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Woohoo! Them's big beads! I loooove the morning glories. Those black and coral hearts are sweet, too. And the clear speckles spacers remind me of marbles. Yum!

KarenK

WOW.

~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

The bees are.. well.. the bee's knees. :-) Diana

Your beads are always so fabulous, Joan. I love the little ghosties.

I love your morning glory bead! It reminded me of the first time I saw "real" morning glories... the ones we have here are actually a white-flowering perennial also known as "Bindweed" or "Possession Vine". Real, blue morning glories are stunningly beautiful.

-Kalera

There's one local nursury that requires that you prove adulthood (ID) before selling seeds to "Heavenly Blue".... It grows "wild" in many southern Calif. green belts-- a pest plant. Kaytee "Simplexities" on

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 22:38:35 -0400, Kaytee wrote (in message ):

The ID requirement is because morning glory seeds can be ingested to produce an LSD-like high. Always surprises me how some folks even get such an idea. If I saw a flower or weed growing, it would never occur to me "gee, I wonder if I could get high off this."

The banana peel smoking fad of the '70's cracked me up. I would never dream of drying or smoking the peel, or even eating it for that matter.

I must be greatly lacking in imagination.

Kathy N-V

When I was in Reno for long term care, I got in trouble for smoking tea--the kind in tea bags. (yeah, it was stupid) When my dad found out, he told me that he smoked dried banana peels.

The thing that blows my mind is that people will do the damndest things to get high... and yeah, I know that as a species we are specially adapted to do those things, but it sure seems like a lot of effort and nastiness go into seeking some questionable effects!

-Kalera

Nope, they are, because they need bananannaaanaa (crap, I never get it right!) peels or morning glory seeds or datura to give them the imagination we already have.

-Su

They actually contain LSD-25, if I recall. So do the seeds of wild cucumber (another "pest"). I think the problem with the morning glories, is they also contain strychnine (but that may have been another plant we had to know about re: poisonings....). The worst "popular" getting high plant is jimson weed-- gorgeous blooms and closely related to some even more gorgeous garden variety plants; not only is it a pest, but it's poisonous to livestock. Kaytee "Simplexities" on

Blow me down! The wild ones frow all over the coast here.

-Kalera

To be fair, the 50s were a time of emotional and creative straight jackets.

The banana peel thing was from the early 60's, as was Timothy Leary's mind expansion experimentation (LSD). This was a response to June Cleaver and fathers who know best and jungle wars. It was more a matter of breaking free than just getting high (originally).

Tina

It is hard to explain that to our children, who see that era as people getting high and dressing funny. The part that I wish them to remember is one they probably wont get. It was a time of thinking outside the box when the establishment was telling them the box was good, and safe and right. It was later when the drugs became recreational, and escapist in use, and the fun clothing became a fashion statement and a form of protest unto itself. It was pretty cool to grow up seeing some of the wild expressions of self being invented. I was a bit to young to officially have been a hippy I think, but still consider myself one since I embraced the outside the box philosophy when it was right for me. I still find myself drawn to that sort of person. Usually they call themselves weird, but I know... ;-) thats just the creative side asserting itself adamantly. Diana

No, you're just not a drug addict. Clean and sober and I still think like that...

.Stephanie.

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No wonder I like you!> I was a bit to young to officially have been a hippy I

.Stephanie.

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morning glories, is they also contain strychnine (but that may have been another plant we had to know about re: poisonings....). The worst "popular" getting high plant is jimson weed-->

both of which stupid young people have managed to overdose and kill themselves on..

what idiocy -- of course, I call it "chlorine in the gene pool"

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Down in Calif, too. In the "green belts", mostly. Or, at least they used to when I was in high school/jr college. Kaytee "Simplexities" on

Thanks! I like you too! Diana