Several thoughts.

First is that the apprenticeship program has always been in action.  I have overseen this many many times.  At a certain point in your own evolution you meet someone and feel the need to mentor them based on their own interest.

Second, I have seen this whole thing go full circle like ten times.  Plant X is unheard of, people find it, mass produce it, stupid kid gets caught doing something stupid, plant gets watched, plant gets outlawed, etc.

Sadly, I fear I helped with Salvia divinorum.  The plant was unheard of other than the Hoffman/Wasson report, we got a few clones back when your couldn't even find a place to buy leaf.  I mass produced the plant, even selling thousands of cuttings to a plantation that I knew was going into business to make extracts.  My bad.  End result is apparent today.  I learned my lesson, profiting on such things to pay for the light bill isn't worth the negative energy... I moved on.

Dmt is different tho.  Making Mimosa illegal may very well be the best thing in the movement.  Not saying I ever wish to see a plant being made illegal, but it would certainly require more dedication to produce the chemical.  Please don't misquote me or misunderstand me on that.

At the moment Mimosa makes it too fast, too easy.

Listen, in 97 when I first tried D in smoked form there was no such thing as Mimosa hostilis rootbark, it was mearly a footnote in Johnathon Ott's book.  I probably used D or Pharma 40-50 times before I ever found a place to buy mimosa rootbark from.  To be honest, I labored through that pound of bark, eating it 15grams at a time.  I disliked it on account of the taste (I was very ignorant to extractions, tannins etc).

When I started my farm, it was partially because I needed a greenhouse in order to produce plant material I needed.  I was sickened by the budding "ayahuasca trade" that was pulling plant material from the forest as opposed to a farm.  I began mass producing these plants, I sold about 60 different D containing plants, and many that were suspected to contain it (even rarities that were stupid simple to grow like Alternanthera lehmanii and Justica pectoralis).  The research going into them was awesome!  People were reporting their findings to the Entheogen Review and progress was being made on many many plant species.

Just as I was leaving the scene for a bit cheap Mimosa rootbark became available and people came up with many simple, foolproof teks for producing the desired result.  When I came back I was simply blown away with how many advances have been made.

Looking back tho, it is a true travesty in a way... it became simple and reliable to extract, but the scope was limited to either imported jungle plants or Mhrb.  All research into other plants died, especially the plants that survived well in more northerly climates.

I've heard this "ohh no, Mhrb is gonna die, we are all gonna be D-free for ever."  Seriously?  that is the extent of your devotion?  If so, then yes... you will be d-free. 

"in The Age Of The Exit,

are The Moving Cartoons

bringing You Right Along

helping You... Living On

my Special...And Took Me Out Alone

he Showed Me A Level,

i'm Talking On My Own

so Don't Be Taken By What I Say,

if Its Too Rigid Just Go Away,

you're Never Really Gone,

only Livin On...

if You Miss My Watching,

sometimes I'm Catching All I Can,

in The Steady Watching,

of The Prophet's Plan.

but me, I'm livin on"  -tommy hall