The alarm has already been raised in the U.S., especially in one school, where the parents and teachers have discovered that some of the students were going to class with a condiment in their backpacks that they are using to get high, but that at first, when a surprised teacher asked them why they were carrying it in their backpacks, they replied that they were they were going to cooking class.
The mother of one of these teenagers posted on her TikTok profile the story, alerting the rest of the parents, and the video has already gone viral, accumulating more than half a million views in just two days.
Now, in several schools students’ backpacks are being searched to prevent them from getting high on this common product, reports the New York Post.
The condiment in question
The condiment that these young people are getting high on is the nutmeg powder a product that we have in every pantry and that we use regularly in many of the dishes we cook.
According to a medical article published by the Miguel Servet Hospital in Zaragoza, since the Middle Ages there are testimonies of its use as a brain stimulant and, in the sixties, its use spread as a recreational drug. Nowadays, there are many adolescents who are using nutmeg to get some effects similar to marijuana.
Nutmeg falls under substances of abuse with psychomimetic effects (hallucinogens). Within its biochemical composition, the presence of volatile oils derived from benzene as the myristicinelamycin and safrole.
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According to some authors, the toxic effects can be begin to manifest after the ingestion of 5-7 grams of nutmeg powder (a jar of condiment has about 58 grams); however, the most evident symptomatology is observed in those cases in which the ingestion exceeds 20-80 grams of nutmeg powder. Clinical symptomatology appears within hours of ingestion, with the maximum peak at 8-12 hours, and its slow and progressive remission is observed 24-36 hours after ingestion.
Symptoms affect the central and autonomic nervous system and usually consist of anxiety, sensation of imminent death, visual hallucinations with altered perception of reality and colors, psychomotor agitation or convulsions.
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