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<p>[QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 2875854, member: 51347"]I did not KNOW that! For some odd reason, I always thought that Europeans were introduced to smoking substances from the Amerinds of North America... with Tobacco the main catalyst. Wow, smoking ghee, fish guts, snake, and molds seem desperate. </p><p><br /></p><p>LOL, when I was a wee tyke I remember lighting up wild carrot stalks to be cool smoking them. They were a tuber that grew to 8' with a sharp root that made cool spears when they dried out in the Fall. However, they were also hollow that made cool smoking sticks. Nothing came of it, no buzz, no different feeling other than it would be hot as heck when you cut the stalk too short. We dropped that "fun thing" after a couple experiments, and continued on with our SPEAR WARS using those wild carrot stalks! You could throw them a country mile then!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a spear and the kinda warriors we were when I was a wee lad (probly 6-8 yo) with those Wild Carrot Stalks (galvanized steel garbage can lids made a cool shield!):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]688328[/ATTACH]</p><p>Sicily Mamertini 264-241 BCE AE Pentonkion Zeus Warrior Shield Spear Mercenary Samnites- Messana[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 2875854, member: 51347"]I did not KNOW that! For some odd reason, I always thought that Europeans were introduced to smoking substances from the Amerinds of North America... with Tobacco the main catalyst. Wow, smoking ghee, fish guts, snake, and molds seem desperate. LOL, when I was a wee tyke I remember lighting up wild carrot stalks to be cool smoking them. They were a tuber that grew to 8' with a sharp root that made cool spears when they dried out in the Fall. However, they were also hollow that made cool smoking sticks. Nothing came of it, no buzz, no different feeling other than it would be hot as heck when you cut the stalk too short. We dropped that "fun thing" after a couple experiments, and continued on with our SPEAR WARS using those wild carrot stalks! You could throw them a country mile then! Here is a spear and the kinda warriors we were when I was a wee lad (probly 6-8 yo) with those Wild Carrot Stalks (galvanized steel garbage can lids made a cool shield!): [ATTACH=full]688328[/ATTACH] Sicily Mamertini 264-241 BCE AE Pentonkion Zeus Warrior Shield Spear Mercenary Samnites- Messana[/QUOTE]
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