This is a series of addt excerpts from sms updates that never got sent…..
Too all my fellow community members, friends, psychonauts and cohorts this is another update from Daniel.and I apologize…it’s a long one. If you just want the logistics skip to paragraph four.
When I got back in to this business around the Halloween before last, some of you out there will remember I was charging 115 a gram for my sole product offering and it was always on backorder as i was always having trouble scaling up as my client base grew. I pledged that I would try always to treat this like a co-op and take a more socialist approach by setting my prices using a cost plus basis not the "charge as much as people will pay method." I swore I would extend credit fairly at no interest and let people pay down as they comfortably could. Credit customers always recieve the same quality and qty as cash customers. I never turn away someone empty handed. In addition I frequently use our collective buying power to renegotiate the cost of materials and pass those savings on to you. All purchased goods that come out of the soil are harvested by adults making a fair wage….I check each one out. And I am proud to say I am now selling my product for close to half the price I was initially. I have been able to pay down my initial investment and put funds towards r&d on new products. ( and feed the toads) Lastly because of your business I am able to provide product, free or severly discounted, to members of a combat veterans support group for any front line soldier that had to discharge his weapon in anger. If they choose to try microdosing mushrooms or use dmt in place of the SSRIs and benzos they get from the VA we help them by educating them and helping them get a shroom tub going and offer DMT at whatever price they choose to pay. It amazes me how I have been so utterly low on funds recently do to circumstance, yet I have customers, friends I thought, that owe me hundreds of dollars and from them I get excuses if I am lucky but these disabled vets insist I take at least some funds from them everytime i make a drop off to the group. (you know who you are). I would gladly give away these molecules along with my time to everyone if I was Forest Gump. But I'm not and this dosen't just happen by magic.
Yet something beatiful has come from all this turmoil. The outpouring of kind words along with many of you offering donations of your time and/ or money really confirmed that my goal of building a community instead of just a business has come to fruition. Many offerings of donations were from people I have only met a few times and in more than one case, from folks I just recently started corresponding with who have yet to even try my products. I actually got a little choked up telling an old friend about y'all and the kindness I am recieving. I am managing to stay afloat with just the people who have an outstanding bill that are paying up what they can. I thank those of you who did so. I have put my rent off for 2 months now which shouuldnt be a problem I hope once Im back up and running. I have issues with excepting hand outs. Something from my childhood baggage no doubt. So even though you all have made such kind offers I should be okay.
I really think we need to harness this positive energy and effort into starting our own psychedlic based church here in the bay area. If you would like to attend an initial workshop to form a committee and get that ball rolling I think its time. I simply do not have the time or energy to spearhead this all by myself. In fact I would love it if someone else wants to take the lead role. Text me with your availability and I will try and coordinate a date and location central to those coming. One of our newest members has made an amazing kind offer to help tap into the huge but often hidden world of obtaining grants. And I just now find out he is not alone in this discipline. (woohoo Zak, get down with your bad self. I never even considered it but of course! Makes all kinds of sense. We will be needing people to serve as officers for a non-profit 5013c and who knows ..with a little luck and what I expect might be a period of rapid membership growth, this will lead in to salaried positions with prefernce going to those who helped launch it. It is time to redefine and challange what makes a community as well as how our public outreach services are distributed by moving away from secular faith based organizations. I hear a lot of talk about being "woke" but I am not seeing much in he way of action. There is a huge amount of Gov't money these churches are charged with distributing. Why should the Catholics be the ones deciding who receives what and all the guilt associated with it. ( if you happen to be Catholic I apologize but I stand by my conviction) Urgghh! Don't get me started, I won't stop! And on that final note I want to again thank you all for both proving karma to be true and that psychedelics really do bring out the best in people. OK then.Daniel out.
