Does anyone know if you can really smoke bannana peels(dried) or nutmeg and get high? I’m not that desperate yet, but I’ve always heard this rumor. I even had a professor once who gave his pet parrot bannana peels as a treat. He said it contained a drug that made the bird feel woosie. Is there anyone else out there who has heard of doing such a silly thing? Even better, has anyone ever tried it?
Forget about banana peels – I’m surprised anyone is still circulating that old hoax from the 1960s. Evidence has now come out that the whole Anarchist Cookbook was a ploy in counterrevolutionary disinformation. See Secret and Suppressed, edited by the late Jim Keith.
Nutmeg can get you high, but it can get you damned sick, too, and even kill you if you ingest too much. Dr. Andrew Weil wrote a scholarly thesis on the psychedelic properties of nutmeg when he was a medical student, and he posted it on the Web somewhere. You can just Google the terms “Andrew Weil” and “nutmeg” and you’ll find it easily enough. Here:
http://www.pathfinder.com/drweil/archiveqa/0,2283,1699,00.html
From what I recall the effect of smoking banana peels is very mildly relaxing, but I haven’t looked it up lately so I may be mistaken. Nutmeg, on the other hand, can really make you trip out. If you eat enough of it (I think about half an ounce) you have hallucinations and your heart rate goes up. It can last a lot longer than LSD, usually at least 16 hours or so. From what I have read the experience is almost always quite unpleasant, which is why nutmeg is not a popular way to get a legal high.
yeah, nutmeg can get you loopy. consider my experience. I ate a big spoon of the stuff, washed it down with a coupla glasses of water (a lot of water- Imagine trying to eat a lot of cinnamon). Anyway, nothing really came of it. I had nasty tasting burps, but that was about it. I went to bed.
When I woke up, my eyes were bright cherry red, and I was stoned as all hell. Balance was off, I was giggly and kind of out of it. This lasted for a day and a half. As if I had been constantly dosing on herb for a day and a half.
Oddest side effect? My shits smelled like pumpkin pie for days…
jb
I tried using nutmeg several times back when I was in high school. Generally I would eat about a tablespoon, wait about five hours, and then it would hit. The first time I tried it I went into hysterical laughter on and off for several hours. The times after that it was more or less like a mild pot buzz that lasted for a day or two. Dehydrates the hell out of you, too. The last time I ever did it, I momentarily passed out from standing up to fast; I don’t know how much the nutmeg actually had to do with that, but I never bothered with it again.
I’ve heard of people taking larger amounts than I took and having really intense experiences–visual and auditory hallucinations so intense that you can’t even recognize them as hallucinations, you think they’re real. The effects, I’ve heard, vary greatly from person to person.
Nutmeg is for real, but the dose required for profound effects is large enough that it is exceedingly unpleasant choking down that much nutmeg. The guys I knew who decided to experiment had found something suggesting a dose of 3 or 4 whole nutmeg nuts which, when ground, yielded a little pile that looked about like a whole spice can full of the stuff. Terrifically hallucinatory, but I’m not sure you want that coupled to the gastric upset that is likely to come from what that much nutmeg will do to your stomach.
Banana peels - the event was called “The Great Banana Hoax”, and nobody seems to have a real well documented source for how it evolved. Part of the hoax was propogating the smoking of banana peels (the stuff scraped off the inside and dried) as “mellow yellow”. I remember the Smothers Brothers going along with the gag by making a comedy bit of a rendition of “Yes, we have no bananas” and there was also the Donovan song. I also remember the FDA running some tests after the rumor surfaced, and publically scratching their heads because they tested banana peels and found absolutely nothing mind-altering in them.
I tried the nutmeg thing circa 1979. Didn’t get stoned but I did get sick as hell! Don’t do it!!!
I’d like to chime in with my own experiences. A friend told me about doing nutmeg. He said it knocked him on his ass for a “long” time. He also mixed it with the crushed seeds of blue morning glories. These seeds supposedly have a chemical similar to LSD.
So, silly me, tried it. I used the nutmeg (two tablespoons worth) AND the morning glory seeds, 40 of 'em. I got bored and went to bed. It took a while to take effect. I awoke in the middle of the night with the greatest rush and spacey feeling. Sorta like staring at the ceiling and falling into your own brain. shrug
It took me some 3 days to recover from this. I was aching and miserable the whole time. The trip is great, but the come-down is a major bitch! YMMV!
malcolm x also dosed the nutters in prison. it’s in hius autobiography
jb
I haven’t tried nutmeg personally, because I have heard that it gives you a long and NASTY hangover… but have done Morning glory seeds! Not really worthwhile, IMHO… however, if you decide to give the seeds a try, BE CAREFUL what kind you get! Desperate for lack of any fun chemicals here in Korea, I bought a couple of flower stores completely out of morning glory seeds last year, ground up a bunch and choked them down (I really need some new hobbies!), although the picture on the front of the package looked like “Heavenly Blue” morning glories, they were in fact a Japanese strain that I had never heard of (I found this out later). I waited a few hours, nothing happened, so I went to bed. I woke up several hours later feeling weird, and almost totally blind! Oddly enough, I felt pretty calm about being blind! I got out of bed, groped my way to the bathroom, and turned on the light… nothing! With my face pressed right up to within a few inches of the lightbulb, I could just barely make out a little smudge of light…
My vision slowly came back over the next several hours, and the next day I felt fine and could see again… but I’ll never do that again!
(before I get flamed, let me add that I have done MG seeds a few times in the states, with no ill effects… I just got stupid, and ate some without really knowing what strain they were!)
Do not try this at home, kids!
The one time I tried nutmeg when I was young, it soon made me barf. No other result. End of story.
Just a cautionary note to anyone desparate enought to try morning glory seed for a high.(what, 7-11 run out of beer?) They are frequently coated with a chemical that makes you barf.
If you are undaunted by this, there are sites on the web outlining the proper way to prepare the seed and eliminate some of the undesirable alkaloids. I will not post them here though, if you must, you are on your own.