Nutmeg high—is this the new drug of choice among teenagers?
Apparently so, as a trend of young people are now posting videos of themselves on YouTube smoking nutmeg in another attempt to get high.
Doctors say that smoking, snorting or the ingestion of nutmeg, a popular cooking spice, may act as a hallucinogen after 15-20 minutes. They also warn it may cause nausea, body pain, convulsions and dehydration.
The YouTube video showed a young man eating an entire bottle of nutmeg, and then downs it with water that also has nutmeg mixed in.
Officers say that the video is just another example of “homemade highs,” a trend that finds legal substances to reach euphoria.
"I think a lot of the kids across the country when they see something on YouTube they like to try things especially when it comes to smoking something other than marijuana which they know is illegal they know it's going to cost them money to buy it. They purchase something like nutmeg, all spice, any kind of spice you can buy at the store legally and they go out and try it. They have to consider the consequences that's going to come a long with it," says Sgt Rickey Wheeler, in an interview with KTEN.com.
Unfortunately, the “word of mouth” way of spreading drug trends gets a whole lot faster in this digital age, according to Sgt. Rickey Wheeler.
Read more: Nutmeg High: Is The Cooking Spice the New Drug of Choice?
