I used to work on a site called The
Sputnik Drug Information Zone. The site was devoted to information on
inebriants both popular and obscure. We had a small humor section which
included articles about the great put-on that smoking banana peels will
get you high.
You can find a "bananadine" extraction recipe in The Anarchist
Cookbook, and the legend was allegedly the inspiration for Donovan's
folk-rock song
"Mellow
Yellow" ("E-lec-trical banana / Is gonna be a sudden craze"). The
band Country Joe & the Fish claim
to have passed banana joints to their audiences.
One story I heard makes the hoax out to be a yippie prank planted in the
Berkeley Barb in 1967 and designed to throw the authorities into a
tizzy wondering how they were going to crack down on the banana trade.
Anyway, the articles on our site were parodies of some of the sillier urban
legends and amateur chemist nonsense that were circulating on usenet several
years ago. But in spite of their tongue-in-cheek nature, and the fact that
they were posted in the Humor section of the site, I often get email
from people asking me to help them with their
"bannadine"
extraction method.
Below is the original article, and off to the right you'll find excerpts
from some of the email I've received.
The Definitive Instructions for Smoking Banana Peels
- Go to the grocery store and buy 10 pounds of bananas. (You used to
need 200 pounds, but the potency has gone up 20x in the last 30
years.)
- Remove the skins from the fruit. Save the fruit for later - if you
mix it with orange juice and drink it while you're smoking, it'll make
you trip real hard.
- Dry the skins in the microwave. This won't affect the potency, as
bannadine is not microwave soluble.
- The next two steps are a simple nonpolar-polar extraction of the
bannadine. This is necessary to get rid of the fungicide they put on
the skins, which is a type of strychnine. Grind up the dried peels
really well, and soak them in methylene chloride (zippo lighter fluid
makes a good substitute). Let soak for 2 days, and then rinse well
with ether. Discard the liquid and save the mush.
- Take the mush from step 4 and soak it in ethyl alcohol for another 2
days. Filter, and put the mush aside - you won't be smoking it.
- Evaporate the alcohol. The resultant crystals are 150% pure
bannadine. Put these in your pipe, light up and enjoy! (Keep reading
for the secret step 7!)
- Bannadine is normally only active when smoked; that's why eating
bananas won't do anything. However, that mush left over from step 5
is pretty tasty, and that's how I discovered that bannadine is
orally active if potentiated by dried peanut skins! Yes, its
true. I looked up the structure, and it turns out bannadine is really
closely related to DMT - it has carbon atoms and everything!
Hope this helps! And all of you who say bananas don't work can just shut
up.
From: pixie@netcom.com (David Van Assche)
ANDERSON, LARRY S (lsanders@unccvx.uncc.edu) wrote:
: okay... i've heard a little about smoking banana peels from different sources
: (the dead milkmen :) ) but what does it really do? how do you prepare the peels
: for ingestion? what is the usaual effective dosage? and which neurotransmitters
: in the brain are most effected? any info you are willing to share would be of
: great help. also, any info on growing herb. and processing it. please reply
: email, because i often don't have the time to look through all of these posts.
: thank you much...
Ok, Banana peels have a substance called Bananadine in them which is a
psychoactive tryptamine chemically related to LSD and DMT. I would say it
lies somewhere in between. Now, to extract the Bananadine one must scarpe
the chemical from the inside of the banana peels and then there are two
ways to freebase it. It is only active if you smoke it, although I`ve
heard of some people injecting it (Although this is dangerous because
banadine has strychnine in it, permenantly binding the bananadine to the
spine, where crystals may form if taken too often)
Anyway, to freebase, the best method is to mix 1/3 banandine with 2/3
baking soda (Bicarbonate) and then slowly mix in water and bring the
mixture to boiling temperature. You should be left with a rock like
substance which looks very much like crack (hence... the street name:
Banrack) This is then smoked through a crack pipe for best results... or
simply heat and inhale the fumes. The other way is to simply make a joint
with the bananadine and smoke it.... but this smoking it pure gives more
of a Peanut high effect, which is undesirable for some people.
Bananadine works by entering the blood stream and going to the brain
where it is converted to the neurotransmitter Bananodin, where it is
taken up by a group of receptors called the Bananyocine receptors.
The high is very very intense, and one can get addicted to it the first
time you take a hit, mostly because of the action of strychnine, which
inhibts the bananyocine receptors and causes chromosome damage, which can
eventually lead to a fluctuation in hormone levels causing men to grow
breasts...
I would recommend you to try it though cause its defenitly worth the high
it gives.... ohhh... and it also makes sex the most intense thing ever
experienced... orgasms are heightened to the extent that some people are
known to have gotten heart attacks...
--- Debaser (David Laurence)
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Readers Respond!(names deleted)
"I saw your web site on drugs and read the page on smoking bananas. you
mention all the bad things about it and all the serious health problems
that one can develoop, and then you say that everyone should try it at
least once. What the fuck is wrong with you?????!!!!! You know the risks,
but you do it anyway. I stay completely clean and part of that is because
I know the dangers of drugs and I can experience pleasure without
pharmaceautical enhancement. But you know the dangers and you do it
anyway. I s your life so sorry that you can't find enjoyment from anything
besides drugs?"
"thanks for the part about the bananas, now my friends might believe me."
"my friend told me about bannana peals and so i tried it but I guess I
didnt do it right because it didnt do shit so I just desiced to smoke a
bowl."
"is there a common substance that can be substituted for ether when rinsing
the banana mush? ethyl alcohol=rubbing alcohol, correct? thanx"
"Is banadin legal? And I would like to know what the bananna skins are
suposed to look like when they are taken out of the microwave eg black and
crispy or still with their colour yellow and also is isopropyl alchol ok to
use instead of ethyl alchol?"
"Abou the smoking banana peels. Can you just dry them in the microwave and
then just smoke them in a bong. Does this work rather than soaking them in
all that shit"
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