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I take wild lettuce, and tumeric with black pepper fairly often. in 1998 or so there were "tobacco-less" cigarettes that my partner at the time bought me to try

I take wild lettuce, and tumeric with black pepper fairly often. in 1998 or so there were "tobacco-less" cigarettes that my partner at the time bought me to try, i think they're probably used as props on movie sets and for people who want to look "smoker cool" without the whole cancer and emphysema aspects - these were 100% wild lettuce, and smelled like what, at the time, i assumed was marijuana. I've since discovered that more people around that area were smoking catnip/wild lettuce than weed, since they're different, and it's not really that subtle. Plants, and how our gut bacteria interact with them - or not - are one of the most interesting things i can think of.

Terry_Roll 5y ago
> how our gut bacteria interact with them - or not - are one of the most interesting things i can think of Well if you want a laugh then, try some L-Tryptophan, a few grams a day but you can do more spread out over the day. You gut bacteria will turn it into serotonin and you'll know why serotonin is found in the outer shell of seeds. Lets just say it can give you a toilet experience much like having a hot spicy curry, you see serotonin irritates the gut in animals so the seeds get pooped out pretty much in tact so the plants can spread around, but serotonin can cause some tissues to sting enormously which is why curry can also sting. Pepper has something in it called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piperidine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piperidine which has a mild amnesiac effect https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15878668/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15878668/ so dont use too much pepper on your meal otherwise you might forget what you had eaten!