This one is me, holding a young morning glory vine, of which I now have about 8, of the heavenly blue strain, noted for production of lysergic acid amides, and related ergine-type alkaloids within the seeds, the plants latex, however, produces a strongly and violently purgative effect if it were taken internally.

These buggers will have great looking dark violet-blue flowers once they flower (which is of course, the only reason I am growing these plants )

This one is a yopo tree, Anadenantharea Columbrina, it has mimisa-type photosensitive leaves, grows to a tree about 45 feet tall, the seeds are dried and ground as a snuff by some amazonian tribes, due to them containing high levels of bufotenine, 5-MeO-dimethyltryptamine and DMT itself.

It seems that all your plants have something in common... I just can't put my finger on it.

And it's terrible that you're going to kill your plants!  Plant killer!

It's such a far cry from my plants.  I have a norfolk pine that is now about 2' tall, and a giant sequoia that's been growing from a seed.  (Tiny, though).  I doubt these have any hallucinogenic properties, other than to wonder if you're hallucinating when you see a 'giant sequoia' that's about 1" tall.

HMX, I don't intend on killing my plants at all, on the contrary, I wouldn't do anything of the sort, for the most part, any alkaloids are in the seeds of the plants, and in the case of poppies, in the sap which exudes from the cut capsules, harvesting the plants, if it were to be done, would be no different from eating a banana

Actually, have you heard of the screw pine? Pandanus species, apparently , the seeds of certain of that genus contain DMT in appreciable levels (not a true pine I know)

Jdurg, surely the US govt. doesn't want to actually make the species extinct? I find it really hard to believe even Bush is THAT moronic, then again, as I think again, no I don't! if he were to suceed in eradicating the poppy, I would LOVE to be there on the day he has some sort of horiffically painful accident, and is scraped up off the road after being hit by a car, and wheeled into the hospital in agony, only to be told there is no painkillers in the hospital due to the "law" he made (as I stand there with some nice homegrown black tar and laugh)

Not something I would wish on the general populace though, it is shocking how one man's stupidity can do so much harm to so many people.

I would imagine, that if the opium-alkaloids were successfully eradicated, which I cannot see happening, that epibatidine, from the jungle frog which produces it would have to be brought into use.

It has more or less become impossible to treat pain in the home here, although OTC dihydrocodeine products can be seperated from APAP easily to provide an effective dose, I suffer from a knee condition, brought about by a shard of glass through the shinbone, called Osgood Schlatter's disease, and NSAIDs have absolutely NO effect on the pain caused, I found though, that a plant called Kratom, a MU-opiate agonist, helps considerably, along with tetrahydropalmitine, an isoquinoline alkaloid from the plant Corydalis Yanhuoso, which has 40% of the painkilling efficiency of morphine.

Interestingly enough, somthing I think needs further research, is the frog Phyllomedusa Bicolor, or the dow kietl, it produces an interesting mixture of peptides in its skin secretions, used by the native Matses indian people, as a hallucinogenic, but the skin secretions, also contain some incredibly efficient peptides with opioid effects called dermorphins, which I think would make excellent tools for pain management in hospitals.

Actually, the U.S. governments urge to make the poppy plant extinct has been around for quite a long while now.  I think it was back in the 1970's when the US started to heavily persuade foregin countries into destroying all of their poppy plants.  So this isn't really a Bush developed stupidity.

You know, in a reasonable, sane world, governments would give people like you a nice place to work and a license to do what you wanted to, knowing that your passion and love for working with these materials would ultimately benefit your country and probably the world.  I'm not advocating communism, where your job is handed to you, but at least grant you a license to do as you please, considering you're not growing thousands of acres of some plant just to harvest it and sell it to 10 year olds on the street for money.  Of course, the world isn't sane or reasonable.  Our governments tend to restrict anything they don't really understand.  It's kind of sad to see chemistry derailed by government idiocy.

I dont have any pictures, but I cultivate carnivorius plants. Have the following:

Drosera Capensis X3
Sarracenia Minor X2
Sarracenia Purpurea Ssp. Purpurea X1
Dionea Muscipula X3
Nephentes Sanguinea X1
Utricularia Capensis X1