Posted on 11/14/2005 10:23:57 AM PST by HOTTIEBOY
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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