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From: [e-mail] (Donald the Curmudgeon)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Calamus Root.
Message-ID: <2hguq6$[e-mail]>
Date: 18 Jan 94 15:21:42 GMT

I once ate about 4 inches of fresh calamus root.

It's a stimulant.  It's a pretty good stimulant, in fact.  I didn't notice
any hallucinogenic effects, but perhaps I needed a larger quantity.

In any case, it's one of the foulest tasting drugs I've ever consumed.

--
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***Donald Athelstan Ball Jr.                    Department of Psychology***
***[e-mail]                      University of North Carolina***
***[phone]                              Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270***

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From: [e-mail]
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Calamus Root.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 14 Jan 94 13:57:56 GMT

I have been experimenting with calamus root, bought already cut to quarter
smartie size and dried.

I've tried making tea from it to no avail.  Yesterday i gubbed half an ounce of
the stuff.  Nothing happened again.

Allegedly, 10 inces of the root works to provide hallucinagenic effects....

Can anyone provide some info???

Herbie.

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From: [e-mail] (Jeremy Richardson)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Calamus=Vomit, vomit, vomit.
Date: 14 May 1994 20:03:08 GMT
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>


I just wanted to warn everyone about this particular herb.  I visited an
herb store last night, and recognized the name "Calamus" on the shelf from
the Legal Highs text.  So, being the rash and inept fool that I am, I
bought it, took it home and imbibed it as per the 20th Century Alchemist's
directions.  Bad move.

I drank this *horribly* bitter brew at around 10 o'clock, and experienced
little (if any) of the anticipated effects.  However, to my chagrin, at
around 3, I felt ill.  And I barfed, barfed, barfed, and for a change of
pace, I vomited.  I had my girlfriend call the Poison Control Center to
make sure that I wasn't going to die.  We found that Calamus' effects,
instead of euphoric, are a stomach irritant.  So, I spent most of the night
cradled around the Porcelain God.
Lesson 1:  reaffirmed "don't believe everything you read"
Lesson 2:  always check out what you buy, and make SURE that it's gonna do
what it is supposed to.
Lesson 3:  if you're gonna poke around the psychotropic section of the Herb
store, and try stuff, call Poison Control first to see if you should expect
bad results.
Lesson 4:  there are other, much mellower substances to partake of than
Calamus.
(not to mention tastier)
Jeremy

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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: [e-mail] (Gregory Braun u)
Subject: Re: Informations on Plants needed!
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 20:02:33 GMT

[quoted text deleted -cak]

    This is also known as Sweet Flag.  Native peoples of Southern
Canada(I believe the Cree) used to chew it as for its tonic, stimulant,
and alleged hallucinogenic properties.  It contains beta-asarone, which
is related to the phenylethylamine family of hallucinogens.  The proper
dosage is six to eight inches of the plant.  I bought an ounce of this
stuff, and tried it out.  The first couple pieces, aside from the burning
sensation in my mouth, tasted sort of neat.  The rest was *very* nasty
(something that seems to be a prerequisite for any natural
hallucinogen).  I managed to get it all down, and it stayed there for
about half an hour, then came back up for about four hours.  No fun.  I
did feel something, but it was more of a feverish state than anything
else.  I have sinced tried grinding it up and making a tea, putting it in
capsules, but with no real effects.  and nothing could get rid of the
smell and taste, which reminded me of rotting pine needles.  Just the
smell of it made me gag for months afterwards.  Not recomended, although
if you could extract it somnehow...Let me know if you have any success.

Greg

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Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: [e-mail]
Date: Wed,  4 Jan 1995 16:47:54 UTC
Subject: Acorus Calamus/Sweet Flag Personnel Stories

After locating a good supply of Sweet Flag I set out to see what it would
do.

First attempt:

Ate about 6 inches of the dried root. Nothing seemed to happen, so I
went off with my cousin to load wood for the winter. We were loading wood
and talking, when I looked up on a mountain top and there was this giant
figure looking down from the mountain top. It was dark and omnious
and didn't look happy that we were on it's mountain. At the same time the
figure appeared to be just trees. Then the apparition faded, and I went
back to loading wood wondering if it was an overactive imagination, or
the root.

Second attempt:

Passed it out at a party, about 6 or 7 people ate varying amounts. Only
one reported feeling "speedy". Noone else seemed to think it did anything.

Third attempt:

Well since it was "speedy" and didn't seem to have much other effects. I
ate about 3 inches of it fresh before having to drive all night. Bad move.
You know all those little things you see out of the corner of your eye
late at night when driving, but quickly dismiss. They took form. There
were little gremlin like creatures scampering about just at the edge of my
headlights. I kept driving telling myself it was the root and waited to
hit one. Never did. Swore never to eat it and drive at night, way too
weird. Then again maybe it was just exhaustion and too much coffee.

Fourth attempt:

Ate some (fresh) and went over to a friends house
 who lived in the woods on a lake.
He was messing around, and wanted to go into town. Waited on his couch
looking out an open door into a nice little field with a big oak tree.
The wind started blowing through the tree and the light filtering through
the tree started forming little fairies. The tree was full of little
tinkerbells and they were dancing about in a beautiful ballet. Then
I felt a pressure on my shoulder and a voice said "It's time to go."
The faeries vanished and I was sitting in a darking living room with my
friends hand on my shoulder. It was like waking up from sleep, but I
hadn't been asleep, just a kind of trace-like state.

Fifth attempt:

Ate 8 inches dried, nothing happened.

Sixth attempt:

Drove up into the mountains with some friends, some calamus root,
a flute, a loaf of bread, and some smoke. We ate the root, smoked the
smoke, ate the bread, and the laid about with flute music filling the
forest. It was a wonderful evening. No weird effect from the root it
seemed. Just watching nature. Then we were leaving in the car along
a scenic route past about three waterfalls. At about the second one
the car comes to halt and the driver yells "LOOK!". The water fall
had transformed itself. The rock under the falls was a giant easter
island like statue who was drinking up all of the water. It was staring
at us. At the same time I could see the normal waterful, it was like
looking at two worlds at the same time. Both existed, I could function
and act normal, but there was this other reality superimposed over the
one I was in. I could see into it, and the being there could see me
and knew that I could see it. We oooed and aaah for some time and
then went home in a somber mood.

Seventh and Eight attempts:

Nothing happened, both attempts were in the woods--seems to have it's
best effect in a natural setting but it just didn't seem to work
these times.
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