Tasmania! Day 1!

Mar 04, 2018 13:46


Monday, February 19th, Devonport - the sky is slate grey and casts a dreary industrial look on the town around the waterfront. Across the estuary the Spirit of Tasmania ferry we'd recently debarked looks like a giant toy with its discordantly optimistic red and white. I'm standing under giant bronze statues of flowers. There's a nearby ( Read more... )

tasmania, travelogues, australia, travel, my parents, roadtrips

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the_leewit March 5 2018, 00:33:32 UTC
Regarding the poppies--- I've heard bees can make morphine-laced honey from opium poppies. It sounds a little far-fetched, but possible, and I know you can get poisonous honey from toxic plants. Have you had any experience with this? My uncle did have to avoid using honey from one of his hives one year when he noticed the bees acting erratically and some weirdness with the honey, leading him to conclude that they'd gotten in to some marijuana plants, but I haven't done any beekeeping myself...

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emo_snal March 5 2018, 07:32:25 UTC
Apparently all or some rhododendrones makes honey that makes you trip out. I think it's not easy to make honey from marijuana that actually has THC in it -- I've heard of people doing it on purpose but they had to work at it, I forget in what way.

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the_leewit March 5 2018, 12:33:35 UTC
And here I was seriously thinking about blue morning glories and various cacti... shows all I know about drugs!

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emo_snal March 6 2018, 11:34:13 UTC
are blue morning glories hallucinogenic?

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the_leewit March 6 2018, 15:23:32 UTC
Apparently so--- the "heavenly blue" variety produces a lysergic acid that is not quite LSD but works according to some sources quoted on Wikipedia.

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emo_snal March 7 2018, 09:09:32 UTC
The things you learn! (:

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