As a side note to the banana strings...

Donovan has a song called "Mellow Yellow" I think in the late 60s or early 70s... The concept (as I've heard it) is that smoking those "strings" would cause a person to experience a marjiuna related state of euphoria.... whether this is pure balderdash or there is something to it, it seem people have found a use for the wretched things... or at least had lol...
Derek


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