Teenagers find alternatives to get high without having to go to drug dealers. The trend of using whippets, sharpies and cold medicine are long gone, instead they use nutmeg, which is a holiday spice.Instead of doing homework or playing a sport, kids reach into their kitchen cabinets and get high. Nutmeg can either be snorted like cocaine or smoked like cigarettes.
This trend has concerned Oklahoma law enforcement when they noticed instructional videos on how to make nutmeg cigarettes.
Nutmeg has a volatile oil that crosses into the central nervous system in which can cause hallucinations. The effects can start within 15-20 minutes and last for several hours depending on the dose. Who needs cocaine or heroin when there is nutmeg?
People are able to get away with this because there is nothing illegal about using nutmeg. What is concerning is what it can lead to.
A couple of months ago, commercials talked about how kids could get high by using prescription and over the counter drugs and within that stores such as CVS and Target card people to make sure they over 18 when purchasing cold medicines.
Since the jig is up, they have found another way to still maintain that hallucinogenic feeling by obtaining a product that is insusceptible, nutmeg.
What's next pencils, hair gel, grass? Where will it stop if these people are using household items?
Overall this is really disgraceful, how is it cool to be high and out of control? There is nothing interesting about being a shell of a body. Perhaps these people need to go to a third world country and see what hardship is really about. Let's see if they would want to reach for that nutmeg again, I think not.
Just because it is not illegal, does not make it okay. Drugs are drugs and unless it is to cure some ailment, it should not be used to escape one's problems. If they have a problem then they need to talk to an adult that they can trust or a counselor, not a holiday spice.
This is not just a problem in Oklahoma, these alternatives to getting high is a serious problem in the United States. Even though these methods are not illegal, serious consequences will occur due to the physical and mental effects.
Soon the government will have to implement more regulations because what was intended for good has been twisted into something bad.
Now that Christmas is upon us with the smells of cinnamon, chocolate and nutmeg, spread the word. By bringing awareness we can save lives and have new legislation implemented to regulate such activities.
For now it is nutmeg but in the future who knows what other innocent household items can be used to bring physical destruction. When it comes to drug attics, it does not just stop with one drug, they keep looking for that high to the point they die whether it is from an drug overdoes, murder or a car accident. If you have or know any impressionable youngsters, take preventative measures and talk to them.
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