Likewise. My old man just made the delivery
I didn't specify what sort of beer I wanted, just told him to get me 4 random big bottles of beer. Came back with one bottle of 'badger tangle foot', and one each of 'bishop's finger' 'Directors' and 'old speckled hen'
Only tried the old speckled hen before, saving that 'till last, this badger's tangle foot is quite tasty. Needed that, I was bloody roasting, and thirsty as Tantalus.
Right now...I am thinking 'hmm..I am torn between going to go lie down on my bed or staying up for a while to read the big stack of research journal articles on kappa-receptor pharmacology and herkinorin, a derivative of salvinorin-A, the neoclerodane diterpene found in Salvia divinorum, the mexican 'diviner's sage', that has less potency as a kappa opioid receptor agonist (the receptor family responsible for producing the hallucinogenic effects, and pretty uniquely, doesn't recruit beta-arrestin2 to the mu-opioid receptor (target of morphine etc., and produces very, very little tolerance, thanks to not having the beta-arrestin2 present to effect uncoupling of the Mu-OR to its G-protein.
Haven't got to try it yet, although I'm pretty confidant that I could perform a semi-synthesis starting from salvinorin-A extracted from the plant itself. I do want to try it out though. Might be a good way to reduce my tolerance to oxy, switching to herkinorin for a while. At any rate it would bee an interesting project, and fun to do the lab work of course.
And I wouldn't mind a few Salvia divinorum plants to grow indoors:) I've tried Salvia a good few times, although never grown any. Tried chewing dried leaves as a quid, and smoking an extract; both of which were bloody well strange as Hades. Very, very intense when smoked, total loss of bodily awareness, although its very short lived. Chewed dried leaf is a much slower onset, far more gentle, less of the 'What the hell, I just got ripped out of my body, unzipped in several different dimensions and lived a thousand undetermined time periods as a vine growing up some tribal shaman's hut walls.
