Can you hallucinate from smoking banana peels?

Question

I've always heard about this, but never tried it. I'm not even sure I want to.... what's the real deal? Is there a pschoactive chemical in the peel? if so, what is it?

Answer 1

well, for a long time people thought that you could, after William Powell wrote in the Anarchist Cook Book, produced in 1970. It became an urban legend but researchers at New York University have found that banana peel contains no intoxicating chemicals, and that smoking it produces only a placebo effect. Over the years, bananadine has become a popular urban legend.

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Answer 2

Smoking Banana Peel

Answer 3

No.

"Bananadine is a fictional psychoactive substance which is allegedly extracted from banana peels. A recipe for its extraction from banana peel was originally published as a hoax in the Berkeley Barb in March 1967.

It became more widely known when William Powell, believing it to be true, reproduced the method in The Anarchist Cookbook in 1970 under the name "Musa Sapientum Bananadine" (referring to the banana's binomial nomenclature).

Researchers at New York University have found that banana peel contains no intoxicating chemicals, and that smoking it produces only a placebo effect. Over the years, bananadine has become a popular urban legend."

Answer 4

It's not true. The Anarchist's Cookbook by William Powell in 1971 gave a procedure for scraping banana peels and smoking. Another interesting book from the era is Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book. Guides for the hippie counter-culture,full of scams.

Answer 5

No, no, no no- it's an urban myth! Believe me; although I've never tried it myself, I've heard the rumour and I have a friend who tried it and it resulted in nought but disappointment and anguish. I seem to remember his method involving microwaving his 'skins (street slang for banana skins)' before smoking it. It didn't work. Then again, maybe he 'cooked out' the psychotropic chemicals but I seriously doubt it. Try it but don't get your hopes up. I'm no chemist but I'm convinced that 'skins' do not contain any psychoactive chemicals. They (well what they contain anyway) are however a good source of potassium.

Answer 6

Put away your anarchist cookbook recipe and move on with your life.

As far as hallucinating, you can do that with just about anything. Hallucinations are often caused by foreign substances of any sort affecting your body chemistry due to toxicity. Whether it's the hallucination that you thought was going to be fun or not is a different story.

Answer 7

Well let me tell you a little story.......me and my friends heard the same story about banana's.....Me about 5 friends were sitting in my house, passing the bong around...and would you know someone brought up the story about banana's being a hallucinogen if you smoked it...well the more we talked about it the more we wanted to try it so, we got a banana pealed it and put the peel in the oven on a low temp to dry it out a bit....we got it dried out and packed it up......and come to find out it was the worst idea we had come up with to date....we all did it....all of us spent the next hour coughing and ganging ....i couldn't get rid of the taste of burning banana's for a week
spare yourself the experience

Answer 8

I'm still trying to figure out how you would smoke a banana peel?

Answer 9

one million. get rid of banana from peel, eat banana or throw it away. 2. open peel each and each of how up, lay on a cookie sheet, sprinkle with olive oil, and bake on 350 for one million hour. 3. get rid of from oven, enable cool for 10 minutes. 4. run the peel via a hand grinder 5. positioned the grounds lower back on the cookie sheet, spreaded out gently and bake for yet another 30 min. 6. take out of oven, enable cool as quickly as lower back 7. get a dishevelled, fall apart grounds via hand into dishevelled. 8. upload one million tablespoon of oreganew 9. shake and combine properly 10. upload 2 slices of orange peels. 11. freeze overnite 12. take out of freezer next day thirteen. enable it get room tempiture 14. sprinkle a solid line in rolling paper, and roll tight. 15. take a tournament, easy it and luxuriate in.

Answer 10

...wow, I just had a 1960's flash back...and I was around back then... it was called "electric banana" and all it will do is give you a head- ache