At 11:59 AM 11/16/98 +0000, Steve Mynott wrote:
lupulin ... I had a friend who claimed to get stoned off smoking hops and hop extract.
Back in the 60s (well, 70s) we could get stoned smoking just about anything; didn't matter if it was psychoactive or not, as long as you really _wanted_ to believe you'd get stoned from it. :-) I mean, if it worked with banana peels, it'd work with just about anything... On the other hand, an acquaintance of mine and some of his druggie friends decided to try smoking caffeine pills to see what would happen. Once. :-) You do not want to try this. He said it hits you with all the bad caffeine side effects, all at once.
There were inaccurate claims dating back to at least the 60s that hops could be crossed with hemp to produce a psychoactive plant similar to the recent Orange hoax.
I have heard of people grafting hop vines onto cannabis roots, which can ostensibly get THC into the hops while looking like an innocent non-contraband plant. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639