on using anything they carry for illicit purposes.
-
- 2. I have provided comments on the places that I have personal experience
- with. If you have experience with any of these places, please post or email
- me with your impression of their service, product, etc. If you know of any
- mail order places that carry neat stuff and aren't listed here, PLEASE let me
- know about them somehow. And if you find that I've made a mistake in any of
- the addresses/phone numbers/information presented below, please let me know.
-
- 3. If you have questions about any of the substances or companies mentioned
- here, please POST them if at all possible. If you can't post, email me and
- I'll either try to answer or post it anonymously for you.
-
- 4. You can get catalogs from most of these places by calling or writing. If
- no price is listed for a catalog, it means I'm not sure if the place charges
- for one or not. I usually send a buck when I write for a catalog just to
- avoid the hassle of having them write me back saying "we're sorry, but you
- must include 50 cents when requesting a catalog...." Catalogs from these
- places can range from really informative, well-done booklets to 1 sheet order
- forms.
-
- 5. abbreviations:
-
- HBWR: Hawaiian Baby Woodrose seeds; one ounce of HBWR contains about 100
- seeds.
- HLWR: Hawaiian Large Woodrose seeds.
- MG: Morning Glory seeds.
-
- cheers,
- vince
-
- ============================================================================
-
- ... of the jungle
- P.O. Box 1801
- Sebastopol, CA 95473
- (707) ???-????
-
- Carries:
-
- seeds, plants, and prepared herbs too numerous to mention.
-
- Comments:
-
- Very well done catalog; extremely informative. ...of the jungle probably
- carries a wider variety of nifty botanicals than any other mail order place.
- Prices are pretty good; service pretty good.
-
- MG: 25 seeds/$1.50; HBWR: 11/$2.50; 100/$10
-
- --------------------------------
- Island Spore Co.
- P.O. box 8055
- Honolulu, Hawaii 96830
-
- Carries:
-
- HBWR, HLWR, Betel Nuts, Kava Kava, Imported Poppy Seeds (species not
- specified), Sensitive plant seeds.
-
- Comments:
-
- Took about a month to get their ONE PAGE order sheet in the mail. Extremely
- pricey compared to other vendors. If anyone has any experience with this
- place, please post or email cavasin@convex.com.
-
- HBWR: 21/$20; 1 oz./$75; 1 lb./$1000 (yeah, right);
- HLWR: 15/$20; 1 oz/$75; 1 lb/$850 (oh, they're givin' them away!!);
-
- --------------------------------
- T.A.E.
- 1935 S. Plum Grove Rd.
- Suite #348
- Palatine, IL 60067
- (708) 255-4982
-
- Carries:
-
- HBWR, HLWR, Kava Kava, Broom, Black Morrocan (lettuce opium "incense"), some
- other stuff.
-
- Comments:
-
- Highly recommended. Incredibly fast service (orders filled same day they are
- received; 1 week TOTAL turnaround time for an order placed from TX). Very
- helpful over the phone. Decent prices. Write or call for Free order
- sheet/brochure. A tip: don't mess with the "Black Morrocan", it's useless.
-
- HBWR: .5 oz/$25; 1 oz/$40; 4 oz/$110; 1 lb/$325;
- HLWR: 2 oz/$30; 8 oz/$90; 1 lb/$150.
-
- --------------------------------
- Horus Botanicals
- HCR 82 Box 29
- Salem ARK.
- 72576
-
- Carries:
-
- Tons of nifty shit. Prices/selection are comparable to ...of the jungle.
- Catalog is big and informative, but not very well put together. Horus carries
- wormwood, opium poppy seeds, yohimbe and Acorus calamus, all of which are
- fairly difficult to find.
-
- Comments:
-
- Service leaves something to be desired (long, long
- turnaround time). If ...of the jungle don't have it, Horus probably does;
- you'll just have to wait a little longer to get it.
-
- MG: "seed packet"/$2.00 (various species available; see catalog for
- details.)
-
- --------------------------------
- Magic Garden Herb Co.
- P.O. Box 332
- Fairfax, CA 94930
- (415) 488-4331
-
- Carries:
-
- HBWR, HLWR, MG, tons of other herbs, most of which are of little or no
- psychoactive value. Much like a big mail order herb store.
-
- Comments:
-
- Longest turnaround of any supplier listed here, with the possible exception of
- Island Spore. Nice selection, good prices. If anyone has any experience with
- Magic Garden, please post or email cavasin@convex.com. I am told their MG
- seeds are NOT treated.
-
- MG: 7 grams/$1.50; 1 oz./$4.50.
-
- --------------------------------
- New Mexico Cactus Research
- P.O. Box 787
- Belen, N.M. 87002
- (505) 864-4027
-
- Carries:
-
- Trichocereus Pachanoi cuttings (seasonally); Coryphantha Macromeris cuttings
- (seasonally); the seeds of many trichocereus species (inculding peruvianus);
- several species of Lophophora (no guarantee of getting williamsii); datura
- seeds. Also carries about every variety of cactus extant.
-
- Comments:
-
- Really great service. Very helpful over the phone. However, PLEASE remember,
- this place is a LEGITAMATE cactus farm. They are NOT in business for the
- purpose of supplying heads with mescaline-bearing cacti. If you call or
- write, make like a cactologist.
-
- NMCR's catalog is really a trip. Basically a bunch of poor-quality,
- varying-size photocopies of hand-typed pages listing species, descriptions and
- prices, with some pictures taped on here and there. Kind of challenging to
- find what you're looking for.
-
- --------------------------------
- Books by Phone
- Box 522
- Berkeley, CA 94701
- (800) 858-2665
-
- Carries:
-
- Books you can't find anywhere else.
-
- Comments:
-
- If you can find it someplace else, buy it there. This place is a FUCKING RIP
- OFF. the copy of Adam Gottlieb's _Legal Highs_ I bought from them (a 70 page
- paperback) had a sticker that said $7.95 (which is what I paid) covering up
- the original price of $3.95. Plus they charge extra for personal checks,
- credit cards, and postage. However, they DO carry some really hard to find
- titles, and the service is pretty good; about 2 week turnaround time on a
- phoned-in credit card order. Catalog is pretty good too. If you can't find
- it in their catalog, call and ask and they might be able to get it for you
- (you may have to take out a second mortgage to be able to afford it, but...).
-
- --------------------------------
- Loompanics
- P.O. Box 1197
- Port Townsend, WA 98368
- $5.00 catalog
-
- Carries:
-
- Interesting books.
-
- Comments:
-
- I am told they
- have fast turnaround and good prices.
-
- Email comments:
-
- i've ordered from them twice, pretty good service both times (2.5 & 3
- weeks i think) prices are about the same as my local bookstore charges,
- for the few things i've been able to compare. some seem overly expensive,
- but from the descriptions in the catalog, i'd guess that most are pretty
- reasonable. i don't expect books to be cheap, but $8.95 for something
- like Psychedelic Chemistry is definitely worth it. (~200 pages, well
- bound, trade paperback, glossy cover), some of the other things i've
- gotten from them were not as good in terms of physical quality, but
- they cost less too.
-
- ---------------------------------
-
- Laissez-Faire Books
- 942 Howard street
- San Francisco, CA 94103
- (800) 326-0996
-
- Got their catalog for free a couple weeks ago. Killer selection; mostly
- hard-to-find alternative political and economics books. No mushroom growers
- guides and stuff like that. Pricey compared to local bookstores, but some of
- the titles they carry can't be found in local bookstores, so not a bad deal
- for hard to find stuff. Shop around first.
-
- ---------------------------------
-
- Gardens of the Blue Ridge
- P.O. Box 10
- Pineola, NC 28662
- (704) 733-2417
-
- Carries:
-
- Acorus calamus is the only psychoactive plant GBR carries that I know of.
-
- Comments:
-
- GBR is an ultra-legitamate greenhouse specializing in hardy native plants.
- They sell mostly seeds, seedlings and plants. Since they don't sell dried
- herbs, leaves, bark, root, or cuttings (like most of the places listed here),
- they probably are of little interest to those of us that don't want to bother
- with gardening. Prepared Calamus root can be obtained from both ...of the
- jungle and Horus.
-
- Extremely well done catalog is $2.00. However, don't expect to find any
- information on alternative uses of the plants they sell in it.
-
- ----------------------------------
- AMOK
- P.O. Box 861867 Terminal Annex
- Los Angeles, CA 90086-1867
-
- Email comments:
-
- similar to loompanics, but many many more titles. the catalog itself is 8.95,
- but its a big 8x12 400 page book. if its not in loompanics or AMOK, i
- doubt its available.
- --
-
- AMOK's catalog is well worth ordering as a sourcebook and bibliography
- of the bizarre, but I know of at least one person who's had trouble
- ordering stuff from them, and they've been listed in Factsheet Five
- in a "black" list of unreliable vendors. If you can't find it anywhere
- else and are prepared to wait months, go ahead and order, but you've
- been warned... If you live in the Los Angeles area, their bookstore
- is worth visiting.
- --
-
- Wonderful catalog, but very unreliable. I ordered from them about
- August of last year. One item out of 4 arrived quickly with the rest
- backordered. I was charged on my credit card for that item plus
- shipping and handling. A couple of months later, I was billed for the
- remaining items, though I hadn't received them. I called them during
- their listed hours, received an answering machine and left a message.
- No response. After a couple of tries at this, I wrote my credit card
- company and had them reverse the charge. A few months after this,
- perhaps 8 months after my original order, I received 2 out of the
- remaining three items, the third item was cancelled and the charge
- reversed on my credit card, even though the charge for the entire
- order had been reversed already. I was never billed again for these
- items, but felt little guilt because of the exceptionally poor
- service. I also knew that it would be impossible to get in touch with
- them. Definitely don't send checks. I'm sure that it would be very
- difficult to receive an order once they have the money. If I'm really
- desperate, I might order from them again, but it would be safer to get
- the book name and order from a reliable local book store.
-
- ----------------------------------
- Worldwide Curio House
- p.o. box 17095
- minneapolis minn, 55417
-
- mainly a voodoo supply house, but has a large section of "herbs roots barks
- berries" much more extensive than MGH, and similar in price. they do not carry
- MG or HBWS, however. i think four or five dollars for three catalogues, which
- even if you dont want anything but the herbs, are hilarious(one page has fruit
- shaped refrigerator magnets, the next advertises "genuine human skull. number
- of teeth may vary. $195.00"
-
- ----------------------------------
- J.L.F.
- p.o. box 184-sc
- elizabethtown, IN 47232
- (812)379-2508
-
- haven't dealt with these fellows, but they carry some very odd things..
- "30 dried grams red variety amanita muscaria: $60.00"
- they also sell bufotonin toad skins from road kills and various other
- thangs, but the fly agaric(amanita muscaria) is their main product..
-
- I must add that this place has the most hysterical disclaimer I've ever read
- in my life. An excerpt (typo's of indeterminate origin):
-
- "The longest disclaimer you've ever seen."
- All merchandise sold in this brochure is poisonous and not intended for
- internal consumption. All items are classified as "NON-FOOD". They are not
- to be eaten or drank. Do not use in any manner unspecified or unauthorized by
- JLF. JLF assumes no liability for unauthorized uses of its products. For
- example (for those who exist soley to keep the human aspect of Murphy's Law
- alive): Do not eat as a food or herbal dietary supplement. Do not drink as a
- beverage or make tea out of. Do not inject in any form. Do not stick, put,
- insert or throw in your or another person's mouth, nose, ear, eye, anus or any
- other orafice that may exist on your or another person's body. Do not wet any
- dried organic with water and let sit and rot, then smear the black
- maggot-infested stinky slop on your or another person's body or insert it
- in any of the orafices previously mentioned. Do not light with fire and use
- that fire to injure yourself or another or any personal or public property.
- Do not leave in the middle of the floor and trip or slip on to injure yourself
- or another. There is not enough room here to list all the possible "do nots".
- If you still can not keep from harming yourself or others or property with JLF
- products then you should probably go to bed and stay there for the rest of
- your life. No, then you would get bed sores and bring suit against the bed or
- sheet manuacturer, or JLF for telling you to do it....
-
- Call for their brochure; it's free and well worth the laughs.
-
- ============================================
-
- Message-Id: <9512111741.AA11317@anon.penet.fi>
- From: an463810@anon.penet.fi
- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 17:41:54 UTC
- Subject: Information about JLF
-
- I would like to provide additional information about JLF to include in
- the file http://hyperreal.com/drugs/commercial/FAQ-Addresses.
-
- After successfully ordering a $2 JLF catalog, I made a costly purchase
- of some Amanita Muscaria mushrooms using a money order and an assumed
- name. This procedure has worked smoothly with OTJ and Chameleon
- Ethnobotanicals. Unfortunately, after six months, I had heard nothing.
- Unable to get through on the phone, I sent a letter asking what happened
- to my order, with a stamped, self-addressed envelope. A month has passed
- and there has been no reply. I caution anyone intending to do business
- with JLF not to risk a substantial amount of money and not to reveal your
- identity.
-
- --****ATTENTION****--****ATTENTION****--****ATTENTION****--***ATTENTION***
- Your e-mail reply to this message WILL be *automatically* ANONYMIZED.
- Please, report inappropriate use to abuse@anon.penet.fi
- For information (incl. non-anon reply) write to help@anon.penet.fi
- If you have any problems, address them to admin@anon.penet.fi
-
- ============================================
-
- ----------------------------------
- Inner Center
- P.O. Box 362
- Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
-
- clean MG seeds. Used to sell 5-MeO DMT, but I think they stopped that around
- 3/92. Probably carry some other nifty stuff but I've never seen their catalog.
-
- ----------------------------------
- The DoorWay
- P.O.Box 12553
- Ogden, Utah 84412-2553
- U.S.A.
- email MELBARBARI@cc.weber.edu
-
-
- Offers an excellent selection of books and what appears to be a pretty good
- shroom kit. Also gives free phone and net support. Send $1.00 for catalog.
-
- Send him email for details.
-
- ----------------------------------
-
- (from email:)
-
- also, if youre Really into the whole gettin-weird-stuff-through-the-mail thing,
- you might want to write off to the 3dipswhoaregoD..they have a Very funny
- short newletter that they will send you free(and you will then be forever
- on their mailing list for future issues as well). Back Issues are like
- fifty cents or a dollar, depending on how long the specific issue is..
- the current issue is vol. five. I thought vol. four was really their best
- effort to date.
- anyway, the address is:
-
- 3dips, c/o Catfish
- 915 W. Wisconsin Ave., #412
- Milwaukee, WI 53233-2373
-
- if you're familiar with the Discordians or the Church of the Subgenius, this
- is sort of similar, but theyre not quite so avaricious as the subgenius..
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- (from email:)
-
- From what I can recall, John Birrenbach has "acquired the rights" (oxymoron?)
- to grow Cannabis hemp on a test plot somewhere in Minnesota. I'm unsure as to
- the exact status/success of this situation, but Birrenbach and his
- organization have not been known to botch things. More info's probably
- available:
-
- The Institute for H.E.M.P. (Horticulture Education on the heMp Plant)
- P.O. Box 65130
- St. Paul, MN 55165
- --(612)22202628 --> {9-5 M-F, Central Time}
- FAX--(612)77704853 [This is John Birrenbach's Organization]
-
- On the West Coast, try contacting:
-
- H.E.M.P. (Help End Marijuana Prohibition)
- 5632 Van Nuys Blvd., #210
- Van Nuys, CA 91401
- --(213)39201806 [Jack Herer's Organization]
- OR
- B.A.C.H. (Business Alliance for Commerce in Hemp)
- P.O. Box 71093
- Los Angeles, CA 90071-0093
- --(213)28804152 [Lynn Osborn(??)'s Organization) ]
- [These folks bend over backwards for ya]
-
- -----------------------------------------------
-
- (from email re:ephedrine:)
-
- BDI Pharmaceuticals
- A Division of Body Dynamics, Inc.
- P.O. Box 11063
- Indianapolis, Indiana 46201
-
- Try snail-mailing them a request for information on how to order ephedrine for
- your "asthma condition".
-
- ---------------------------------------------------
-
- (from email:)
-
- In article <1992Feb27.011551.6391@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> drk20509@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (mighty odin) writes:
- > Is smoking the flakes going to be active? Does smoking somehow
- >get it to interact with MAO inhibitors?
-
- Smoking skin flakes should work without MAO inhibition, but you must be
- careful because one gram of skin gives enough 5-MeO-DMT for 10-30 trips.
- Bufo alvarius lives in the Sonoran desert (a leaflet about B. alvarius
- and using it might be available from
-
- Venom Press
- Box 2863
- Denton TX 76202
-
- if Venom Press still exists).
-
- ----------------------------------------
-
- (from email:)
-
- Are you familiar with an outfit called "Dream Gardens Ethnobotanicals?"
- I sent them a few bucks for a catalog early summer and never heard a word.
- I figured 'to hell with them' and left it. They've an ad in vol 5 of
- _Psychedelic Monographs and Essays_ which reads:
- "A unique resource for plants of world-wide shamanic and medicinal use.
- Our catalog lists over 350 varieties of live plants and over 100 dry herbs.
- Many of the plants we offer are extremely rare aand seldom seen outside
- their areas of ingigenous use." Then the address is
-
- PO Box 661552
- Mar Vista CA 90066.
-
- -------------------------------------
-
- Florida Mycology Research Center
- PO Box 8104
- Pensacola, Florida 32505
- phone 904/327 4378
-
- A good source for mushroom spores, live cultures, growing media,
- tools, info booklets and videos etc. Spores and cultures of over a hundred
- different species, including more Psilocybe species you knew existed and
- "Lepiota peele". Fun item is Composted cow manure, "100% natural
- composted cow pies... Compost is already taken by wild mushroom
- mycelium... NOT INTENDED TO PRODUCE EDIBLE MUSHROOMS.. Mushrooms in the
- Panaeolus and Psilocybe genus is likely.. 1 pound $25". Psilocybe
- cubensis spores $5, culture $50. To order the culture you
- need to use university or business letterhead or be a member of
- "FMRC's Independent Mushroom Growers Network".
-
- ----------------------------------
-
- you can order Jack Herer's _The Emperor Wears No Clothes_ from:
-
- HEMP Publishing
- 5632 Van Nuys Blvd.
- Van Nuys, CA 91401
-
- ----------------------------------
-
- A Distribution
- 339 Lafayette St., Room 202
- NYC, NY 10012
-
- Anarchist literature.
-
- -----------------------------------
-
- High Times
- c/o Trans-High Corp.
- 235 Park Ave. South
- New York, NY 10003
- phone 212-387-0500
- subscriptions: 800-827-0228 within the US
-
- _High Times_ is a monthly magazine produced in the US, devoted to psychadelic
- drugs and alternative culture issues.
-
- --------------------------------------
-
- B|cher & Pflanzen
- Bert M. Schuldes
- Hauptstrasse 70
- 99759 Rehungen
- Germany
-
- This guy sells german-language books on topics that may interest a.d readers.
- From his private mail to me:
-
- >I'm selling seeds of: henbane, different daturas, poppies, ipomeas, some
- >cactii including peyote and san pedro.
-
- >My catalog (in english) is US$3, due to the expensive int'l
- >air-mail fees here.
-
- >By the way, I'm the author of a little book here:
- >Psychoaktive Pflanzen, (Psychoactive Plants) which is a bit like
- >Legal Highs, only more reliable, I hope. It was published at
- >Werner Pieper who published, among others, also McKenna in german
- >translation here.
-
- Indoor gardners are well advised to contact him.
-
- I have no experience with his service. If you order something from him,
- please let me know through email how it is.
-
- --------------------
-
- L.E.R.
- Legendary Ethnobotanical Resources
- PO Box 1676
- Coconut Grove, FL. 33233
- 24 hour # (305) 649-9997
-
- This is a supplier of some of the rarest species -- including the
- Trichocereus Peruvianus (much more chemical content that the San
- Pedro of which is of the same family).
-
- A catalog is $3.00, very well done! Well worth the time and $'s!
-
-
- -----------------------
-
- SIGMA RESEARCH REAGENTS ARE FURNISHED FOR LABORATORY USE ONLY.
-
- Sigma Chemical Company
- P.O. Box 14508
- St. Louis, MO 63178-9916
-
- Order Line : 1-800-325-3010 (1-800-325-5052 FAX)
- Customer Service: 1-800-325-8070 (shipping problems)
- Technical Service: 1-800-325-5832
-
- ------------------------
-
- Partnership for a Drug-Free America
- 666 3rd Avenue
- New York, NY 10017
-
- (212) 922-1560
- 1-800-662-HELP (4357)
-
- you know what to do with this one!
-
- call the 800 number often. it costs them $.60-$.80 per call.
-
- ------------------------
-
- Drug Policy Foundation
- 4801 Massachusetts Ave NW
- Suite 400
- Washington, DC 20016
-
- 800-388-3784
- fax (202)537-3007
- 76546.215@compuserve.com
-
- Probably the most respected pro-legalization organization around. the
- information in their bi-monthly newsletter is worth the $20 membership alone.
- Join now and have all your friends join too
-
- --------------
-
- for all those interested in addresses for nootropics, here they are:
-
- InHome Health Services
- box 3112
- CH-2800 Delemont
- Switzerland
-
- INTERLAB
- PO Box 587
- Newprt Pagnell
- Bucks
- MK168AA England
-
- and.....
-
- WRN Research
- POB 839 Station A
- Montreal, Canada H3C 2V5
-
- This companies may supply one or more of the following:
-
- Piracetam
- pyrogluamate
- Vinpocetine
- Acetyl-L-carnitine
- Centrophenoxine (lucidril)
- Choline
- AL721 (egg lecithin)
- DHEA (alliance 7 San diego 619-291-5360, HAF San fran 415-626-2316 &
- PDA New York 212-532-0363 )
- Deaner (DMAE)
- GEROVITAL (GH-3)
- Hydergine
- Phenytoin (Dilantin)
- Propranolol Hydrochloride (Inderal)
- Vasopressin (Diapid) nasal spray only
- Vincamine
- Xanthinol Nicotinate
- L-tryptophan
- L-Phenylalanine
-
- And a host of Aminos, Vitamins and assorted goodies. GOOD LUCK!!
-
- -------------------
-
- Psychedelic Illuminations Magazine
- PO box 3186
- Fullerton, CA 92634
- 714-733-1252
-
- Subs $28 for 4 issues.
-
- Irregular publication, about once every 5 months. Regular contributors
- include Terence Mckeena, Jonathan Ott, Tim Leary, Jim Dekorne, and Many
- others. The source publication for Psychedelic Info.
-
-
-