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cat-nip

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 1:52 am
by killahump21
will it work? i've always wondered cause it messes up cats. wonder if it effects humans. reply i you have experience. thanks

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:14 am
by casperdj777
its will make your head hurt BAD & is less of a trip then i-dosers "trip" dose.
one day me & a friend was board, he had no weed or any cig's after he got his cat goofy on lots of catnip it would not shut up so he put it in the bassment & we could still hear it upstairs. we wondered if it made the cat flip out if it would make us trip so we smoked a joint size & it made us both feel like crap & was NOT worth it .
also other friends have reported the samething= head ack & no trip

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:16 am
by Ness
Cats freak out over it because it mimics the cat's sex hormone.

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 1:12 am
by killahump21
thanks guys i wont go near that now. :D

Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 1:31 am
by CircaX43521
If you can handle some smoke, you won't get a headache. and actually, if you smoke about 3 joints or a couple bowls, you can start feeling pretty stoned.

Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 2:57 am
by Ness
^Pure placebo. Do any amount of research and you'll find that it doesn't affect humans in any psychoactive way.

Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 5:31 pm
by CircaX43521
Try smoking a pure catnip extract, and tell me its placebo.

Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 6:07 am
by Ness
^Try doing some research and find me the pharmokinetics of "catnip". Oh wait, you can't because it isn't active in humans.

Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:49 pm
by CircaX43521
You mean "pharmacokinetics"? If you're going to try to prove me wrong about something, please try to get your spelling right.

And this is a topic I found on the matter.

"Nepetalactones are structurally similar to the active constituents of valerian (Valeriana officinalis), valepotriates, and thus might exert their effects through similar mechanisms, but this has not yet been demonstrated . Actinidine is a psychoactive alkaloid that interferes with GABA-ergic metabolism; it is a naturally occuring ligand (agonists) on benzodiazepine receptors and thus exhibit allosteric modulation of the GABA-receptor-proteins.
Liitle information is available concerning the pharmacodynanamics and pharmacokinetics of the nepetalactones. Long-term administration of the nepeta oil in mice resulted in induced tolerance to stereotypical behaviour, increased sleeping time and catalepsy. 8 Tolerance exhibited during cognitive performance- tests in rats. 7
Actinidine and iridomyrmecine apparently occur in Californian ants from the Myrmacomecocystus family (the first as a toxin, the second as a pheromone)."

Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 5:20 pm
by Ness
^Being tired does not equal being high :roll: Just because something has mild GABAergic effects doesn't mean that it will get you high. The "high" you're experiencing is mild sedation and the power of suggestion.

Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 11:07 pm
by Xavier
CircaX43521 wrote:If you can handle some smoke, you won't get a headache. and actually, if you smoke about 3 joints or a couple bowls, you can start feeling pretty stoned.
Smoking anything at all will make you feel lethargic and tired from the carbon monoxide that comes along with smoke. (which some people would consider as feeling "high")

So if you say your smoking a couple of bowls or 3 joints of catnip you've got to realize the most your getting out of that is lung damage. You can have all the fun you want with that circa, but don't go spreading your ignorance onto others.

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:56 am
by CircaX43521
My ignorance? Wow.

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:32 am
by Ness
Well you ARE smoking cat nip thinking you're getting high :roll:

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:49 pm
by CircaX43521
Did you idiots even read the article I posted?

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:04 pm
by Ness
Yes, it said it was mildly GABAergic, meaning it might make you yawn a bit.