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Mythbusters: Urban psychedelic legends

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Here is one. Exstacy is cut with coke or heroin.
Coke or heroin? Coke and heroin are expensive. More likely it's MDMA cut with crystal-meth or another stimulant but I've never heard of cocaine or heroin in the production of ecstasy tablets.
 
It has been used as a bonding agent when making blotters if I'm not mistaken.
No, that's the myth precisely. It never was and there's no reason for it, it's very toxic and it's not like it's more readily available than other bonding agents.

Also no bonding agent is needed to lay blotter sheets AFAIK. Although I think the myth predates the use of blotter paper, but the other points still remain.

I heard this was just fear-mongering
It is. I don't think you will find any non second hand report. It has never showed up in analysis by any analysis service. You won't come across LSD with strychnine unless you add it yourself.
 
Strychnine can be used as a chiral resolving agent, so it may have been used in an attempt to help to favour the production of LSD over iso-LSD. (That would be the "bonding agent", perhaps - and people might use it simply because they happened to have some, for example if they had extracted some strychnos seeds for the fun of it.) It also has a medical history of use as a stimulant among convalescents. Some people even like it in small doses.

I'm just saying, there are in fact a couple of at least half-plausible uses for strychnine here.

The bit about its presence in peyote hair tufts, on the other hand, is total… cobblers.
 
Bananadine!

That's right. According to The Anarchist's Cookbook, by William Powell, if you peel the white innards off a banana peel, boil then dry it – when smoked, it will produce hallucinogenic effects....

Tried that one when I was a kid... somehow forgot that I left the pot of banana peels on the stove... when my dad got home from a weekend outside the city and saw it – he totally knew what I was doing. =D
 
Tried that one when I was a kid... somehow forgot that I left the pot of banana peels on the stove... when my dad got home from a weekend outside the city and saw it – he totally knew what I was doing. =D
I always talked with some friends about trying it but were too scared haha. We eventually found out online it was nonsense.
I had a printed PDF of the Anarchist Cookbook. Yeah, a high percentage of it is likely false and what remains is unreliable, but it was perfect to give a teenager the thrill of the forbidden, I'd say. At least if they don't try to do something that could give them the "thrill" of blowing up their house lol.
 
Jenkem

Piss then crap in a bottle, put a balloon over it, and leave it out in the hot, summer sun for a week to ferment... when the balloon's puffed up, you're ready to huff!
Also works if you have access to reasonably fresh raw sewage, for those in-between times when you don't need to relieve your bowels (y)

Or so I'm told.
 
Bananadine!

That's right. According to The Anarchist's Cookbook, by William Powell, if you peel the white innards off a banana peel, boil then dry it – when smoked, it will produce hallucinogenic effects....

Tried that one when I was a kid... somehow forgot that I left the pot of banana peels on the stove... when my dad got home from a weekend outside the city and saw it – he totally knew what I was doing. =D
it does contain a high amount of dopamine... but maybe just feel good effect and not hallucinogenic... I thought it involved toothpaste and banana peel...
 
i have been told by multiple people that they know somebody who took too much [insert hallucinogen here] and ended up in a mental home thinking they were a glass of orange juice. this one really annoys me because after hearing it from 3 different people i started calling people out on it and they seem to think you are the bad guy for questioning them.
i don't know where it started but i heard it from people in two different countries. i don't know why some people are so driven to repeat stories like some kind of conspiracy mantra, not realizing they are spreading fear without knowing anything about the story's background. and the fact that they make it their own is baffling. i wonder if they even know they are lying to themselves or if they genuinely believe it???
if they genuinely believe it i wonder how many of these fake memories i myself repeat as if it is my own, not knowing it never happened 😨
 
thinking they were a glass of orange juice
I've heard that one too, it's a classic. There is also the version of thinking they are an orange and being scared to be made into juice.

I think it comes from this 1967 documentary, or at least the documentary shows it was already circulating back then and probably contributed to spread it. It starts at 18:36.

 
i have been told by multiple people that they know somebody who took too much [insert hallucinogen here] and ended up in a mental home thinking they were a glass of orange juice. this one really annoys me because after hearing it from 3 different people i started calling people out on it and they seem to think you are the bad guy for questioning them.
i don't know where it started but i heard it from people in two different countries. i don't know why some people are so driven to repeat stories like some kind of conspiracy mantra, not realizing they are spreading fear without knowing anything about the story's background. and the fact that they make it their own is baffling. i wonder if they even know they are lying to themselves or if they genuinely believe it???
if they genuinely believe it i wonder how many of these fake memories i myself repeat as if it is my own, not knowing it never happened 😨
On one of my adventures maybe 17 years ago or so. It was my first time trying this salvination divination substance for a good 5 ten minutes I believed I was a little chicken or like a chick friends said I was flapping wings sticking my neck out like one. When u came out of it I was relieved I wasn’t a chicken 🤣
 
I've heard that one too, it's a classic. There is also the version of thinking they are an orange and being scared to be made into juice.

I think it comes from this 1967 documentary, or at least the documentary shows it was already circulating back then and probably contributed to spread it. It starts at 18:36.

awesome! thanks for the link! i might have to watch that fully. i love drug scare propaganda, the things they come out with are crazier than anything you will experience on LSD :LOL:
 
On one of my adventures maybe 17 years ago or so. It was my first time trying this salvination divination substance for a good 5 ten minutes I believed I was a little chicken or like a chick friends said I was flapping wings sticking my neck out like one. When u came out of it I was relieved I wasn’t a chicken 🤣
:LOL: brilliant story, thanks.
i definitely agree you can think you are other things, including an orange or orange juice during the trip, but not for the rest of your life. usually those kinds of things are the result of coexisting problems or drug use.
 
awesome! thanks for the link! i might have to watch that fully. i love drug scare propaganda, the things they come out with are crazier than anything you will experience on LSD :LOL:
I can recommend that documentary, I think it's surprisingly even-handed for the time. It's interesting from a historical perspective, too.
 
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