twinkie said:

Pretttyyyy sure the Indian strains aren't even active..or have a ridiculously low alkaloid content.
They're Hawaiian Baby Woodrose Seeds for a reason, ya know..

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twinkie said:

They're Hawaiian Baby Woodrose Seeds for a reason, ya know..

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240779 said:

twinkie said:

They're Hawaiian Baby Woodrose Seeds for a reason, ya know..

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Hawaiin baby woodrose is the species, Argyreia nervosa. My reading suggests all geographical A. nervosa contains lysergic acid amides. In fact, there are other Argyreia species that contain lysergic acid amides as well.* However, anecdotal reports indicate that the Hawaiin ones have an especially high concentration of lysergic acid amides. A certain online store purports this fact on their website as well. This is most likely the reason for the prevalence of the Hawaiin ones in the drug community.

*Further reading: http://www.shroomery.org/forums/download.php?Number=17534787


Supposedly, A. nervosa was the sacred Soma of India:

A tantalizing hint left by a deceased master of meditation suggests that the Hawaiin Woodrose may have an ancient spiritual connection. The Vedas, Hindu religious texts more than a thousand years old, make awed references to an intoxicating plant concoction called Soma. The yogis and sages of old used this divine elixir to enhance their connection with God and assist them in their spiritual development. The use of Soma supposedly disappeared with the passage of the centuries, and the identity of the plant from which it came is therefore a mystery. Several scholarly theses and debates have been devoted to identifying the Soma plant, but no definitive conclusions have ever been reached.

In the early 1980s, a famous LSD researcher went to India and asked an elderly world-renowned guru of Yoga if he knew anything about the mysterious Soma. The spiritual teacher replied that he had been in contact with an obscure, remote sect of yogis who still practiced the entheogenic use of soma, having secretly preserved the tradition for centuries. The swami said that the plant was a "creeper"—or vine—and promised that he would take the LSD researcher on a trek to see the plant for himself and meet the yogis who used it.

The Little Book of Acid, Cam Cloud, p. 50

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