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speedygonzales

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I mate of mine has just been to jail for four months on some amphetamines charges, but anyway he said while he was in the slammer he had scraped the insides of bannana skins and smoked it as did other inmates he sid the high was realy simular to pot has anybody tried this.?
 
Hey speedygonzales, welcome to Bluelight.
Before you ask your questions, it'd probably be best to do some quick SEARCHING of either Bluelight, or erowid.org .
Here's a good link from Erowid.
http://www.erowid.org/ask/ask.cgi?ID=1620
And here's a quick quote from it that answers your question:
Nope, though there are persistent reports of people who say you can get high from smoking banana peels, this is a myth from the 60s. There are no psychoactive components in banana peels. Smoking just about anything is likely to make one feel light-headed, but this is not the same as getting high.
Cheers!
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i went to extraordinary lenghts to test the fabled banandine experiment, as described in the anorchists cookbook. its crap, no effects.
I decided that perhaps through selective cultivation of the species we have changed bananas to the extent that they no longer have any tryptomines in them. I was one day going to try it with wild bananas, but given the comment above, i dont think i'll bother.
 
Your mate is full of shit.
The banana smoking story is a hoax that originated (to my knowledge) in the Anarchist's Cookbook, and it has been circulating BBSs and the net for about 10 years. Bananadine isn't even a chemical. There was also another recipe for smoking peanut skins.
All rubbish. Do a search on Google and you will likely find references to these being hoaxes.
 
Yeah I'm guilty of this one too. But I was about 13 and got it completely wrong and ended up trying to smoke the black stalky bit on the outside. Bit sad!
 
from The straight dope archives
(This is written by the guy that popularised the myth)
"Author would like to see publication discontinued. . . .
"The Anarchist Cookbook was written during 1968 and part of 1969 soon after I graduated from high school. At the time, I was 19 years old and the Vietnam War and the so-called 'counter culture movement' were at their height. . . . The book, in many respects, was a misguided product of my adolescent anger at the prospect of being drafted and sent to Vietnam," etc.
Powell says he got much of the information from military manuals at the New York Public Library, although it's likely the banana recipe came from the (ahem) alternative press. Without an agent, he submitted the manuscript to a number of publishers, one of whom, Lyle Stuart, published it unedited in 1970. "Contrary to what is the normal custom, the copyright for the book was taken out in the name of the publisher rather than the author," Powell writes. Repenting his youthful foolishness years later, he tried to have the book withdrawn but was told that since he was not the copyright owner he could take a hike. The Anarchist Cookbook is still available, its author reduced to pleading that the book is "misguided and potentially dangerous."
But you still want to know: Will bananas get you high? Of course not. The whole thing was a hoax first publicized in the Berkeley Barb in March 1967. The wire services, and after them the whole country, fell for it hook, line, and roach clip. "Smokeouts" were held at Berkeley. The following Easter Sunday, the New York Times reported, "beatniks and students chanted 'banana-banana' at a 'be-in' in Central Park" and paraded around carrying a two-foot wooden banana. The Food and Drug Administration announced it was investigating "the possible hallucinogenic effects of banana peels."
The outcome of the FDA study I have not been able to discover. However, in November 1967 researchers at New York University reported that a chemical analysis of banana peel had found no intoxicating chemicals and that the high was mainly psychological. It was obvious at the time, at least to some of us, that the whole thing was a put-on. I'll bet even the pranksters at the Barb didn't expect suckers to be falling for it 35 years later.
 
I was talking about this to someone the other day... and i thought i might bump this as when i read the anarchist/Jolly Roger cookbook all those years ago on my amiga i took this for gospel.. oops!! :p
 
I was going to crack a joke about injecting it, but in the interests of harm reduction I don't think I will.
 
I can't help but laugh when people tell me with a sincere look of concern on their face about people getting high off banana skins. It's the kind of thing that is so absurd that even if you believe it, when you say it to someone, you can't help but think "this can't be right..."

:)
 
haha well come on it was on the BBS/internet - it MUST have been true!! ;)

When i was in Yr 12 one of my friends did try the nutmeg thing in the JR Cookbook though - he said it worked but it left him with bloodshot eyes for well over a week after consuming 1-2 whole nutmegs!!
 
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Smoking banana peels is completely useless.

Feel free to make your own decisions about this or flame me if you think you know what you're talking about...but I've heard and experienced banana's (not the peels) to be semi-psychoactive while you are asleep. 3 friends and I ate 1-2 banana's before bed every night for a few weeks and experienced a noticeable effect on our dreams. One of my friends reported intensely vivid nightmares every night and I experienced an increase in the lucidness (is that a word?), length, detail and 'craziness' of my dreams...Even though I was smoking bud everday, I dreamt every night. The dreams were really bizarre and strange in nature.

I would consider the 'placebo' effect..'coz im a strong believer in placebo...but if you are asleep, can you really have a placebo effect, or do you have no control??? Oh well...maybe we were just inventing the whole thing.

Anyone heard about banana's affecting your dreams?
 
^^ They have Tryptophan in them, which is a natural precursor to 5-HTP. Messing with serotonin levels VIA 5-HTP has been widely reported to cause intensely vivid dreams, and, more often than not, nightmares.

:)
 
thanks for the confirmation guys...i cant find many psychadelics at the moment, so i might get back on the banana-bedtime diet :D

shorza - nah, tbh i've only pre/post-loaded a couple of times...i've taken 5-htp before bed a couple of times while i was cutting down smoking weed, but didn't notice any differing effects (probably because I wasn't expecting any) and just passed them off as 'normal'.
 
befire i read up on this i heard from a friend that drying the banna string things then smoking them gets you high. So one day i peeled off a few strings and left them outside to dry for a day or two. When i was thinking about going to get them it started to rain :( but now i read up on it im thikning it wasnt such a good idea :P
 
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