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Smoking Banana Peels Is the Greatest Drug Hoax of All Time
- zunzun 8y agoSmoking composted tomato peels is much better!
- crispytx 8y agoI did this when I was 14 after reading The Anarchist's Cookbook :)
- marpstar 8y agoI never actually did it, but I was around the same age when I read about this on TOTSE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOTSE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOTSE) back in 2000-2001.
- jcampbell1 8y agoThe thin red skins from peanuts was another one from my childhood. Turns out they burn hotter than thermite and don't get you high. Not recommended.
- hugh4life 8y agoI tried this when I was 12 or 13... from textfiles.com.
- draw_down 8y agoMe too, but nutmeg. I set off the damn smoke alarm and wrecked my throat so many times trying to do that, ugh.
- ravenstine 8y agoNot jenkem?
- tcoff91 8y agoYeah jenkem is way funnier. For those that don’t remember Jenkem, the hoax was that you can get high by combining shit and piss in a bottle then putting a balloon on the opening and letting the baloon fill up with gasses for several days, and then inhaling that gas. Absolutely foul and extremely lulzy.
- ravenstine 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem > On September 26, 2007, the Sheriff's Department of Collier County, Florida issued an internal bulletin about jenkem based on a TOTSE internet forum post by user "Pickwick", which included purported photos of the manufacture and use.[6] "Pickwick" confessed it was a hoax around the time of the internal bulletin.[14] In November of that year, officials at the Drug Enforcement Administration said no reports of jenkem use had been confirmed in the United States.[15]
- cheeze 8y agoOh man, I forgot about TOTSE. I must have been in 6th grade when I used to browse that forum. Loved that one and rotteneggs.com
- csorrell 8y agoI always thought it was a meme too, and surely no one was dumb enough to believe or try it... then I volunteered at the med tent at a Rainbow Gathering in Wyoming. I can confirm at least one use of jenkum in the United States.
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- Jedi72 8y agoHuff raid
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- mirimir 8y agoHey, you get a little high from the CO ;)
- monochromatic 8y agoI remember reading about this in the Anarchist’s Cookbook as a kid. I never tried it, and I never learned that it was a hoax.
- sevensor 8y agoOne of my friends in middle school who had CompuServe downloaded the Anarchist's Cookbook and found this gem. We all believed it. But then he got into MOD files and forgot about banana peels before we got around to trying it.
- exabrial 8y agoOther than CBD oil.
- whttheuuu 8y agohttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2503660/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2503660/
- te_platt 8y agoThe hoax I wish would get around is that it is really good to smoke is dandelion roots. I love to imagine groups of teenagers running around at night digging out dandelions from random people's (especially mine) yards.
- krrrh 8y agoDandelion leaves are great in salads and super healthy. There are some teenagers who will appreciate that message, you just need to find them.
- maxerickson 8y agoGetting the root out of the ground kills them a lot more dead.
- andscoop 8y agoCurious, why "super healthy"? Not that I doubt the statement, but I think it's interesting that something that I view as nutritionally insignificant is viewed that way by someone else. Then again I'm not a nutritionist or even a particularly healthy eater, more just a nutritionally curious person.
- FlyMoreRockets 8y agohttps://healthyeating.sfgate.com/health-benefits-eating-dandelion-greens-4433.html https://healthyeating.sfgate.com/health-benefits-eating-dand... Dandelion greens are fairly nutritionally dense. They are high in vitamins and minerals, good for bones, blood and liver.
- stouset 8y agoI really hate this perspective on food. The vast majority of people who might have access to—or want to eat—dandelion are not malnourished and do not have vitamin deficiencies, and so adding dandelion to their diet will have zero net effect on their health. Swapping some vegetable out for dandelion will have zero net effect on their health. Replacing one doughnut with one portion of dandelion will have zero net effect on their health when compared to swapping out that doughnut for any other reasonable vegetable. Individual foods are, generally speaking, neither healthy nor unhealthy. Diets are healthy or unhealthy.
- numbsafari 8y agoIt’s also a bitchin’ Dead Milkmen song, but then maybe I’m just way too much into Philly culture...
- otterley 8y agoMellow.... it's so mellow.....
- yantrams 8y agoHey man where you heading ? :) I can never get enough of their song Lesbian Eskimo left-handed midget albino.
- soylentcola 8y agoMy first thought as well. You still savin' the seals?
- snarfy 8y agoI remember some friends trying it. It didn't work of course, but then we discovered nutmeg.
- DonHopkins 8y agoI thought it was a Born Again Christian plot to get more Atheist Nightmares into the hands of hippies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yBvvGi_2A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yBvvGi_2A
- nixpulvis 8y agoIt's a conspiracy! The cavendish were a plant by the government designed to not get you high. The old Gros Michel banana got you super high, I swear ;)
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- newname2018 8y agoAnarchist cookbook also said that nutmeg would make you fry. Didn't work though for me, However thier morning Glory seed recipe was right on the money
- caf 8y agoThe nutmeg thing is true, but you do have to eat a considerable amount of freshly ground stuff, which is revolting. And it's not a good trip, either.
- stiGGG 8y agoIt has a reason this not popular.
- bunderbunder 8y agoThat, and the stuff is straight-up toxic in the kinds of doses that can get you high. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0379073800003698 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037907380...
- kakarot 8y agoMost deliriants/anticholinergics are toxic at the doses you need to take for strong psychoactive effects. It's a dangerous game to play around with such substances. Very interesting results however if you're willing to take the plunge. You have full-fledged hallucinations of objects and events, and dear god the spiders.
- grawprog 8y agoMorning glory contains LSA a precursor to lsd https://erowid.org/chemicals/lsa/lsa.shtml https://erowid.org/chemicals/lsa/lsa.shtml
- tim44 8y agoI've had Hawaiian baby woodrose seeds a few times. Pretty cool.
- grawprog 8y agoBanana peels might be fake but you can get high off nutmeg....if you can stand to eat enough of it...I have zero personal experience with this. https://erowid.org/plants/nutmeg/ https://erowid.org/plants/nutmeg/
- warent 8y agoI'll admit that I tried this once as a dumb teenager. I mixed a huge amount of nutmeg into some milk and chugged it. The experience was very slightly psychedelic and mild paranoia, but mostly just a disgustingly, overpoweringly horrible recurring flavor and scent of nutmeg for hours, which I could only describe as like being trapped in a prison of nutmeg. The mere thought of nutmeg made me nauseous for years after that.
- nutmegging 8y agoFor me at least it wasn't possible to consume enough straight up to feel the effects, but one time I put ground nutmeg into gel capsules and swallowed a ton of them. The first night I felt a mild sensation, but upon waking up the next day I was surprisingly high -- it's a bit like marijuana plus a pleasant warm feeling. Even in the capsules though I still felt a complete revulsion toward nutmeg for years afterward.
- perl4ever 8y agoJust a normal amount of nutmeg in baked goods makes a noticeable difference and increase in my dreams.
- jacobush 8y agoIt should always be mentioned that nutmeg is very toxic.
- ToFab123 8y agoI tried to smoke banana peels as a teenager. It is still the biggest headache I have ever had. The pain. For days. On a side note, we tried to smoke almost everything we could set on fire. Nothing we tried came even close to the pain inflicted by banana peel. Actually it wasn't the peel we tried to smoke. I don't know the English term, but it was those long strings on the side of the banana we dried and smoked. I have been told it they are pure protein and that was the reason why we got that massive headache. I have not investigated if that is true.
- schoen 8y agoNative speaker of American English here—I've always just called them "strings", but Wikipedia says they're "phloem bundles". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phloem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phloem
- andrewflnr 8y ago...smoking protein gives you headaches? What? Why?
- kylek 8y agoRipe bananas have a lot of tyramine.....I guess???
- qwerty456127 8y agoWhich can be active if taken with a MAOIs inhibitor and is outlawed in Florida.
- the_clarence 8y agoHahaha. My friend did this as a kid as well. That was in 1998 maybe. Crazy.
- newname2018 8y agoFYI instead of the recipe in that ancient Rome I have personal experience that 30 grams of clean washed seeds ground up in a blender to " black pepper " consistency then mixed into a ice cream shake ( in the same blender) will produce a desirable result. Collect the seeds yourself , this plant is a weed in cali, it's everywhere and once you have learned to identify it you will be happy you did I've had the best luck with the brilliant violet colored flowers although there is a cream colored variety that works well too, it's just not as agressive as a noxious weed as the violet type. The cream colored variety is a much smaller vine
- drfuchs 8y agoCan’t find the image online, but the web remembers: Mad Magazine #116, January 1968: "A San Francisco Trip". This Don Martin cartoon shows a hippie preparing some banana peel shavings in a frying pan, and trying to smoke the result in a pipe. Nothing happens. He angrily stalks away -- immediately slipping on the peel he cast aside earlier. He bashes his head (KLANG), and THEN begins seeing paisley-styled hallucinations. - Dbenson
- travis_brooks 8y agoThis story happened in 1991. Like a lot of kids in high school I tried to smoke banana peels. They're wet and mushy and it was not at all obvious back in the days before the internet how you were supposed to process the things for smoking. The first time I tried it nothing happened, so I was pretty sure it was a hoax. But the second time me and a friend were bored so he had the idea to first boil, then microwave, then scrape out the soft bits and pan fry them until dry enough to smoke. We smoked this awful stuff and coughed for quite a while, but then discovered we were both extremely high. In 1991 I was very familiar with marijuana but this was quite different. Its been ages since I did stuff like that but I'd say it was like a less intense nitrous oxide, and it lasted for at least 4 hours. We tried several times after this to reproduce the recipe but had no luck. I have no idea how or why it worked that one time but it really did. I know my friend didn't sneak something into the pipe because there is just no way he'd waste hours mucking around with banana peels if he had some drug to smoke laying around. Also I saw him attempt to make it again several times, cough his lungs out and get no happy results. It wasn't a contaminated pipe, we used a pipe freshly made out of a Coke can because banana peel will ruin anything you smoke it in. It really happened but I have no explanation for it.
- ThJ 8y agoThis is exactly the sort of thing you'd say to make people who don't believe in the myth try to smoke banana peels anyway. "It worked that one time, oh, what a mystery, we must find the secret..."
- wrycoder 8y ago“They call it mellow yellow.” “Quite rightly.”
- yesenadam 8y agoOff-topic: Is it just me, or is there a URL 9206 characters long in the html of that page? Starting : The lead singer of the band <a href="http://www.atlasobscura.com/admin/articles/Drug%20scares%20are%20a%20dimebag%20a%20dozen, Why? Is that a record? I guess not.
- inlined 8y agoMaybe that’s why there was always money in the banana stand.
- infradig 8y agoWe used to smoke dried banana leaves as kids back in the early 70's. Never heard of anyone smoking the peels.
- peter_retief 8y agoMy older siblings used to have little packets of "beadies" (Packaged dry banana skins rolled into thin tubes) that I used to try every now and then. Packaging looked a bit like incense. Then of course we have nutmeg.. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/large-doses-nutmeg-hallucinogenic-high/story?id=12347815 https://abcnews.go.com/Health/large-doses-nutmeg-hallucinoge...
- Fnoord 8y agoI've always wondered if the hoax was due to (or inspired by) an ingredient of a variant of Ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi).
- mikeymz 8y agoIt started with the Donavon song "Mellow Yellow". But he was singing about a vibrator which you definitely don't want to smoke
- blakblakarak 8y agoA friend succesfully managed (once) to get it to work when we were 12. First we lightly grilled and boiled the bananas and mixed it with some reseve rolling tobacco that his dad kept above a kitchen cabinet in an old biscuit tin. We smoked one joint and then collapsed onto the sofa. It never worked again regardless of how many times we tried. A few years later his dad invited us to smoke a joint with him while his wife was away - and let us into his secret stash of premix, squestered in an old biscuit tin, stashed above a kitchen cabinet...
- pennaMan 8y agoThe US prohibition of cannabis is by far the greatest drug related hoax of all time
- JoeAltmaier 8y agoNot statins?