Pirate's Banana Joints

[David Morris]

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David Morris

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 12:57 PM Jade Becker <jbecker13 at georgefox.edu> wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> I'm in the middle of Danny Goldberg's *In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967
> and the Hippie Idea*, and he describes the false story that circulated in
> 1967 about how "people could get high scraping the inside of banana peels,
> boiling the residue, drying it, rolling the resulting 'bananadine' into a
> joint, and smoking it." The myth became so prevalent--in part because of
> LSD users who smoked 'bananadine' while already high (and thus believed it
> heightened the effect)--that Congressman Frank Thompson started rallying
> for the Banana Labelling Act, a piece of legislation that would require
> bananas to be labeled with warning stickers like cigarettes. The FDA had
> eventually come out and confirm that bananas contained no hallucinogenic
> effects.
>
> This was news to me (youngster that I am), and it brought Pirate's banana
> breakfasts to mind. I haven't been able to re-read that section of *GR *yet,
> but I wouldn't be surprised if Pynchon were riffing on the banana-smoking
> phenomenon in some way or another.
>
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