Household Spice or Gateway Drug?

With kids constantly exploring and finding new ways to get high, parents need to keep another experimental supplement on their radar… Nutmeg.  According to ABC News (link to nutmeg story), this spice that is used in various cooked dishes can also be used as a hallucinogenic drug by kids.

When nutmeg is taken in large doses, it can cause one to hallucinate about 30 min. to an hour after consumption. The time elapse between use and the high can be deadly, because kids may overdose on nutmeg thinking they just didn’t use enough of the substance.

Short-term effects of nutmeg are fever, palpitations, nausea, convulsions, insomnia, body pains, and more.  Some long-term effects could be cancer (nutmeg contains safrole, which is a cancer causing compound), and liver problems.