Posted on 06/21/2019 6:38:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
I didn't know mulein was used for that. Sad.
There's the Velvet plant that has heart shaped leaves which is used for that purpose. Has the weirdest flower pods.
“Well... you learn something every day.
It looks like the mugwort plant is the one that is the weed giving me fits in my garden. I’ll have to check out the flowers against the plant description to see if that’s it, or its just a case of the leaves being similar.”
“By their fruits shall ye know them.”
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You and me both. Does it have a long root, kind of like a parsnip? This thing is impossible to get rid off in my garden! Grrrr.....
It looks like a morning glory flower and was prevalent in our corn fields as a weed.
It grows in the very worst conditions around here. Road shoulders and railroad track beds.
Locoweed. I saw a plant in a pile of soil a guy brought into his yard, once. He had no clue.
Ironically, smoking mullein has pretty much put a stop to my asthma problems. I suppose it might cause lung cancer down the road, but I’ve got enough medical issues that I’m not likely going to have a long lfiespan anyhow (I have five or six different autoimmune disorders), so I might as well be comfortable during whatever time I’ve got left.
So, no munchies?
To me it smells like the Thanksgiving turkey is burning in the oven.........
Every year I pick a new area in my lawn where I don’t mow for the summer just to see what may pop up. It’s amazing what shows up.
I saw this plant growing on my property one year and saved the seeds because it was a nice plant. I intended to look up what it was but never did. Thanks for the info that it’s Rabbit Tobacco. I’ll make sure to give it a designated spot in my garden and out of the weed department.
Eating is the last thing you want to do.
I saw two guys who had drank jimson weed tea once.
They were in agony.............
As a bit of perspective I grew-up in Pittsburgh where environmentalists decided to put 80,000 men out of work rather than have us continue to breathe in smoke that was at 1/100000000 the level you’d get from smoking any of this stuff.
New studies have linked air polution expecially particle size PM2.5 to diabetes. There is a very strong correlation between areas of high PM2.5 polution and diabetes.
So I looked briefly to find out if cigaratte smoke is PM2.5. While I didn’t find that, I did find that smokers have a 40% greater risk of developing diabetes.
So put that in your pipe and smoke it and wonder why your toes are being cut off.
If nothing else those pics help me identify what’s growing where I’m at thanks
I rarely spot mullein in Texas, or Maine which are the states where I soend most of my time. However, I see it all over the place driving from Texas to Maine or vice versa... so I usually collect it on the way. It’s not ideal to collect any plant from along a highway, however, because tire rubber breaks down into dust, that contains heavy metals that collects along roadsides. The metal is added to raise the melting temperature of the rubber. Apparently tires get up to about 200 degrees at hihway speeds and would not last long without metal additives.
I loved Djarums!
“Manson Family” members, in addition to lots of L.S.D. used Jimson Weed extensively. Nasty, nasty stuff.
I heard a Sunday gardening program a couple weeks ago talking about it as a landscape plant, the host casually mentioned over the air “I think you can smoke it and get a buzz” couldn’t believe she said that. Any 12 year old kid will hear that and try it.
It grows wild in our hay fields and starts to dry around the last hay cutting. It’s supposed to be dry when you pick it, like in the second picture. It seems to grow most places. I’m in S.E. Tennessee and it’s all over the place. It’s beautiful when it’s green.
I was born with Dain Bramage. Only hippies need the weed to achieve such greatness.
Cook at 350...it shouldn’t burn. :)
The THC itself is scheduled as a controlled substance, so it still wouldn’t be legal.
There are other cannabinoid compounds that aren’t scheduled, in fact, our bodies naturally produce some of them. I don’t think they’ll get you that high though.
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