The Great Sacred Entheogens Raid

On Feb 4, 2010 the FDA, Kansas Bureau of Investigation, and local law enforcement raided a “lawfully” run botanical shop and warehouse known as Sacred Journey in Lawrence, Kansas. Jonathan Sloan, owner of Sacred Journey as well as Bouncing Bear Botanicals—one of the largest online distributors of entheogens in the U.S.—was charged in Jefferson County District Court with eight felony drug offenses, including the unlawful manufacturing and distribution of controlled substances—ranging from DMT to Mescaline and Lysergic Acid Amide. “Every single one of the charges is bogus,” claims the website savejon.org. “There was no manufacturing or extracting of DMT at any point at the warehouse, including the day of the raid.” Removed from the warehouse were 20 Colorado River Toads, an amphibian capable of eating rats and growing up to 4-7 inches long … and producing 5-MeO=DMT in its parotoid glands. The website goes on to claim, “There was no mescaline there. There was only San Pedro cactus. San Pedro cactus can be bought at Wal-Mart.”

The FDA has yet to release further details about the investigation, a spokesman said the agency does not publicly comment on active investigations. Also seized during the raid was the shops entire supply of K2, a currently legal herbal blend that works like a cannabinoid to receptors in the brain. K2 has gained popularity over the past year in both Kansas and Missouri, as an alternative to marijuana. It seems highly—no pun intended—likely that K2 is at fault for the raid. Kansas House legislators have passed a bill that would make illegal the sale or possession of K2; but with these recent events and Gov. Mark Parkinson being in favor of the bill, Kansans know it’s just a matter of days now.

Looks like Kansans will have to find something else to get high off of for now.

Check out Bouncing Bears Botanical’s website savejon.org to get the full side of their story.

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High, higher, hi!

Submitted by Thom Kennet on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 19:42.

"Looks like Kansans will have to find something else to get high off of for now." A very good thread exploring the issues and implications of this arrest can be found here: http://forums.ayahuasca.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=21774&postdays=0&posto... Read it if you've ever met a plant spirit. Read it if you've never met a plant spirit. In wildness is the preservation of the world - Thoreau

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The FDA doesn't seem to

Submitted by Benno on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 20:49.

The FDA doesn't seem to respect the laws of the USA. PROHIBITION is a very serious crime against Human Rights.

War on Drugs = A Police State of Consciousness

Submitted by Thom Foolery on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 14:19.

One more example of how the War on Drugs is establishing a police state of consciousness. All bets are now off, people (not coincidentally just in time for the full meltdown of the US economy and society).

Irony

Submitted by Philip Heying on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 15:25.

I find it more than a little ironic that last year alone three KU students died of alcohol poisoning or severe alcohol-consumption related incidents (I covered two of them for LJW newspaper), alcohol toxicity is one of the highest causes of hospital emergency visits, and of course not a single person is calling for the closure of any liquor stores.

They have wrought havoc on Jon Sloan's life for selling plants and an odd species of toad, yet when people are murdered by gunshot around here, as happens with increasing, troubling regularity, no gun stores -not even the ones that sell assault rifles and ammunition specifically designed for killing people- are ever held the least bit accountable.

Uh-oh

Submitted by Lightning Hawk on Sat, 02/20/2010 - 01:58.

Terrence McKenna once said that as long as a social movement is less than 5% of the population, no money is budgeted to destroy it. We may have crossed a tipping point. The support for legalizing marijuana has never been higher. (Pardon the pun.) A whole generation has been exposed to the truth about the War on Drugs via the Internet, and the powers that be are starting to take notice.

PS- The irony of CAPTCHA never fails. My words today are "officer tentacle."

I am trying to imagine what

Submitted by little lightening bolt on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 13:19.

I am trying to imagine what would happen if the ethnobotanical trade online got cut out of business. The ready availability of plants and the excellent innovations of extraction methods has created a new renaissance in entheogenic exploration. It has made it much easier for people to safely work with entheogens with out needing to rely on designer RCs or illegal lab chems. It has also gotten more people interested in shamanry, because these plants have cultural relationships with that mostly. SO it has been a curious concern to me for a long time… what will happen when or if these plants are no longer being legally traded online? How will people innovatively respond to the need for these medicines? Will they focus more on growing them and working with local alternatives? Will the market open wider for designer chems again? I wonder…

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Bouncing Bear Botanicals

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All I want to say is that in

Submitted by PurpleHope on Sun, 10/10/2010 - 14:23.

All I want to say is that in my country this kind of shops have opened a few months ago. Then a law passed to forbid them, but the people have figured out a way to make it 'legal' and now, there have been installed at least one residential drug rehab in every city because many many students have been transported to the hospital in a very bad situation.

pot and drug rehabs

Submitted by scott88 on Sat, 01/22/2011 - 13:39.

The more places pot becomes legal the more places will need drug rehabs.