Urban Legends Relating to Psychedelics

[mwillis71]

In another thread I saw someone mention a urban legend that they heard when they were young about a kid who took to much acid and turned into an orange. The funny thing is that I heard the same one when I was young and it amazed me how far these little urban legends can travel just by word of mouth in a certain culture group. So, does anyone have any other urban legends relating to psychedelics that you can remember???

[feralronin]

Ahh so many...

But the most popular around me when I was in high school was if you took LSD 8 times you were considered legally insane.
WTF

[Irishlion]

Originally Posted by feralronin

Ahh so many...

But the most popular around me when I was in high school was if you took LSD 8 times you were considered legally insane.
WTF

Ha ha ha Here it was 7 times LMAO If that was the case then I am nuttier than a fucking fruit cake.

irishlion looks around, holds out his hand "check please"

[boatsoup]

i think everyone has heard the orange one in one variation or another. the way i heard it, the guy was so terrified of being peeled that he was brandishing a knife at his friends trying to calm him down. another good one i heard, though not really about drugs, is the guy who hot knifed a bee. this story i heard from a guy i used to work for, and he said some guys were sitting around in one of those old vw vans doing hot knives off a little camping stove. one of the guys sees an old dead bee along the edge of the window and dares one of the others to hot knife it. so after some cajouling the guy finally does it, and hot knifes the bee. he fell onto his back, appeared to have a seizure, and from that point on he never talked normally again. i don't know what kinda credibility to give this one, the guy who told it to me claimed it happened to a friend of his from high school, so maybe its true. i doubt it though.

edit: one more i remember is that you are no longer able to become a pilot after trying acid once.

[sangraal]

Ha! I heard a variation of the orange story as well.. and from a couple of different people who claimed they knew a guy who knew the guy. In this version, he was about to head out to school and put a whole sheet of acid in his pocket. His mother demanded he grab some breakfast before heading out so he sat down for a second, grabbed a glass of OJ and spilled it on his pants. Clearly, the orange juice soaked through his pants onto the unprotected sheet of acid and then right into his skin. Now he permanently thinks himself to be a glass of orange juice. Now and forevermore, he has to be kept in a hospital in a device that keeps him standing upright 24/7, because if he tips over, he'll think himself spilled over and likely die of a heart attack.

Still another variation of that above was a guy believed himself to be a giant glass of milk, chased by giant cookies down the road. Same story in the end, permanently standing up in case he spills out...

I've always wondered if these stories weren't propaganda produced and propagated by the feds or whomever in order to scare people away from psychedelic experimentation? You know, like the stories of COUNTLESS people thinking themselves capable of flying and jumping out a window to their death.. Or "Reefer Madness" *sneezes* BS! *coughs*

[shroom_seeker]

Originally Posted by Irishlion

Ha ha ha Here it was 7 times LMAO If that was the case then I am nuttier than a fucking fruit cake.

[ifyoucouldsee]

haaaa....
So.....
I've never been caught/arrested/the like
but i have many friends who have
and they're underage
and they've both gone to drug/alcohol seminars
in different cities,
since their MIP's or whatever...

So according to a few police departments in Kansas...
Marijuana turns your tongue green.
Acid/mushrooms make you see yellow.
Meth isn't as bad as crack.

The End.

[boatsoup]

reefer madness is hilarious! i remember when my friends parents pulled out the old "reefer madness" film and played it for us. we all smoked a j and had a great time haha

Bureau Official: Here is an example: A fifteen-year-old lad apprehended in the act of staging a holdup - fifteen years old and a marijuana addict. Here is a most tragic case.
Dr. Carroll: Yes. I remember. Just a young boy... under the influence of drugs... who killed his entire family with an axe.

[Shroomette]

Originally Posted by Irishlion

Ha ha ha Here it was 7 times LMAO If that was the case then I am nuttier than a fucking fruit cake.

irishlion looks around, holds out his hand "check please"

don't let him fool ya he is nuttier than a fruitcake. But, I love him just the same. So, that must make me the mild nut. hehehe

[extrememetal43]

Do you know what causes acid visuals. Well the back of your brain bleeds and the blood drips into your spinal cord and that gives you visuals!

O really?

[Howard Esteban]

Cat piss contains 2c-17, or something ridiculous. Bananas get you high.

I used to be on a board years ago where the older members tried to get desperate kids to do all kinds of stupid shit to get high,

like sitting in the bathtub and rubbing themselves with bananas for hours until they are visited by the spirit of belladonna, or to ingest cat piss to trip(years before south park, guys)

[SpiritMolecule]

Originally Posted by sangraal

Ha! I heard a variation of the orange story as well.. and from a couple of different people who claimed they knew a guy who knew the guy. In this version, he was about to head out to school and put a whole sheet of acid in his pocket. His mother demanded he grab some breakfast before heading out so he sat down for a second, grabbed a glass of OJ and spilled it on his pants. Clearly, the orange juice soaked through his pants onto the unprotected sheet of acid and then right into his skin. Now he permanently thinks himself to be a glass of orange juice. Now and forevermore, he has to be kept in a hospital in a device that keeps him standing upright 24/7, because if he tips over, he'll think himself spilled over and likely die of a heart attack.

Still another variation of that above was a guy believed himself to be a giant glass of milk, chased by giant cookies down the road. Same story in the end, permanently standing up in case he spills out...

I've always wondered if these stories weren't propaganda produced and propagated by the feds or whomever in order to scare people away from psychedelic experimentation? You know, like the stories of COUNTLESS people thinking themselves capable of flying and jumping out a window to their death.. Or "Reefer Madness" *sneezes* BS! *coughs*

Heres what I cant understand. If you take so much acid that you honestly believe you can fly.... why not take off from the FUCKING GROUND? Some shitbag jumps outta window...GOOD fuckem. one less moron

[Santiago]

Originally Posted by SpiritMolecule

Heres what I cant understand. If you take so much acid that you honestly believe you can fly.... why not take off from the FUCKING GROUND? Some shitbag jumps outta window...GOOD fuckem. one less moron

Man - that is a great point. I'm sure I've heard that before, but still - very astute observation.

I always love all the "family" myths you hear at a show. "Ah man, this is from the Silver family. Be careful, they make their acid with silver, so if you're going through a metal detector, you will set it off!"

Then there's just the good ole' "acid stays in your spinal column until the day you die" thing, which then propagates "Oh wow, I just cracked my back and now I'm having a flashback!"

[Raziel]

Originally Posted by SpiritMolecule

Heres what I cant understand. If you take so much acid that you honestly believe you can fly.... why not take off from the FUCKING GROUND? Some shitbag jumps outta window...GOOD fuckem. one less moron

Originally Posted by Santiago

Man - that is a great point. I'm sure I've heard that before, but still - very astute observation.

Bill Hicks I think ...

[dead_diver]

Smoking scorpion venom to get high, but I'm not sure if it is a myth or not...
QUETTA, Pakistan -- When they're in season, Ghulam Raza smokes scorpions.
He says he dries their stingers in the sun and grinds them, then lights the powdery venom and sucks the smoke deep into his lungs.
"Oh yes," he said when asked if the scorpions make him high. "When I smoke scorpion, then the heroin is like nothing to me." ...This sounds as bad as hot knifing bees

[Myc]

Grew up in a small town. Warnings at school were issued around 1975-76 about "hippies" passing out stickers with Disn*y characters on them which were laced with LSD. They were deliberately targeting younger kids but everyone was warned. LOL

No matter how hard I looked, I couldn't find one of those "hippies". Damn!

[~Hippie3]

there was blotter with disney characters printed on it,
i've done mickey mouse and goofy acid.

[dead_diver]

Originally Posted by Myc

Grew up in a small town. Warnings at school were issued around 1975-76 about "hippies" passing out stickers with Disn*y characters on them which were laced with LSD. They were deliberately targeting younger kids but everyone was warned. LOL
No matter how hard I looked, I couldn't find one of those "hippies". Damn!

I was looking for the same hippies LOL. I did get to do some of the "Sorcerers Apprentice" blotters with Mickey on them back in the day but they sure weren't being handed out for free...

[steeq]

I've heard the orange guy story too. Also, that acid was made with strict 9 (sp?) and that it dripped down your spine causing damage to it.

[dead_diver]

Anyone heard of gang members dosing the keypads on pay phones with liquid as part of an initiation? I spent an entire summer licking pay phone key pads and never got dosed once...JK

[Cornfield]

Originally Posted by shroom_seeker

got that right!

[roc]

If you did acid it would damage your chromozones and your offspring would be deformed.

Glad I never touched any of that shit! 5 healthy young adult children prove I never did any...

[mwillis71]

Man these are great, keep em coming!!!!

[lyqwyd]

Originally Posted by Howard Esteban

I used to be on a board years ago where the older members tried to get desperate kids to do all kinds of stupid shit to get high

what kind of a board was this? a skate board?

one of my favorites: i know the chemist

ever hear the one about mickey hart's son? found a vial of white powder labeled with a C backstage at a dead show. did a line, thinking it was coke. not coke, crystal L. homeboy is now in a mental institution.

dunno if this is true, but its a good story. man, a line of crystal... holy buckets.

onec had a friend try to convince me that some family or other used to initate people not with thumbprints but with foot prints......

[Shroomette]

Originally Posted by roc

If you did acid it would damage your chromozones and your offspring would be deformed.

Glad I never touched any of that shit! 5 healthy young adult children prove I never did any...

I remember hearing that once. I got 2 healthy children so, I know I've never done it.

[marmy]

i remember from my youth hearing about taking lsd X many times and you would be legally insane. that it was stored in your spinal column and that one would have to do a spinl tap to see if you took any etc.

i guess i do not know many facts about lsd.

[teesus]

i heared the spine thing and the chromosome thing about lsd, too .
another missinformation about lsd and shrooms are the possibility to have a "flashbacks", suddenly getting high sometimes after years of consumption. how could someone proof that ethnogenes where the reason after that time?i don't belive it. out of hundreds i have never met one who claimed this had happend to him. it is still written everywhere . even in medical articles

[seedlessstinky1]

Didnt Nancy Reagan say that smoking marijuana is the equivilent to murder? And thats when they really harshened the laws on reeefer?

[TastyBeverage]

I remember hearing that people that took LSD often hallucinate bugs crawling on them, and that many go to the hospital because they try to get the bugs off by burning themselves or poking sharp things into orifices like ears to 'get the bugs out'.

[teesus]

Originally Posted by TastyBeverage

I remember hearing that people that took LSD often hallucinate bugs crawling on them, and that many go to the hospital because they try to get the bugs off by burning themselves or poking sharp things into orifices like ears to 'get the bugs out'.

i heared this can happen from cocain abuse. don't know if its real or just the same urban ledgend told with another substance.

[i.p.freely]

lol, yes the orange story must have evolved into the orange juice story. i have heard both.

i have tripped rather heavily in my day, and i have never seen goblins or any kind of tangible hallucination. i have of course the usual introspection, and intricate patterns moving about, but never any lil purple elephants talking to me.

[boatsoup]

i remember someone once telling me that the reason mushrooms got you high was because they had rat poison in them and you were actually delerious from being poisoned. think my grandma told me that or something, obviously a blatant lie. i'd love to talk to my grandma now that i'm older and poke holes in all the crazy stories she used to make me believe.

[DasBoot]

Originally Posted by boatsoup

i remember someone once telling me that the reason mushrooms got you high was because they had rat poison in them and you were actually delerious from being poisoned. think my grandma told me that or something, obviously a blatant lie. i'd love to talk to my grandma now that i'm older and poke holes in all the crazy stories she used to make me believe.

yes grandmas can tell some doozies... lol this made me laugh thinking of all the stories my gran used to tell me and my brother... (we knew they were BS - but if we had her attention and cookies we didn't care - we loved the heck out of that lady) ...but she still tried to BS us into religion and away from drugs and alcohol... miss you gran

[mwillis71]

Originally Posted by DasBoot

yes grandmas can tell some doozies... lol this made me laugh thinking of all the stories my gran used to tell me and my brother... (we knew they were BS - but if we had her attention and cookies we didn't care - we loved the heck out of that lady) ...but she still tried to BS us into religion and away from drugs and alcohol... miss you gran

Mine did this too but did it out of love!

[jbburn]

What's funnier than these myths is that they hold weight in peoples minds if they've never experienced psychedelics. On a mushroom trip once I was fooling around with a large knife, merely a collector's item and one kid in the room goes up to another and says "Dude, he's on mushrooms! He might think we're demons and try to stab us!" I couldn't stop from laughing--just like any other boomer experience--and after a moment they come up to me and try to console me while I "gently set the knife down" for them. If it were my knife I would have thrown it and started screaming, but I don't break shit of my friends.

Looking back on it, I did see demons; and they thought mushrooms made you do bad things.

My favorite myth though is a variation of the orange where the boy is in an insane asylum and rocks back and forth, afraid that someone is going to peel him.

[Socklessman]

Well I did have this friend that drank some tea of a drug called Dantura. And well he ended up getting arrested because he was downtown at an intersection and was trying to direct traffic with only a shirt on and one sock. We had a friend that lived on a farm and he told us that the weed which he called gypsum weed will mess you upn and well too say the least if I know now what I knew then I would have never advised any taking of that devil weed. He ended up in the hospital for a about a week with delirium and phsycosis or what have you. True story.

Anyway I was surfing the information super highway and found a couple of stories one was in german about some fellas that took the Dantura and they ened up cutting their johnsons off. I don't think I need to see it to belive it but, that weed Dantura is a wicked dissassociate and I would not disbelive it, seeing the first hand effects of such a chemical.

[cuts]

Originally Posted by sangraal

In this version, he was about to head out to school and put a whole sheet of acid in his pocket. His mother demanded he grab some breakfast before heading out so he sat down for a second, grabbed a glass of OJ and spilled it on his pants. Clearly, the orange juice soaked through his pants onto the unprotected sheet of acid and then right into his skin. Now he permanently thinks himself to be a glass of orange juice. Now and forevermore, he has to be kept in a hospital in a device that keeps him standing upright 24/7, because if he tips over, he'll think himself spilled over and likely die of a heart attack.

I've heard the insane asylum version, and i have also heard the version where the guy puts a sheet of acid into his pocket and ends up running away from the cops and while hes running he starts sweating and the sweat leaches into the sheet soaking it into his leg. He ended up in the looney bin.
Oh and its not Dantura, its Datura. Quite dangerous.

[Howard Esteban]

Originally Posted by lyqwyd

what kind of a board was this? a skate board?

it was a forum kind of like this, but the older members were extremely jaded and sarcastic, and not helpful.
i think it was on the shroomery or erowid a few years ago..

[CrazyFinger]

Originally Posted by lyqwyd

what kind of a board was this? a skate board?

one of my favorites: i know the chemist

ever hear the one about mickey hart's son? found a vial of white powder labeled with a C backstage at a dead show. did a line, thinking it was coke. not coke, crystal L. homeboy is now in a mental institution.

dunno if this is true, but its a good story. man, a line of crystal... holy buckets.

onec had a friend try to convince me that some family or other used to initate people not with thumbprints but with foot prints......

There may be some truth to that story, except the part about him being in a mental institution.

There is a documentary, about Deadheads, where Mickey's ex-wife tells the story. The kid finds the shit and she goes on to say "he cut out two big railroad ties and snorted it." Although they had tp peel him off the ceiling, he lived through it and is fine today. The fact she tells the story with a sense of pride and big smile on her face, I would say it's probably true to some extent.