Posting how to extract Mimosa is not going to attract authorities to Mimosa. People can extract Mimosa with just water and use it orally as is. We all know that. Anyone can do a cold water extraction of it and get effects. They don’t need a fancy extraction if they just want to get high from it. Merely extracting it doesn’t bring on the authorities. Showing images of people smoking white powder DMT in a crack pipe and acting bazaar will attract the authorities.
5-MeO-DMT is legal in many parts of the world and it can be bought on-line from several RC vendors. 5-HO-DMT is also legal in many countries, although not as many as 5-MeO-DMT. Both are never heard of in the media. DMT is slightly more common in the media, but even then, most people have no idea what it is.
Salvia was unfortunately taken advantage of by the marketplace by people who made highly concentrated extracts of it available OTC to anyone with the cash. It was being sold as a “psychedelic drug”, not a “research chemical”. That was not at all responsible, and it was a simple matter of time before it was banned. Had the marketplace acted responsibly and not sold concentrated extracts of it as a “psychedelic drug”, I’m sure it would still be legal everywhere. When the average person sees “research chemical” they think, “No way am I taking that! I’m not a guinea pig!” But when it’s labeled “psychedelic” then many drug seeking people who just want to get high are attracted to it.
Like salvia, 5-MeO-DMT was taken advantage of by similar dealers. It used to be that you could buy 5-MeO-DMT nearly everywhere advertised as a “psychedelic drug”. That’s no longer the case. Many of those places were shut down. Now none of the on-line dealers selling 5-MeO-DMT call it a “psychedelic”. They say nothing about its effects, and simply label it a “research chemical”. That keeps it from getting too popular and also allows them to sell it legally in some countries.
Fortunately no one is selling concentrated extracts of Mimosa, or pre-made ayahuasca brews on-line with the label “psychedelic”. If that ever starts, then it will start becoming illegal all over. All it takes is for a few major countries to start outlawing it, and the rest will soon follow. The word “psychedelic” has a very bad meaning to most governments and brings to their minds LSD and all the activism it caused. The last thing governments want is another LSD causing a bunch of activism. When you label DMT or ayahuasca a “psychedelic” you’re just asking for trouble. That’s exactly why salvia was banned in many places, it was being sold as a legal “psychedelic”.
There’s a girl on YouTube under the name “neurosoup” making videos that might cause a lot of trouble for everyone else. She’s got videos about DMT which group it together with the world’s worst nightmare: LSD. A soon as an association between DMT and LSD is brought to the consciousness of those in charge, Mimosa will start being looked at more seriously by the governments.
However even if Mimosa is banned world wide, DMT is present in hundreds of plants that grow wild, so it will always be available a few miles away from your house somewhere. Many police departments are actually growing DMT right in their lawns and don’t even know it.
I have not seen laws get tougher on DMT. In fact I’ve seen the opposite happen. Many places have made ayahuasca use legal for religious purposes even though DMT is illegal.
I see that the tide is turning in favor of ayahuasca. Ayahuasca gets a lot of positive media coverage. DMT never will be seen in the same light as ayahuasca. Ayahuasca is a simple tea. People don’t see tea as a “drug”, but people do see a white powder that you smoke in a crack pipe as being a “hardcore drug”. No matter how benign DMT might be, as soon as someone sees you smoking it in a crack pip, that’s it. They see you as a drug user. But when people see priests making tea and passing tea around, the mental image is very different. People don’t associate tea drinking with drug use, and so they think of it as an herbal concoction.
Imagine, you’re a old lady and you’ve seen people smoking crack and all on the news, and you see someone smoking DMT. From the old lady’s point of view DMT looks worse than crack. They are both white. They are both smoked in the same way. However DMT will make people incoherent and sometimes even fall to the ground. That looks far worse to the old lady’s than crack does. You might argue that it’s not addictive, but people will still see it as some sort of white powder you smoke like crack. It looks like a hardcore drug.
When people take ayahuasca, it’s normally in a large group setting with a priest or ayahuasquero. It looks like a social gathering. People are passing around tea, and talking about their visions. It doesn’t look like a drug scene. There’s no one smoking white crystals from a pipe. No one is drinking alcohol either. It looks like a positive religious social event.
If we want to keep Mimosa legal in most parts of the world we need to do the following:
* Don’t show people smoking Mimosa extracted DMT as a white powder in a pipe like it is crack!
* Don’t call it a psychedelic when talking about it in the media.
* Don’t associate it with LSD in the media.
* Don’t call it a drug.
* Do talk about it’s history and how many hundreds of years it’s been used as a tea in a religious setting. This gives people a sense of antiquity and history that surrounds the plant. People are far less to fear something their ancestors have been using for hundreds of years.
* Do talk about its healing qualities and use in ayahuasca and how beneficial ayahuasca is.
* Do call it an entheogen.
I believe that as long as people are made aware that Mimosa has been used by the ancients for hundreds of years in a religious context and is still used that way even today, Mimosa will remain legal. But if people are shown images of others smoking white DMT crystals as a drug in a crack pipe, and this image becomes associated with Mimosa, then Mimosa is in trouble.
