Re: [Leica] Re: Nutmeg

["Dan Post" <dpost@triad.rr.com>]

If my memory serves me well, the active 'agent' is strychnine, which in
small doses can act as  a 'stimulant', but can be rather nasty in larger
quantities- determining the LD in nutmeg would be a rather dicey thing to
try empirically!

Dan (Call me mellow yellow!) Post


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Bennett" <gbennett@lainet.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 1:15 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Nutmeg


> Here's what Burroughs has to say about nutmeg in "Naked Lunch":
>
> "Convicts and sailors sometimes have recourse to nutmeg. About a
tablespoon
> is swallowed with water. Results are vaguely similar to marijuana with
side
> effects of headache and nausea. Death would probably supervene before
> addiction if such addiction is possible. I have only taken nutmeg once.
>    There are a number of narcotics of the nutmeg family in use among the
> Indians of South America. They are usually administered by sniffing a
dried
> powder of the plant. The Medicine Men take these noxious substances, and
go
> into convulsive states. Their twitchings and mutterings are thought to
have
> prophetic significance. A friend of mine was violently sick for three days
> after experimenting with a drug of the nutmeg family in South America."
>
> I seem to recall he also talks about shooting nutmeg, in "Naked Lunch" I
> think (couldn't find the passage - maybe I'm hallucinating).
>
> Guy
>
>
> >Nutmeg reminds me of reading a Bird (Charlie Parker) biography where I
read
> >that it was an early pick-me-up, which gave one quite a buzz, if eaten
> >fresh. (the dried stuff has lost its zing). A college friend then
proceeded
> >to try and eat the rest of our packet of ground nutmeg and said it gave
him
> >nothing more than 'a pleasant headache'!
> >
> >Jem
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Douglas Cooper [SMTP:douglas@dysmedia.com]
> >
> >Oh, and by the way:  those colonial nutmeg facilities in Grenada are
> >*unbelievably strange.*  It's all about ghosts.  Nutmeg used to be a
major
> >commodity, in the line of frankincense and myrrh, and Grenada is
> >essentially
> >a garden.  Almost none of the plant species are indigenous:  the British
> >came over and planted the island, primarily as a factory for the
production
> >of nutmeg.  Now, of course, nutmeg isn't really the world's most exciting
> >substance, so all of these plantations are superfluous, and almost
> >deserted.
> >You still have chalk marks on the walls, to mark the weight and  measure
of
> >nutmeg; old iron scales from the colonial era; bats.
> >
> >Douglas Cooper
> >http://www.dysmedia.com
> >
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