Oo-er! I ate half a nutmeg once over the space of a few hours in my dafter, sniff-anything-you-can youth, and it did absolutely nothing for me at all. Just as well I didn't persevere.
(Mind you, this was also the silly sod who bought several sachets of morning glory seeds from Woolies with a pal and ate them with Angel Delight, again to no obvious effect!)
At school a friend was told that lettuce could get you high, so we tried drying leaves on a radiator and smoking them. Revolting! It has to be said that our quest for oblivion and narcosis was singularly unsuccessful until we were old enough to go to pubs
Isn't it laudanum from lettuces? And isn't that why you're not mean to feed to chickens? And is that related to the flopsy bunnies in the eponymous tale coming over a bit dozey?
sean Downsizer Moderator
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 05 1:23 pm Post subject:
Laudanum is a tincture of opium.
According to the OC to Food:"The latex (or sap) resembles and smell like the latex of the opium poppy, but the plants are not related" It goes on to suggest that there's been little sedative activity in cultivated lettuce since about 1600.If that's what you're after you need to eat large quantities of the stems after the plants have bolted.
I looked this up in a book, rather than having eaten lettuce through the ages, so feel free to ignore it.
Wild lettuce is -mildly- narcotic, but not a lot. Domesticated lettuce certainly isn't. I don't know about some of the odder and older cultivars (celtuce?).
The opiates, produced from scaring the seed heads of a particular sort of poppy in a hot climate, have been used since at least ancient Egyptian times.
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 05 8:12 pm Post subject:
Well I saw some more banana on the cheap today, so I think a 3 gallon batch is called for Whilst I am still not sure on this one myself, I am sure someone will like the results
not only can nutmeg be hallucinagenic, you can also build a bomb with it it's in the anarchists cookbook (no i don't have a copy but i once knew someone who did!) but you'd have to have loads and loads
apple seeds are toxic, but you'd have to eat a lorryful to kill you..
never heard anything about the banana skins before, interesting...
i do know they are sometimes used for headaches, you just lie the inside of the skin against your forehead (haven't tried it) and you can use them to shine your shoes (have tried this, not too bad, not great)
Thanks Sean.
Whilst I am still not sure on this one myself, I am sure someone will like the results 
it's in the anarchists cookbook (no i don't have a copy but i once knew someone who did!) but you'd have to have loads and loads
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