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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

No, sage it wasn't me,unless I posted something from the AZ Republic and 
forgot.  I had to look up the plant on wikipedia - jimsonweed?

The kids out here smoke cigarettes very young.  And, huffing paint and glue 
happens too much in some of the barrios.  When I looked in Wikipedia, it said 
that Faulkner had used it in The Sound And The Fury as a calming agent for 
mental patients ......bobford

p.s.By the way, if you want to point out a good, safe recreational drug for 
someone who has never tried drugs ....oh well .... :-)  ...bobford


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--- On Sat, 11/8/08, eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:

> From: eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Wild water
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 7:31 PM
> Don't kid yourself, where I grew up local kids knew
> these mushrooms. I'll bet my chemistry lab partner is
> already behind bars. Personally, I've never been
> interested in using plants as recreational drugs, although I
> can identify many of them. I think you may have pointed out
> in an earlier post that lots of teens in the southwest have
> tried smoking datura to their detriment, permanently
> damaging their night vision among other things.--Sage
> 
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 11:35:25 -0800 (PST)
>  bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> > There are some wild plants, as you would know, that
> can cause the water or the sun or the chickens to speak to
> you, all in human voice.
> > 
> > Yankee kids used to vacation down South and pick the
> mushrooms out of the piles of cow dung, like they thought
> no-one that actually lived there was aware.  
> > Many yankee mommas and daddys spent lots of green to
> keep little biffy or bunny out of the state correctional
> facilities.  Most locals never tried the stuff, (not the
> ones, I knew anyway).  I think the drug in the cow dung
> mushrooms is phenopsyclodine, but not absolutely
> sure......bobford
> > 
> > 
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> > --- On Fri, 11/7/08, eureka AT hctc.net
> <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:
> > 
> > I figure if plants  speak to me, water might, too ;-)
> > 
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