A Brief Analysis of the Smoking Banana Peels Essay

Smoking Banana Peels Back in the 1960s a lot of young poeple took drugs and these peoplewould try anyhing to get a "high." One Craze was called " Smoking Banana Peels "and that is what this is about .It all started around 1967 when somebody wrote a letter to a hippiepaper in Berkeley , California to the ' Berkeley Barb ' and explained how tosmoke a banana peel to get high. First you have to peel the banana peel and thenscrape the white material that is next to the peel out . You then must put thiswhite material in the oven at 200 Degrees C. until it is dry then roll it into acigarette. A bunch of other hippie papers copied the instructions and it becamea craze and even TIME and NEWSWEEK wrote about it.Someone I know says he smoked banana peels once but he was "tripping" onmushrooms at the time so he didn't know if it made him high or not. A friend ofmine tried smoking banana peels recently and he sasys it only gave him a littlebit of a headache.Scientists said that their is a chemical in the banana peels calledserotonin and norepinephrine that are related to hallucinogens such as LSD or "Acid " but it still doesn't work. Some people say the banana craze was startedby some hippies as a hoax because you can't make bananas illegal. A man from theUnited Fruit Company said in NEWSWEEK " The only trip you can take with a bananais when you slip on the peel. "...

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