"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
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from "Des Higgins" contains these words:

Holey Saint Imelda!!!!
I am glad I never bloody well ate that then.
During one daft undergraduate phase, I tried smoking Carroway seeds
(disgusting),

Deliberately 'planted' urban legend, I believe.

dried banana skins

This was definitely put about to embarrass the 'authorities', and hoping
they'd be silly enough to ban bananas. (Hence the pop song 'They call it
Mellow Yellow'.

and eating nutmeg.

Nutmeg contains strychnine.

nope - nux vomica is the only source so far as I know

Bad enough that the "strychnine in LSD" myth persists, but if nutmeg
contained strychnine, rice pudding would be on the list of banned
substances in the sports world...(it is a stimulant in low doses )
It'd probably do your internal organs no good if you did ingest sufficient
for an effect - it's the sort of desperate thing abused in by the
incarcerated ...

Best to stick to proper drugs.

But the word 'nutmeg' is used for a code for
cannabis resin.

only amongst ye sheddi I suspect ;-)




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