https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananadine
Bananadine is a fictional psychoactive substance which is supposedly extracted from banana peels. A hoax recipe for its "extraction" from banana peel was ...
https://psychedelicscene.com/2025/06/16/acid-lore-the-great-banana-hoax/
Jun 16, 2025 — The entirely spurious belief that smoking dried banana peel gets you high has proven remarkably persistent, despite being regularly debunked as a myth.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4253000
by AD Krikorian · 1968 · Cited by 8 — One of the many chemicals contained in-the fruit Musa sapientum, (the common banana fruit), bananadine has been found and claimed by many
https://www.nytimes.com/1967/11/12/archives/effects-of-smoking-banana-peel-held-only-psychological.html
"DMT is definitely absent in unsmoked peel,” the report stated, but noted that the smoke contained other sub- stances that made it difficult to detect DMT. The ...
https://doubleblindmag.com/smoking-banana-peels-hoax/
Apr 7, 2023 — Banana peels are not hallucinogenic, and there is no such thing as bananadine. If you're looking for a psychedelic experience, there are ...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/334021
by DR Rubin · 1967 · Cited by 3 — Such exotic preparations as morning glory seeds and desiccated banana peelings have been used.Up to the present a much more effective though l
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/smoking-banana-peels-1960s-donovan-mellow-yellow-hoax
Mar 14, 2017 — The concept of smoking banana peels today mainly exists as a cautionary tale about some of the sillier drug fads of the 1960s.
https://time.com/archive/6890220/youth-tripping-on-banana-peels/
The best that chemists can suggest is that bananas contain serotonin, a neurochemical that is closely related to such potent mind-benders as psilocybin and ...
https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ajp.124.5.678
Apr 1, 2006 — The recent practice of smoking dried banana scrapings to achieve a "psychedelic experience" led the authors to investigate the ...
https://nyujournalismprojects.org/eastvillageother/recollections/bananas
The Great Banana-Peel Smoking Hoax. They remember the hours spent laboriously scraping the inside of banana peels, boiling the unappetizing residue obtained.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-great-banana-hoax.-Bozzetti-Goldsmith/8c7b94f4721fbcbe99c70713ed0a59592fcfb8ac
The recent practice of smoking dried banana scrapings to achieve a "psychedelic experience" led the authors to investigate the hallucinogenic properties of ...
https://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/Bananadine
Sep 4, 2012 — Bananadine is a fictional psychoactive substance which is allegedly extracted from banana peels. A recipe for its extraction from banana peel was originally ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2h05tx/til_in_1967_a_magazine_published_a_fake_story/
A magazine published a fake story about extracting hallucinogenic chemicals from bananas to raise moral questions about banning drugs.
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF02908136.pdf
by AD Krikorian · 1968 · Cited by 8 — One of the many chemicals contained in the fruit Musa sapientum, (the common banana fruit), bananadine has been found and claimed by many
https://www.facebook.com/groups/peacelovesmileshippie/posts/821355030774171/
It was rumoured to be about smoking dried banana skins, which was believed to be a hallucinogenic drug in the 1960s, though this aspect of ...
https://grokipedia.com/page/Bananadine
Nov 26, 2025 — Bananadine is a fictional psychoactive compound purportedly extractable from the peels of the common banana (Musa sapientum), ...
https://daily.jstor.org/smoking-banana-peels-to-get-high-was-briefly-a-thing/
Jun 20, 2021 — It involved freezing the peels, blending them into a pulp, baking the residue at 200 degrees, and then smoking it in a cigarette or pipe (The ...
https://www.isminc.com/advisory/publications/the-source/fact-or-fiction-5-strange-ways-students-try-get-high
Oct 23, 2014 — Back in the '60s, a rumor started that you could get a hallucinogenic high from “bananadine,” a pseudo-chemical found in banana peels. The ...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6050795/
by L Bozzetti Jr · 1967 · Cited by 15 — The great banana hoax. ... Hallucinogens / analysis*; Humans; Smoking; Suggestion. Substances. Hallucinogens.
https://videttearchive.ilstu.edu/?a=d&d=vid19670518-01.2.47
We must move quickly to stop the sinister spread of banana smoking. Those of my colleagues who occasionally smoke a cigarette of tobacco probably agree with the ...