Newsletter Archives - Vol. 2 No. 2 February, 2007
HERBAL-SMOKE NEWSLETTER
Vol. 2 No. 2 February, 2007
IN THIS ISSUE:
1) Featured Article - Mexican Tarragon ( Tagetes Lucida)
2) Cool Sites of Interest
3) The Story of Valentine's Day
4) My Space
5) Repeat Customer Discount
6) Feedback
7) Knock Knock -Who's There?
8) If you Enjoy Our Site
FEATURED ARTICLE
Also known as Mexican Marigold, Mexican Mint Marigold
Say the word Marigold and the bright summer flowers are brought to the mind. Images of Marigold rarely
include someone smoking this herb . Yet, it is a member of a group which does offer flavor and aroma for
our enjoyment. Tagetes. lucida is well known for it's uses in teas, and sometimes added to tobacco
Nicotiana rustica as a smoking mixture. Smoked, the plant is said to enhance closed-eye visions.
The Zapotecs use it as a primary herb in purification rituals. It grows throughout central and
southern Mexico and is popular with the Tarahumara Indians of Chihuahua and is revered by the
modern Huichol Indians as a shamanic trance 'Tobacco' who use it in their religious rituals.
The Aztecs used Tagetes Lucida , both for religious and medical purposes. The leaves were also an important
flavouring of 'chocolatl', the foaming cocoa-based drink of the Aztecs.
A strong Tagetes lucida tea is said to produce similar closed-eye-images to Peyote and offers a nice
distinctive sweet aroma and a mild euphoric high or state of euphoria. Used since pre-Hispanic times it
is also used in seasoning sauces, herbal vinegars, chicken dishes soups, teas, and vinegars. The dried
leaves and flowers make a pleasing, anise-flavored aromatic herbal tea.
SITES OF INTEREST
http://joeschwartz.net/quiz.htm
a VERY amusing site that offers the user a short quiz with astonishing results;
It'll only take a minute or two. When asked to name people you know, please be truthful;
it matters.
The Story of Valentine's Day
The holiday of Valientin's Day probably derives its origins from the ancient Roman feast of Lupercalia.
In the early days of Rome, fierce wolves roamed the woods nearby. The Romans called upon one of their gods,
Lupercus, to keep the wolves away. A festival held in honor of Lupercus was celebrated February 15th.
The festival was celebrated as a spring festival. Their calendar was different at that time, with
February falling in early springtime.
One of the customs of the young people was name-drawing. On the eve of the festival of Lupercalia
the names of Roman girls were written on slips of paper and placed into jars. Each young man drew a slip.
The girl whose name was chosen was to be his sweetheart for the year
Legend has it that the holiday became Valentine's Day after a priest named Valentine. Valentine
was a priest in Rome at the time Christianity was a new religion. The Emperor at that time, Claudius II,
ordered the Roman soldiers NOT to marry or become engaged. Claudius believed that as married men,
his soldiers would want to stay home with their families rather than fight his wars. Valentine defied
the Emperor's decree and secretly married the young couples. He was eventually arrested, imprisoned,
and put to death
Valentine was beheaded on February 14th, the eve of the Roman holiday Lupercalia. After his death,
Valentine was named a saint. As Rome became more Christian, the priests moved the spring holiday from
the 15th of February to the 14th - Valentine's Day. Now the holiday honored Saint Valentine instead
of Lupercus
MYSPACE
Don't forget Herbal Smoke now has a presence on MySpace.com. If you have a site at MySpace
stop by and say hello and add us to your MySpace. Were at
http://www.myspace.com/herbalsmokingblend
REPEAT CUSTOMER DISCOUNT
Don't forget we now offer a 10% discount on all orders from our repeat
customers. Just drop us a line requesting your 10% discount code that is
entered in the shopping cart to receive the discount.
KNOCK KNOCK...WHO'S THERE
If you have a stoner joke we'd appreciate hearing from you. We would like to
start a column "ON THE LIGHTER SIDE" where we will include your jokes in our
newsletter.
This months Stoner joke:
Two stoners are walking down the street and see a dog licking his balls.
One says to the other I
sure wish I could do that.
The other stoner says you better get to know him better first.
Hope you enjoy
FEEDBACK
Now you heard from me, I'd like to hear from you. What else would you like
to in our newsletter? What else would you like to hear about? How can we
improve?
Speaking of feedback we always enjoy receiving e-mails from happy customers
about our products. If you enjoy our herbal smoke drop us a line telling us
about your experiences with our service or quality products and we will add
them to our customer feedback page. We are always adding new customer
comments to this page. Lots of new feedback has been added recently
IF YOU ENJOY OUR SITE
If you enjoy our site do us and yourself a favor and "Bookmark this site"
It's easy simple to do and only takes a few seconds
Until next time
Daherbmun
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