Path: typhoon.sonic.net!feed.news.sonic.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!rip!news.webusenet.com!cox.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Arclight Newsgroups: alt.folklore.herbs Subject: Re: Valerian question Message-ID: References: <638u7vg4h4ucas1efjq5ccru16askq9urh@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.91/32.564 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 33 Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 19:17:38 +0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.48.240.29 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk X-Trace: news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk 1048792078 213.48.240.29 (Thu, 27 Mar 2003 19:07:58 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 19:07:58 GMT Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.folklore.herbs:105446 On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 00:59:57 +0100, "Dr. Je$u$ Hanukkah" wrote: > >"Arclight" wrote in message >> as safe as smoking anything else. >> if you want to do it to get a high from the opiates wild lettuce >> contains then you had better be prepared to smoke an ounce of the raw >> herb, or extract the goodies from it, > >To be honest it crossed my mind (to get high), any idea about the >extracting procedure? pour boiling water over an ounce of the raw herb, and leave it to steep for about half an hour, filter out the plant material and squeeze all the liquid out of it, then put the liquid in a dish, and put it under an IR lamp and have a fan blowing over the top of the water to speed up the evaporation, then scrape all the black gunk off the bottom of the dish, and form into little balls, which you can then smoke in a pipe or a bong (preferably without any water in it, because the active ingredients are water soluble and thus a fair amount of the stuff that gets you high will be absorbed by the bong water.) -- TTFN Arclight Web Site: http://www.daniel-davies.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/