Posted on 11/14/2005 10:23:57 AM PST by HOTTIEBOY
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Your backyard garden is a quick and easy way for kids to get high, Oklahoma City television station KOCO reported.
For gardeners, Heavenly Blue Morning Glories can be just the splash of color they need to illuminate their gardens. However, some teens have found a different use -- an LSD-like trip.
"You can tell an avid gardener from a 15-, 16-year-old kid," said Linda Shackleford of the TLC Nursery.
So, when packs of teens kept showing up at TLC Nursery, workers there smelled something other then flowers. The teens weren't there for the packs of pansies or the patio pots.
They were there for the high.
"When we have kids go in that door and come immediately to seed racks we get a little suspicious," she said.
That's because, tucked in with all the bulbs and the beans, are packets of Heavenly Blues morning glory seeds.
"Of course, since the beginning of time, kids would find things that would make them hallucinate and all that," Shackleford said. "It was LSD and grapevine when we were kids."
Like LSD, morning glory seeds contain a hallucinogenic chemical.
It wasn't difficult to learn more about it. A simple Google search provided a wealth of information.
Recipes for proper chemical extraction were among the first items included in the search results. User testimonials were popular as well, some detailing psychedelic trips and less pleasant journeys -- even hellish experiences.
One person described his Heavenly Blue encounter -- waking up in cold sweats with the most terrible intestinal discomfort he's ever had.
The recipe hasn't reached every ear in Oklahoma schools, but the news of Heavenly Blue's growing popularity among teens wasn't exactly a surprise, the station reported.
However, it does mean that the folks at TLC Nursery are making changes to their policies regarding seed sales: No more than a couple packs of Heavenly Blues at a time, and if you aren't over 18, then no seeds.
Some patrons have put up a fuss.
"A little bit," Shackleford said. "But when you tell them I know the recipe, too, they say, 'Ohhhh.'"
However, the managers at TLC are resolute. When it comes to morning glory seeds and teens, if teenage intentions involve anything other than sowing, they can look elsewhere.
"We hate to see a good garden product misused and abused," Shackleford said.
Possessing the seeds is perfectly legal. In fact, you can buy them at most garden centers and nurseries. However, possessing the extracted chemical is illegal.
Also, don't think that just because growing season is nearing an end in Oklahoma that so will teenage appetite for these seeds. Shackleford said that just last week, another group of teens tried to buy numerous packs.
The clerk was suspicious, asked for IDs and -- in the end -- didn't allow the kids to buy the seeds.
My first roommate in college was a hallucinogenic seed from Nebraska.
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Fashion is cyclical. This was big news back in the 1960's.
A gateway seed?
Not as dirty as picking mushrooms out of cow pies?
typical liberal outlook - before their coming of age, there was nothing. does anyone thin k the WW-II generation engaged in the wholesale drug taking that happenned in the 60's? speak for yourself. everybody DOESN'T do it.
BTTT
Can no-knock raids on garden stores be far behind?
Oh well, back to the poppies.
This is REALLY going to drive up membership in 4-H!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_wars
How do they discover this stuff?
Somewhere there are a couple of guys going...
"Dude, let's extract chemicals from pumpkin seeds and try them!"
"Ok, that didn't work. How about azalea seeds?"
"Ok, that didn't work either. I know lets try morning glory seeds!"
Jimson weed has been known around here for a number of years. There are still idiots who will consume the seeds.
You only get to try datura (deadly nightshade) but once, maybe twice if you still have any kidney function.
http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/jimsonweed/jimsonweed.html
In 1676, British soldiers were sent to stop the Rebellion of Bacon. Jamestown weed (Jimsonweed) was boiled for inclusion in a salad, which the soldiers readily ate. The hallucinogenic properties of jimsonweed took affect.
As told by Robert Beverly in The History and Present State of Virginia (1705): The soldiers presented "a very pleasant comedy, for they turned natural fools upon it for several days: one would blow up a feather in the air; another would dart straws at it with much fury; and another, stark naked, was sitting up in a corner like a monkey, grinning and making mows at them; a fourth would fondly kiss and paw his companions, and sneer in their faces with a countenance more antic than any in a Dutch droll.
"In this frantic condition they were confined, lest they should, in their folly, destroy themselves - though it was observed that all their actions were full of innocence and good nature. Indeed they were not very cleanly; for they would have wallowed in their own excrements, if they had not been prevented. A thousand such simple tricks they played, and after 11 days returned themselves again, not remembering anything that had passed."
He did froth at the mouth, convulse unconscious and vomit -- but other than that it was a great high.
wipipedia - that rock of reliability?
the opium situation was largely localized and not as widespread as people may surmise. it certainly was not as common as marijuana was in the 60's.
and even so, what of it? it merely puiches the clock back a generation or two. the guy claimed that illicit drug abuse was going on since the beginning of time. exculping his own gererational folly by visiting the blame on others.
you smoked cigarettes so i can smoke hashish.
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