just thinking about how people in the 19th century made such a big point of how "industrious" the mormons were and how this might tie in to how they'd banned coffee & tea, so instead they just made an ~herbal tea~ from this local plant that has amphetamines in itpic.twitter.com/EREUPfibt2
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big shout-out to herbal speed I guess this post sort of inspired by
@tressiemcphd getting a mislabeled tea that turned out to be ma huang, another plant in the same family, & finding out the hard way what it was
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and yeah before anybody asks, in practice the coffee/tea ban was mostly about just not pissing away the community's cash reserves on consumable imports as you can see it has little to do with fear of stimulants themselves lmao
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for the other commonly-asked questions here: it's called Ephedra, and it's a royal pain in the ass to grow it's a high-altitude desert plant whose seeds have to be stratified for A YEAR under specific conditions before they'll germinate
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and if you're thinking "Ephedra, where have I heard that name before" it's probably from herbal diet supplements in the '90s that were banned bc they kept giving people heart attacks
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Replying to @SarahTaber_bww
In my simpler boy scout days in the CA high desert, one of the naturalist projects would be to brew up some "mormon tea" for the troop from the local Ephedra spp.
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Replying to @rich_blaha @SarahTaber_bww
Holy crap, I thought you were exaggerating, but no, it’s literally just one hydroxyl group off from meth
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Yup The active ingredient in the ephedra plant is ephedrine, whose synthetic substitute, pseudoephedrine, is the scientific name for Sudafed Which became a controlled substance because it's a precursor to methamphetamine
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