[Tom]

Originally Posted by Judas Iscariot

Plant feeder in name only. It's got nothing to do with plant feeder though. It's like saying booze must be a floor cleaner because it's sold as such in a reverse situation.

But you can use it to feed plants. Hence they get away with selling it as plant feeder. Booze doesn't clean your floor, so they don't sell it as that. If they did they could be prosecuted.

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Tom

But you can use it to feed plants. Hence they get away with selling it as plant feeder. Booze doesn't clean your floor, so they don't sell it as that. If they did they could be prosecuted.

No, you can't use it to feed plants. You try giving Mephedrone to plants. I have been around this stuff for about two years. I know some of the people behind Cork's head shops.

None of this stuff has any application whatsoever as anything but drugs.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Judas Iscariot

No, you can't use it to feed plants. You try giving Mephedrone to plants. I have been around this stuff for about two years. I know some of the people behind Cork's head shops.

None of this stuff has any application whatsoever as anything but drugs.

You can feed it to plants and it is included in some fertilisers.

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Tom

You can feed it to plants and it is included in some fertilisers.

Source?

You cannot feed it to plants. You can, but it wont do anything. It has never been used in fertelizers for sale in legit gardening stores. It's like telling me you can use caffeine to remove stains.

Mephedrone is a stimulant and entactogen drug of the phenethylamine, amphetamine, and cathinone chemical family. It has no use whatsoever as anything but a drug.

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by Tom

But you can use it to feed plants. Hence they get away with selling it as plant feeder. Booze doesn't clean your floor, so they don't sell it as that. If they did they could be prosecuted.

I suppose if you used miniscule amounts of it, to a lot of water you could, but the same could be said for any chemical product.

It is sold as a plant food to get round legislation in the UK, its also sold as an experimental research chemical. It gets round both food and drug laws by being hailed as a plant food, and not for human consumption.

Obviously the people who sell it will use the plant food claim to use the loopholes in the existing laws, do you honestly believe it is a plant food, if you do have a look on the net for any reputable gardening sites that advocate its use. Also next time you are in homebase have a look and see if its on the shelves there.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Judas Iscariot

Source?

You cannot feed it to plants. You can, but it wont do anything. It has never been used in fertelizers for sale in legit gardening stores. It's like telling me you can use caffeine to remove stains.

Mephedrone is a stimulant and entactogen drug of the phenethylamine, amphetamine, and cathinone chemical family. It has no use whatsoever as anything but a drug.

Crossed wires, I'm ****e at wording, but you're completely missing the point. I know its used as a drug but the reason they sell it as plant food is because it can work as a plant food, otherwise selling it as plant food is pointless. Thats the way they're getting round the legislation for it, and it would be sold as something else e.g. poppers is sold as room odouriser because theres nothing else they can sell it as.

Originally Posted by Shasown

I suppose if you used miniscule amounts of it, to a lot of water you could, but the same could be said for any chemical product.

It is sold as a plant food to get round legislation in the UK, its also sold as an experimental research chemical. It gets round both food and drug laws by being hailed as a plant food, and not for human consumption.

Obviously the people who sell it will use the plant food claim to use the loopholes in the existing laws, do you honestly believe it is a plant food, if you do have a look on the net for any reputable gardening sites that advocate its use. Also next time you are in homebase have a look and see if its on the shelves there.

Thats exactly what I'm trying to say- but if it couldn't work on plants then it is illegal to sell it as plant food, making the whole exercise pointless.

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by Tom

Thats exactly what I'm trying to say- but if it couldn't work on plants then it is illegal to sell it as plant food, making the whole exercise pointless.

Whilst it might be illegal under the trade descriptions act, who is going to complain, real gardening shops dont stock it, they dont sell it so no real gardener gets it. So there are no complaints about it. Besides by the time the Trading Standards people get their finger out and attempt to bring a prosecution it will have been banned under the Misuse of Drugs Act. There is no regulatory body as such for plant foods. Some substances have been banned under Health and Safety rules, like COSHH.

It could eventually be banned under COSHH regulations but again that would take a few years, more than enough time for the Labs that make the stuff to modify it and produce a new similar legal high.

Imagine if some teen got caught with it by his dad who is a gardener, he says "its plant food dad", His dad probably wont test it, just chuck it, even if he does try it and it has no effect on the plants, whats he going to do?

There are lots of different food stuffs and plant food available for gardeners, some work most of the time some only work in certain areas, some like home made recipes for leeks will only work in certain soils etc. however thats not to say they cant be claimed to be the best plant food ever.