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| | The Believer - Electrical Bananas |
 | | DISCUSSED: Bananadine, Underground Newspapers, The Proposed Banana Labeling Act of 1967, Merriam-Webster’s 2004 “Word of the Year,” Thomas Frank, Yellow Electric Vibrators, The Acid Casualty Theory of Rock History |
 | | Throughout that spring and early summer, the notion that one could get high from smoking 8220;banana joints” circulated widely, first in the underground press but also in the mainstream media and even among some gullible federal officials. |
 | | Recipes for “bananadine powder”—the boiled, dried-up insides of banana peels, which was rolled into tobacco paper and smoked like marijuana—were frequently reprinted, and some clever entrepreneurs on the West Coast founded their own mail-order company that sold banana peels. |
| www.believermag.com /issues/200506/?read=article_mcmillian (584 words) |
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