http://www.flashback.se/archive/FAQ-Misc-1.0-unfinished2) Hallucinogenic banana peels and peanut shells.
Utterly Bogus. From Jay Stevens, "Storming Heaven: LSD and the
American Dream" (pg 336):
"...Perhaps the best put-on, the grandest, was the Great Banana
Conspiracy, which first broke in the Berkeley _Barb_ that [1967]
March. A new psychedelic had been discovered, the _Barb_
reported, one anyone could obtain, since the only ingredient
was dried banana peel. Dry the peel, scrape off the inner
portion, and smoke it. The high, according to cognoscenti
quoted in the _Barb_, was comparable to opium, with some nice
psilocybin shadings.
From the _Barb_ the banana hoax bounced to the wire services
and thence across the country. Students held banana smoke-ins
and grocery stores experienced a repeat of the run on morning
glory seeds a few years earlier, as scraggly young kids began
appearing at the checkout counters with carts full of bananas.
Was America going to have to ban the banana? Or require
licenses before people could buy them? A congressman from
New Jersey jokingly introduced two new acts to Congress: the
Banana Labeling Act of 1967 and the Banana and Other Odd Fruit
Disclosure and Reporting Act of 1967. But not everyone was
laughing. United Fruit was more than a little alarmed. They
asked Sidney Cohen to find out whether bananas really were
hallucinogenic, a question that the FDA also was taking very
seriously. And after a lengthy and sober evaluation, it was
announced that bananas were good sources of potassium and
fiber, and definitely not hallucinogenic."
The Anarchist Cookbook on page 55 mentions essentially the same
recipie for extracting "Musa Sapientum bananadine". The recipie is
utter complete bullshit. The Book as a whole isn't much better.
A few pages later is a recipie for smoking Peanuts... bullshit again.
If you have the Anarchist Cookbook and are actually dumb enough
to follow it without doing some more research, you are likely to
become a classic example of evolution in action.
http://www.bluemud.org/article/11928 Banana peels have a substance called Bananadine in them which is a
psychoactive tryptamine chemically related to LSD and DMT. I would say it
lies somewhere in between. Now, to extract the Bananadine one must scarpe
the chemical from the inside of the banana peels and then there are two
ways to freebase it. It is only active if you smoke it, although I`ve
heard of some people injecting it (Although this is dangerous because
banadine has strychnine in it, permenantly binding the bananadine to the
spine, where crystals may form if taken too often)
Anyway, to freebase, the best method is to mix 1/3 banandine with 2/3
baking soda (Bicarbonate) and then slowly mix in water and bring the
mixture to boiling temperature. This is then smoked
through a crack pipe for best results... or
simply heat and inhale the fumes. The other way is to simply make a joint
with the bananadine and smoke it... but this smoking it pure gives more
of a Peanut high effect, which is undesirable for some people.
Bananadine works by entering the blood stream and going to the brain
where it is converted to the neurotransmitter Bananodin, where it is
taken up by a group of receptors called the Bananyocine receptors.
The high is very very intense, and one can get addicted to it the first
time you take a hit, mostly because of the action of strychnine, which
inhibts the bananyocine receptors and causes chromosome damage, which can
eventually lead to a fluctuation in hormone levels causing men to grow
breasts.