As a way of getting high, the popularity of nutmeg comes and goes with spikes in the early s as well as the mid 60s. With the blossoming of social media and the popularity of teen dares, nutmeg is on the rise once more. In , there were 67 documented cases of nutmeg exposure reported by the American Association of Poison Control Centers.
The amount of nutmeg kids are ingesting to get high varies from a tablespoon to half of a container. Prisoners and peasants in 12th-century Europe thought it more of a drug than sensory decoration: Realizing its intense physical side effects — which, in addition to the visual hallucinations and difficulty moving properly, can include up to half a day of vomiting, dizziness, nausea, and seizures — they used it as a last-ditch effort to escape the horrors of imprisonment, induce menstruation in women, or in attempts to abort unwanted fetuses.
Despite the horrible hangover, some people were still willing to take it; the alleged French seer Nostradamus, for one, is said to have induced his prophetic visions by ingesting large amounts of nutmeg. Its hallucinogenic potency comes down to the effects of a volatile compound contained within its flesh.
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