"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'.

Wow; live and learn (that was a Donovan song??).
All of this is quaint and delightfully silly (me sitting in my bedroom
trying to smoke carroway seeds 30 years ago) except for the Datura bit.
That sounds like a nasty experience and makes me feel lucky/idiotic for
blindly trying things like that. One problem with health warnings on plants
like Datura coming from government sources used to be that governments used
to be just as bad at spreading lies about drugs as the long haired idiot
from next door. Now that I have kids, I would like information to be as
clear and factual as possible and without the hype that says that cannabis
will make you vote Lib Dem and listen to Bulgarian Jazz naked. When people
lie about drugs, the real dangers get blurred.



and eating nutmeg.

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

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