Other plants like Cannabis?

[floralheart]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Other plants like cannabis? Are there other plants like cannabis out there? That create similar effects when smoked or ingested?

I'm asking you, because I have no idea. Mushrooms are kind of similar, but I have little idea as to what else is out there. [/FONT]

 

[_tessarecting]

Cannabis contains many terpenoids and flavinoids that are found in fruits. These have a broad range of effects from anti inflammation to muscle relaxation.This is why some strains smell just like certain fruits. Cannabis is like many plants in one in this regard. Some sensitive people like myself get synergistic effects from eating mangos and smoking bud for example. All is synergy. Its like cannabis has condensed all the good stuff in nature into one infinite one.

 

[floralheart]

Cannabis contains many terpenoids and flavinoids that are found in fruits. These have a broad range of effects from anti inflammation to muscle relaxation.This is why some strains smell just like certain fruits. Cannabis is like many plants in one in this regard. Some sensitive people like myself get synergistic effects from eating mangos and smoking bud for example. All is synergy. Its like cannabis has condensed all the good stuff in nature into one infinite one.

whoa... interesting tip...

 

[_tessarecting]

Leafly has some good basic info on the science. Steep Hill labs does good work too. We're learning more all the time!

 

[Jellyfish]

Definitely NOT Salvia.

 

[_tessarecting]

Definitely NOT Salvia.

 

[stoned-trout]

its my NOTPOT plant...don't know scientific name...yeehaw..got it from neighbor to clone it ...I wont be smoking it..

 

[_tessarecting]

Japanese Maple?

 

[barnyard]

catnip and passionflower can provide a decent mild high

look up ethnobotany or get a copy of "The Botany and Chemistry of Hallucinogens" by Shultes and Hofmann

 

[Green Squall]

Read this about absinthe a few days ago. Too bad it's been disproved...

"Notions of absinthe's alleged hallucinogenic properties were again fuelled in the 1970s, when a scientific paper suggested that thujone's structural similarity to THC, the active chemical in cannabis, presented the possibility of THC receptor affinity.[78][79] This theory was conclusively disproved in 1999"

 

[_tessarecting]

Thujone basically just allows you to get drunker and not pass out, hence all the hallucinogenic allegations.

If you are a drinker smoke white sage next time you drink for a similar effect. It has more thujone than wormwood. Thujone is slightly neurotoxic where as thc is neuroprotective so that's also a difference.

 

[m314]

There are tons of plants with psychoactive effects. Tea is my second favorite plant. It's mild if you have a tolerance, but a cup of strong green tea feels so nice if you haven't had it in a while.

Coffee, tobacco, kava, kratom, opium poppies, the list goes on and on. Mimosa hostilis root bark contains DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelics. Of all the plants out there, none of them give you the high you get from weed. They're all different.

 

[m314]

Read this about absinthe a few days ago. Too bad it's been disproved...

"Notions of absinthe's alleged hallucinogenic properties were again fuelled in the 1970s, when a scientific paper suggested that thujone's structural similarity to THC, the active chemical in cannabis, presented the possibility of THC receptor affinity.[78][79] This theory was conclusively disproved in 1999"

I've been getting more into absinthe over the last few years. It doesn't feel like a psychedelic drug at all, but it feels different from vodka. More energetic, less sleepy. I used to think alcohol was all the same, but different types of liquor can have different effects.

 

[Green Squall]

I've been getting more into absinthe over the last few years. It doesn't feel like a psychedelic drug at all, but it feels different from vodka. More energetic, less sleepy. I used to think alcohol was all the same, but different types of liquor can have different effects.

Probably because of that tessarecting said- The thujone allows you to drink more without passing out. But the US absinthe has to thujone in it. Damn FDA. You get yours online?

 

[floralheart]

There are tons of plants with psychoactive effects. Tea is my second favorite plant. It's mild if you have a tolerance, but a cup of strong green tea feels so nice if you haven't had it in a while.

Coffee, tobacco, kava, kratom, opium poppies, the list goes on and on. Mimosa hostilis root bark contains DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelics. Of all the plants out there, none of them give you the high you get from weed. They're all different.

This tea has quite a kick to it...

 

[m314]

This tea has quite a kick to it...

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Grandma's Boy was awesome. I hadn't heard of it until a couple years after it came out. I wish they made more movies like that.

If you're making cannabis "tea", use whole milk instead of water. You need some kind of fat to extract the good stuff.

 

[m314]

Probably because of that tessarecting said- The thujone allows you to drink more without passing out. But the US absinthe has to thujone in it. Damn FDA. You get yours online?

I haven't bought it online in a couple years, but the best 2 bottles I've tried came from a web site in France. I can't think of the web site or the brands right now. I must be high or something.

I picked up a bottle of La Fee absinthe at a liquor store last year. It feels different from regular vodka / rum / whiskey too. The taste is amazing if you like that black liquorice flavor. The aftertaste lingers forever with one little sip.

 

[Andyo]

https://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Leonotis_nepetaefolia.shtm l

https://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Leonotis_nepetaefolia.shtm l

I grew it in my garden south east uk ,
I dried and smoked it,found it sedative,
It flowered september .A

 

[floralheart]

I grew it in my garden south east uk ,
I dried and smoked it,found it sedative,
It flowered september .A

I also wonder what's not on erowid

I remember reading this book about how the CIA post WWII sent people all over the world to collect plants and fungus. There has to be some wild chit out there.

 

[N. Accumbens]

Dale Pendell

Dale Pendell

...has some unique books on ethnobotany and shamanism, comparing various psychotropic plants and funghi, yeasts and the such. Vegetales, plant people... Like most ICers.

Cannabis research has been very behind in some ways, it has been shown that the Scythian's smoked Cannabis instead of drinking ethanolic beverages. Probablyto inebriate and become closer to their gods of the time and a magical time it was it seems.

Pendell says all plants have an ally, and that it was the plants whom gave animals fire.

Interesting reading.

Cannabis and the endocannabinoid system. Flowers, trees, funghi. All alike yet each different down to the cultivar. Genetic code, epigenetics aside for now.

Cannabis is unique as known today. Poppies are unique. DMT not unique - everywhere in some quantities. Beer, wine. Grapes, grain. Tabacco or a Cali wild cherry bark or some ergot AUM, A. Hoffmans unique synthesis, LSD.


As far as plants like Cannabis, unique yet soooo variate go, maybe Pendell would say...
Some allies are the loner type, but enjoy a good parley with their main pals, coca, mushrooms, poppy, alcohol.

Oh back in the day (centuries), ppl loved cooking up some super synergistic brews.

Chinese medicine of certain views four as the number of ingredients needed.

Maybe with plants alone an odd number is better. Odd beings, plants, yes they are.

Nacc