What are some good marijuana alternatives?

[IranianDemocrat]

I heard smoking nutmeg and bannana peels can make you high.

[elfwitch]

1. pot or nothing...

I haven't found anything that substitutes.
The only thing I've ever had that comes close to the same feeling was demerol. But I had that while I was in labor so I didn't get to enjoy it.

[HEyHEY]

2. Yeah I tried the bannana thing at age 13 ...never worked

[Bozita]

3. Oxycontin...Hell, you'll go to jail for marijuana.

[Syrinx]

4. banana peels was a yippe hoax

They got some stores to ban bananas.

[mike_c]

5. no substitute....

Ain't nothin' like the real thing....

edited (twice!) because I'm stoned

[IranianDemocrat]

6. Shit now I just need to find some.

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[xJlM]

7. Hashish

Which is a derivative of marijuana, I know. Also Thai stick, which is simply marijuana laced with opium. As far as anything else goes... I don't know. I don't use drugs anyway, but I'm not going to look down on someone for doing something which was a part of my past.

[caledesi]

8. Turkish Tobacco. nt

[MrScorpio]

9. Parsley, Baby!!

I surprised that it hasn't yet been outlawed.

Oh boy, that means more for me!!

[Nikia]

10. A couple things

Sex, a good work out, or something really happy. These are the closest things that I can think of. I know of no substance that feels like pot.

[Dogmudgeon]

11. Avoid nutmeg!

You'll get mildly trippy, but you'll also get horribly sick, and one of the active ingredients (safrole) is a more powerful carcinogen than hallucinogen.

--bkl
Jeeze, I'm just Dr. Tripps tonight.

[On the Road]

12. Actually, There are Legal Alternatives

One that's been popular lately is salvia divinorum. It's a mild euphoric and hallucinogen. The active ingredient does not seem to be chemically related to any other known drug.

http://www.sagewisdom.org/

I bought some salvia from a NY mail-order house a few years ago, possibly from one of these places:

http://www.salviasupply.com/
www.salvia-divinorum.org/
www.salvia-divinorum.com

Using it as tea didn't work, so I tried smoking some. It was very harsh and the effects were very mild. So I tried the suggestion of heating some without burning.

That worked better. Still not a huge rush, but when I closed my eyes I could see vivid dreamscapes. Very meditative. I ran out of product and didn't rush to order more. The effects are supposed to get stronger with repeated use, so maybe I'll buy some more.

There are actually a bunch of ethnobotanicals, mostly from Mexico and Latin America, that can be bought. A list from http://www.salviasupply.com/:

entheogens, (and other ethnobotanicals on sale), belladonna, (nightshade, atropa belladonna), morning glory, (ipomoea) , wormwood, datura, (jimson weed, angels trumpet), amanita, (amanita muscaria), leonotis leonurus, (lions tail, wild dagga), khat, (kat), blue lotus, (nymphaea caerulea), skullcap, (scutellaria lateriflora), sinicuichi, (sun opener), mucuna pruriens, (cowitch), kava kava, (kava), syrian rue, (peganum harmala), sweet flag, (acorus calamus), kratom, (mitragyna speciosa), Sceletium, (Sceletium tortuosum), yopo, ayahuasca, yohimbe, san pedro cactus, (trichocereus pachanoi), saguaro cactus , (Carnegia gigantea), Peruvian Torch, (trichocereus peruvianus, peruvian torch dried)

Can't swear by any of them. Just be careful of the amanitia muscaria mushrooms. They're very toxic.