smoking banana peels

Smoking Banana Peels Back in the 1960s a lot of
young poeple took drugs and these people would try anyhing to get a
"high." One Craze was called " Smoking Banana Peels " and that is what
this is about . It all started around 1967 when somebody wrote a
letter to a hippiepaper in Berkeley , California to the ' Berkeley Barb ' and
explained how to smoke a banana peel to get high. First you have to peel
the banana peeland then scrape the white material that is next to the peel
out . You thenmust put this white material in the oven at 200 Degrees C.
until it is drythen roll it into a cigarette. A bunch of other hippie papers
copied the instructions and it became a craze and even TIME and
NEWSWEEK wrote about it. Someone I know says he smoked
banana peels once but he was "tripping"on mushrooms at the time so he
didn't know if it made him high or not. A friend of mine tried smoking
banana peels recently and he sasys it only gavehim a little bit of a
headache. Scientists said that their is a chemical in the banana peels
calledserotonin and norepinephrine that are related to hallucinogens such
as LSD or " Acid " but it still doesn't work. Some people say the banana
craze wasstarted by some hippies as a hoax because you can't make
bananas illegal.A man from the United Fruit Company said in
NEWSWEEK " The only trip you cantake with a banana is when you slip
on the peel. "