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ESSAY SAMPLE ON "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 hippie
paper 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 peel
and then scrape the white material that is next to the peel out . You then
must put this white material in the oven at 200 Degrees C. until it is dry
then 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 gave
him a little bit of a headache.
Scientists said that their is a chemical in the banana peels called
serotonin and norepinephrine that are related to hallucinogens such as LSD
or " Acid " but it still doesn't work. Some people say the banana craze was
started 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 can
take with a banana is when you slip on the peel. "
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