The question many curious teens have been asking this Christmas is intriguing, will nutmeg get you high? Yes the essential oil Myristicin inhabits about 4-7% of one whole nutmeg nut and can produce hallucinogenic effects. Myristicin is a natural chemical in nutmeg and is classified as a psychotic and neurotoxin stimulant. It works by disrupting the normal function of the central nervous system, which news reels describe as a high similar to marijuana.
As I dig deeper into research, it seems like the news compares it to marijuana only to provide easy reference. Nutmeg is more of a “Intoxication” than a simple marijuana like high. Snorting, smoking, or consuming large amounts of nutmeg to get high is much more similar to sniffing glue or gasoline than smoking pot. It is way more dangerous and the side effects are more permanent than that of a marijuana smoker.
On the other hand, using nutmeg to get you high is not as pleasant as marijuana. A user will likely try a nutmeg high once and never again, unlike marijuana.
If about censored whole nuts of nutmeg is being consumed to produce a high, it will take as much as 4-7 hours for the user to feel the effects.
Recently there have even been concerns of a nutmeg overdose causing cancer of the liver. While it is true that too much nutmeg can affect the health of your liver, there isn’t any major human research to support this. Unfortunately we still don’t have any concrete evidence about the long term side effects.
Animal studies have been conducted though and suggest that a nutmeg intoxication may cause liver cancer and other liver problems. The short term side effects of a nutmeg overdose include: , convulsions, hallucinations, puking, dehydration, skin rashes, and more.
In tiny amounts, like for cooking, nutmeg is still perfectly safe.
Its a little sad that parents may have to consider locking up their spice racks as well as their liquor cabinets.
I was recently a teen, I understand that a huge part of growing up includes experimenting with different things. Many feel they need to fit in with their changing friends and go the drug route to accomplish this. Parents should talk to their kids not only about the danger of drugs, but about the value of developing hobbies. What so many adults don’t understand is that TEENS THINK THEY ARE INVINCIBLE. you won’t get through to them by telling them drugs are bad.
Still wondering will nutmeg get you high? Short answer – yes – but let me quote something I heard on south park that makes more sense than any anti-drug ad I have ever seen.
“Pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it’s when you’re bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you’re not good at anything.”
The same is true for all drugs, reach out to a teens reputation and you have their attention. Lecture them on dangerous drugs and you will fuel their wild side of experimentation. Just my 2 cents.
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“If about censored whole nuts of nutmeg is being consumed to produce a high”
This is absolute drivel, as is the rest of this babbling nonsense residing on this site. Get your facts straight before you go upon a quest resolving to divulge factual information about this subject, please. The very fact that you put “censored” shows this.
Don’t be a douchebag. He/she know’s what he/she’s talking about. You don’t, and I know this because you, like me, had to google nutmeg to know anything about it whatsoever. So just shut the fuck up.
You can’t die from nutmeg. Eat 3 whole nutmegs, its a pleasant high, music sounds better, perception of space is distorted(your walking forward and it feels like your walking on the wall forward against the ceiling), it makes music sound alot better, and it makes u feel good in general. Eating more than 8 nutmegs will cause psychosis, eating more than 13 nutmegs will be lethal.
I used to eat the grind-ed nutmeg, or the powdered one but it was allways so hard to swallow it, because of the texture, it irritates ur throat and makes u gag so i just swallowed the fucker whole and its a kool, longlasting high.
Never smoked it though, even if you would smoke it you wont get holes in your lungs, smoking a nutmeg joint is as harmful as smoking a cigarette. But i prefer eating it because it lasts longer(about 3 hours rising, 4 hours peak and 6 hours comedown) and its more mellow. While smoking it hits u hard and fast(instant peak, lasts about 2 hours, then a 1,5-2,5 hour comedown) and doesnt last as long.
The point is, cocaine is bad, heroin is bad, opium is bad, lsd is bad, methamphetamines are bad, exstazy is bad, crack is bad, painkillers are bad(synthetic opiates,oxycodone,benzodiaepans,ketamine etc.), and anything else processed will be bad for you.
But, marihuana(weed), mushrooms(psylocibin mushrooms(magic mushrooms) and amanita muscaria(fly agaric, red shroom with white spots)), numeg, peyote(cactus), dimethytryptamine(ayahusca tea), mescaline(cactus) are not bad for you because they are natural. Anything that you can’t find in nature and simply eat and it will make you high, is bad for you.
And last, but not least. Be very careful with datura. Eating too much datura will be lethal, not because datura is lethal, but because it soaks up the water in your body, and since you’re high for hours, you don’t drink because you’re in another world. Thus, you can die from dehydration. The drug doesn’t kill you, but the lack of water that datura causes, can kill you. So take it slow, and find your dose by upping it, slowly. Don’t be a dumbass and overdose. Don’t make drugs look bad just because you don’t know how to use them safely.
Oh, and please. Don’t huff fumes from paint or glue. It can’t be healthy since its all chemicals.