Heh, this thread is great.
You can find out all the validity of all this stuff at a combination of erowid and snopes. Or from some idiot who has taken a lot of drugs.
Personally I could never get banana skins to dry at all
Smoking just about anything does have a mild short term effect but there are very few things that are actually pleasant to smoke, most things just taste like inhaling bonfire smoke and make you dizzy for about 4 seconds. The exceptions are well known.
Absinthe is a triumph of hype. It was banned in some countries mainly because it was the White Lightning of it's day, not because it is hallucinogenic. Thujone is psychoactive but not particularly trippy and is present in only small amounts in absinthe. Quite fond of the stuff nonetheless.
There's a fairly convincing arguement that the outlawing of cannabis in the states (which kicked off the whole drug prohibition thing worldwide) was racially motivated.
Poppy tea is a popular brew amongst those with chronic pain conditions who can't get enough analgesics from the doctors (especially in USA it appears) and with some recovering opiate addicts and not a few people who just like poppy tea. It is made from the dried heads of papavar somniferum which can be bought online or from florists. Poppy seeds for cooking do contain traces but are not viable for drug use.
Salvia divinorum seems to work for some people and not for others and it is a very all or nothing kind of hit ... either you get the above mentioned 4 seconds of dizziness from smoking something or you get smeared across the ceiling. Me, I'm never touching it again! :O
DXM and nitrous oxide, available in those small 'whippet' canisters (like soda bottle chargers, but nitrous oxide rather than carbon dioxide), are both pretty powerful dissociatives, like ketamine. I love nitrous oxide but it is hard to get much going on from those iddy biddy little things, you need a tank really, and since they don't let dentists play with the stuff any more that can be tricky to organise. DXM is more a US teen thing than anything else - it's quite hard work in large doses so you have to be fairly dedicated/desperate.
Never done morning glory seeds, but they require a fair bit of processing to not make you feel pretty rough, as I understand it. Nutmeg is going to make you feel dreadful no matter what. All the anticholinergic drugs (datura etc) are just plain scary and not unlikely to do you a serious nasty so best stay away. Same goes for the inhalant drugs which you probably *do* have kicking around at home ... solvents - paints, glues, cleaning products, aerosols etc. Say what you like about the increased availablity of drugs like cannabis amongst the youth of today, at least it's probably responsible for the decline in popularity of glue-sniffing, which was offing kids left right and centre when I was young.
Obviously only very specific species of mushrooms are hallucinogenic. I've never done amanitas, which is another rough trip, but the psilocybin mushrooms and I were good friends once upon a time and they do grow wild in many countrties. Always a danger of getting the wrong ones if you don't know what you're after though, which could end very badly.
Don't lick toads. Seriously. If you want to milk the bufotine and 5Meo-DMT rich secretions of the relevant species, dry them and smoke it that's another matter, but I still don't recommend it, personally. I never fancied 5Meo and bufotine is supposed to be horrible.
NNDmt though I'm quite fascinated by ... it's present in tiny quantities in just about all living things, including the human brain, and may well have an integral role in consciousness; it has fairly high concentrations in some plants and is one of the two main active ingrediants in ayahuasca / yage, which I still hope to try one day but probably not any day soon.
There are thousands of plant psychoactives around the world which are not illegal and have been used for thousands of years but to be honest all the ones that can actually be called 'fun' are now illegal. The remaining legal/herbal 'highs' are mostly either so subtle you'll probably announce they are bunk, or so unpleasant you'll wish you'd not bothered. It's not all pretty visions and dancing being a shaman, y'know ... there's a fair bit of pain and throwing up too. There are also a fair few 'research chemicals' ... so far legal synthetic psychoactives available to buy and try but you are fairly unchartered territory regarding dosage and effects, not to mention the guys in A&E having no sodding clue how to help you if you end up in there. Erowid can tell you all you need to know if you espeially want to go down either of these two routes.
As for banging up shampoo .... that's not on my list. You would be surprised the depths of depravity some needle junkies will sink to ... some are almost as obsessed with the process of injecting as with the effects of the drug and you've probably never known desperation like a real smack addict who can't score so anything is possible. Like smoking, injecting pretty much anything will have an effect but as soon as you break the blood/air barrier you are just asking for trouble imo.
In short, my advice for people looking to 'get high' would be ... forget the kitchen cupboards and ask around your friends, your kids, your colleagues ... someone will undoubtedly be able to give/sell/score you a bit of weed or something. It's by far the easiest and quite possibly the safest way.
