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Thats what raising kids is all about. Giving them memories, even if those memories is their Dad being a tard. My two boys still bring up the "Dad verses the lawn chair" story. LOL

My favorite story your kids tell is, "Dad vs a pallet of Twinkies". I get chills.

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nutmeg huh?

you'd be amazed.

History of useJournalist Jack Shafer has written of nutmeg's long history as a psychoactive substance:

"Can you reach an altered state of consciousness by eating, snorting, or smoking from a tin of nutmeg? You betcha. The medical literature ('Nutmeg Intoxication,'
New England Journal of Medicine
, July 4, 1963; 'Nutmeg as a Narcotic,'
Angewandte Chemie
International Edition
, June 1971) has long respected the psychoactive powers of this compound.
Peter Stafford
's
Psychedelics Encyclopedia
uncovers an 1883 report from
Mumbai
noting that 'the
Hindus
of West
India
take [nutmeg] as an intoxicant.' Stafford continues, 'Nutmeg has been used for centuries as a
snuff
in rural eastern
Indonesia
; in
India
, the same practice appears, but often the ground seed is first mixed with
betel
and other kinds of snuff.' In 1829, a
Czech
physiologist named
Jan Evangelista Purkinje
washed down three ground nutmegs with a glass of
wine
and experienced
headaches
,
nausea
,
euphoria
, and
hallucinations
that lasted several days, which remain a good description of today's average nutmeg binge. One anecdotal report: A drug-savvy friend of mine compares his one nutmeg high to being keelhauled by a
freight train
on a transcontinental run. He didn't like it, but the substance has its enthusiasts.
Harvard
ethnobotanist
Richard Evans Schultes
and
chemist
Albert Hofmann
(father of
LSD
) wrote of nutmeg's ubiquity in Western culture in their 1980 book The Botany and Chemistry of Hallucinogens. 'Confirmed reports of its use by students, prisoners, sailors,
alcoholics
,
marijuana
smokers, and other deprived of their preferred drugs are many and clear. Especially frequent is the taking of nutmeg in
prisons
, notwithstanding the usual denials by prison officials.' (
Malcolm X
speaks of getting high on nutmeg 'and the other semi-drugs' while serving time in prison in
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
.) It has been used as medicine since at least the seventh century and was employed as an
abortifacient
at the end of the 19th century, which resulted in numerous cases of nutmeg poisoning, according to medical journals. Although used as a folk treatment for other ailments, nutmeg has no proven medicinal value today. According to the
Angewandte Chemie
International Edition
article, nutmeg became popular among young people,
bohemians
, and prisoners in the post-
World War II
period, 'and this use was mainly, if not exclusively, confined to the
USA
.' A 1966
New York Times
piece (subscription required) named it along with
morning glory
seeds,
diet aids
, cleaning fluids,
cough medicine
, and other substances as alternative highs on
college
campuses."
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Nutmeg is also banned in Saudi Arabia because of its contents usage.

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