Called's Smoking Banana Peels example essay topic

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Smoking Banana Peels Back in the 1960's a lot of young popple took drugs and these people would try anything to get a 'high. ' One Craze was called's 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 says 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. '.