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P O Box 3260, New Plymouth City, New Zealand

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OPENING HOURS

Monday

12:00 AM – 11:59 PM

Tuesday

12:00 AM – 11:59 PM

Wednesday

12:00 AM – 11:59 PM

Thursday

12:00 AM – 11:59 PM

Friday

12:00 AM – 11:59 PM

Saturday

12:00 AM – 11:59 PM

Sunday

12:00 AM – 11:59 PM

We are NZ, New Zealand’s leading online smartshop, headshop & vaporshop. Your #1 source for kava, kanna, hemp (cannabis sativa), ethnobotanicals, nootropics, party energizers, vapes & vaporizers. Helping you “explore your mind” since 2004.

Our roots stretch back to the heady daze of the early 90’s counter-culture, the era just before the internet was a reality for most young kiwi psychonauts seeking adventure. It was a time when anti-drug propaganda and word of mouth provided what little information there was on subjects such as cannabis and psychedelics, let alone exotic psychoactive plants from the jungles of far away lands.

It was at this moment in time that our founder Nic began experimenting with cannabis while studying horticulture and surfing the lower North Island of New Zealand. Nic found that consuming a small amount of cannabis before a surf not only boosted creativity during the surf session, but also benefited breathing, energy levels and getting more in tune with the flow of the wave. Besides benefiting surfing, Nic also observed that the forbidden weed had clear benefits on multiple other activities, from love-making to appreciating music and art, from healing to relaxing and unwinding, the benefits were so numerous, while the negatives were but one.

While Nic deeply enjoyed the benefits provided by cannabis, he detested the fact that the herbs cultivation, possession, use and sale were prohibited. He reasoned that to be locked in a cage for using, growing or sharing a beneficial medicinal herb was complete insanity. Who does man think he is to make nature illegal? Could it be that the gods had really somehow got it wrong and made a bad, naughty, evil plant that the government must protect us from? Or was it that sinister vested interests where running a racket to protect their own competing products? Nic just somehow knew the later just had to be true. Luckily as a horticulture student, he also knew there just had to be other herbs around the planet that offered beneficial effects just like Cannabis, but were not yet prohibited. The benefits could still be enjoyed without the threat of ruining ones life.

About this time Nic crossed paths with another student who was experimenting with a poisonous shamanic herb called Datura. He prepared Nic a brew made from the flowers of the Datura plant and some strange, toxic and unpleasant effects were experienced. For the next few days there were unpleasant after effects including blurred vision. While the Datura experiment was not worth repeating, it certainly confirmed Nic’s hypothesis that there were other plants out there that were legal and capable of producing profound psychoactive effects. A short time later while looking for interesting literature in the Wellington public library, Nic stumbled across the two books that would change the course of his life and act as the catalyst for what would one day become MindFuel.

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