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. "