Posted on 04/29/2016 4:25:14 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking char-broiled red scorpions!
Back in the 1960s teens were trying ANYTHING to get high, even trying to smoke crushed aspirin.
Maybe we will soon see lots of scorpion smuggling and farms in the USA for the addicts.
Wonder how those Mexican scorpions taste!
Oh, I don’t know. Do you remember the supposedly growing fad out West among dopers who were finding desert toads who had a hallucinogenic secretion coming out of their eyes?
The approved method of getting high was to lick the toad. It appeared to be a really good money-maker for the dealers since all you had to do was catch the toads as they hopped along. I think the idea was for the dealer to sell the substance by the lick instead of selling the toad. You don’t want to let go of your money maker, eh?
Unfortunately for the toad dope dealers, the putative market of toad lickers was very small compared to the energy involved in catching hopping toads out in the hot desert.
I think this was another case of Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” of market dynamics dooming an entire industry in its cradle.
So endeth the lesson for today.
I remember being at a party in the early ‘70s where we tried to smoke the fish food.
Never made it to toasted scorpions, though.
I had a hard time giving up Marlboros. LOL!
Looks like a healthy (relatively speaking) Keith Richards.
“Lick A Toad!” —
The great thing about it was anyone using a toad to get high could tell the DEA or a judge.
“Honest, I was just standing there and this toad came hopping by. I had nothing to do with it.”
Or: “I thought if I kissed him he would turn into a prince!”
Yep, if it weren’t for that 30% we could convert that s***hole to glass.
Who knew this was even a thing?
Who knew this was even “a thing”? Good grief.
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