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    Just for fun: Mellow Yellow

    Probably best read and appreciated when moderately illuminated on a good Sativa.

    Smoking Banana Peels Is the Greatest Drug Hoax of All Time

    Drug scares are a dimebag a dozen, but the hysteria surrounding fake drugs is always fascinating to behold. Even today, mythical ways of getting high, from the gross-out nonsense that was Jenkem to the digital absurdity of “i-dosing,” are still popping up in the popular consciousness. But few of these viral blips approach the lasting influence, and outright silliness, of that time in the 1960s when people started smoking banana peels.

    Rumors of bananas as narcotics began swirling around the hippie scene in the mid-1960s. “Young people in the ’60s were looking for new ways to get high. It was a highly experimental era driven perhaps most by LSD and by growing pot use,” says the historian William Rorabaugh, who’s written multiple books about the 1960s including American Hippies. “But pot cost money, and hippies had little money. Bananas were cheap, so if banana scrapings worked, this would be a really cheap high. That’s why people fell for it.”

    As relayed in an extensive 2012 article by the Local East Village about the history of the craze, the counterculture publisher Paul Krassner claims that the rumor began in the publishing offices of The East Village Other. According to Krassner’s version of the myth’s origin, the editors of the paper were discussing the mechanics of LSD and serotonin in the brain, and then began to wonder if something more natural could produce the same effect. Realizing that bananas also contain serotonin, the eager hippies invented the concept of smoking bananas.

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    Very informative article. I had no clue about the origins of the song... wonder if the soda by the same name was named after the song, which was written about... Lol.

    Back in high school, I had a copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook, and smoking banana peel scrapings was in there. Tried it once with some friends, we probably smoked about half an ounce trying to get even a slight buzz. Needless to say, it didn't work.

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    $#@!ing potheads would smoke dog $#@! and used tampons if they thought it would get them high.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Obvious View Post
    $#@!ing potheads would smoke dog $#@! and used tampons if they thought it would get them high.
    Did you get stuffed into your locker by potheads when you were in high school or something?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ethereal View Post
    Did you get stuffed into your locker by potheads when you were in high school or something?
    Makes one wonder.....
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    I think I got rid of it a few years ago when I went on a tear and dumped a lot of stuff on eBay - everything from a vintage Mr. Natural drinking glass to a '50s Air Force jet pilot's helmet - but I used to have a small ceramic ashtray, probably purchased in Spencer's circa 1970, with a bunch of "far out" graphics and the words "Mellow Yellow". I don't recall my friends and I ever actually trying it, though. Pretty sure I still have my copy of Donovan's song, but his 'Atlantis' was my favorite.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Obvious View Post
    $#@!ing potheads would smoke dog $#@! and used tampons if they thought it would get them high.
    No we wouldn't!!!


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    Off to the VA again. Probably won't be back until tomorrow. RWNJ have a free field of fire. GO!
    Wearing a mask with your nose sticking out is like wearing a condom on your testicles.

    When out walking, look out for PROBlems. You know: maskless Plague Rats On Bicycles who blow past you without giving you time to get out of the way.

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    You mean that buzz I got in high school was wishfull thinking ?
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    Been there, done that, got a headache. A carved out banana does make a serviceable pot pipe when in a bind...oh, and @Captain Obvious, a tampon wrapper also makes a serviceable rolling paper, when in a bind...just sayin'.

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