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Legal Highs: A Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Herbs and Chemicals with Psychoactive Properties
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64 pages, Paperback
First published June 24, 1994
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May 7, 2015
Reading Notes, Update 10pm Sunday
Note 3.
I've spent the afternoon going through about a third of the book and looking up stuff that looks 'interesting' and not dangerous. I spent ages on several sites selling alternatives to weed and psychedlics. Some of the sites were very pretentious shaman and enlightenment, some went for the bargain buds angle and some pretended to be really honest, you know like Google's Don't Be Evil, and I was half-sucked in with the idea of a legal high.
Then I went on to a couple of forums, including a cannabis one with reviews of the legal highs. Not good. Not good at all. But there were some gems among the descriptions of twigs and unknown herbs. Like blue morning glory seeds are treated with stuff to make you ill so won't eat the seeds. But if you plant them and harvest the seeds after the flowers, they are perfectly safe. Also that everyone knows about Salvia. It is sold perfectly legally in these fake drug places as Salvia O. The psychoactive one is Salvia D. (Divinorum). Salvia O is ... common sage!
So conclusions so far I will order catnip but for the cat. And whether there is anything more interesting and legal, I'll let you know when I come across it.
*****
Note 1.
I have just discovered why cats like catnip so much. If a human smokes it, it apparently provides a light, mellow, marijuana-like buzz which is intensified by mixing with tobacco. Now I certainly wouldn't dream of forcing *funta on my Lily-cat, but I do know that I should try it both with and without funta-leaf just so as I know what she is experiencing and to see if it is good for her. If this seems like something that would benefit my kitty, I might even grow some in pots. Not necessarily 'some' more like 'lots'. After all it is completely legal and perhaps even praiseworthy to get a cat high. Not me though, no sir, no way, I would never do drugs, not even catnip.
Note 2.
Funta is local tobacco that grows by a salt pond on a remote island. There used to be three people, two old men and an old woman who lived on this island and tended to it. If you went there you had to take three bottles of rum as they would never share and they weren't usually even on speaking terms, sometimes cursing and spitting-on-the-ground terms though. But they grew and cured wonderful tobacco. They are all dead now, no one lives there, but rastas sail out to harvest the wild leaves. Probably though I will use a deconstructed Marlboro Lite as they are a lot easier to obtain.
Note 3.
I've spent the afternoon going through about a third of the book and looking up stuff that looks 'interesting' and not dangerous. I spent ages on several sites selling alternatives to weed and psychedlics. Some of the sites were very pretentious shaman and enlightenment, some went for the bargain buds angle and some pretended to be really honest, you know like Google's Don't Be Evil, and I was half-sucked in with the idea of a legal high.
Then I went on to a couple of forums, including a cannabis one with reviews of the legal highs. Not good. Not good at all. But there were some gems among the descriptions of twigs and unknown herbs. Like blue morning glory seeds are treated with stuff to make you ill so won't eat the seeds. But if you plant them and harvest the seeds after the flowers, they are perfectly safe. Also that everyone knows about Salvia. It is sold perfectly legally in these fake drug places as Salvia O. The psychoactive one is Salvia D. (Divinorum). Salvia O is ... common sage!
So conclusions so far I will order catnip but for the cat. And whether there is anything more interesting and legal, I'll let you know when I come across it.
*****
Note 1.
I have just discovered why cats like catnip so much. If a human smokes it, it apparently provides a light, mellow, marijuana-like buzz which is intensified by mixing with tobacco. Now I certainly wouldn't dream of forcing *funta on my Lily-cat, but I do know that I should try it both with and without funta-leaf just so as I know what she is experiencing and to see if it is good for her. If this seems like something that would benefit my kitty, I might even grow some in pots. Not necessarily 'some' more like 'lots'. After all it is completely legal and perhaps even praiseworthy to get a cat high. Not me though, no sir, no way, I would never do drugs, not even catnip.
Note 2.
Funta is local tobacco that grows by a salt pond on a remote island. There used to be three people, two old men and an old woman who lived on this island and tended to it. If you went there you had to take three bottles of rum as they would never share and they weren't usually even on speaking terms, sometimes cursing and spitting-on-the-ground terms though. But they grew and cured wonderful tobacco. They are all dead now, no one lives there, but rastas sail out to harvest the wild leaves. Probably though I will use a deconstructed Marlboro Lite as they are a lot easier to obtain.
May 16, 2020
Excellent little book. Very good descriptions of effects and contraindications. Most of the drugs in this book I'd never heard of and some are decidedly no don't bother 😊
Nice little addition to your eclectic collection.
Nice little addition to your eclectic collection.
April 13, 2020
Great guide to the titled goods.
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