The latest trend in cheap highs for teens - your kitchen spice rack.
From Denny: The latest idiot "get high" trend among kids is to rummage through the family kitchen spice rack. So, what spices can get you high you ask? As much as I know about forgotten foods like spices and herbs even I didn't ever consider them in this light.
Late night comic Conan O'Brien joked about this disturbing trend among teens: "According to health officials, teenagers have started smoking nutmeg to get high. Is this recession bad or what?"
Nutmeg
Smoking, snorting or ingesting large amounts of nutmeg can give you some serious side effects:
* increased heart rate
* blurred vision
* convulsions
* feels like a bad case of the flu
* delirium
* hallucinations
* vomiting
* irregular heart rhythms
* severe headache
* drowsiness
* coma
The frightening thing is that it takes as long as four to five hours before a user feels the mind-altering effects of nutmeg. Nutmeg is very slow-acting. So, what do they usually do? Yes, you guessed it; after 15 to 20 minutes they decide to ingest even more nutmeg to the point of toxic levels, chasing after that euphoria.
Curious teens keen to experiment are smoking and eating very large amounts of nutmeg in particular. They are seeking that quick high. What they get is a quick trip to the hospital emergency room because of violent convulsions. All it takes is just one tablespoon of nutmeg swirled into a drink to be toxic.
Most cooks use spices sparingly and certainly never considered them as potential drugs to get high. According to Deborah Blum, author of “The Poisoner’s Handbook,” says some spices can definitely be both naughty and nice during this holiday season.
Says Blum: “We tend to think of herbs and spices as wonderfully healthy because they’re natural plant products. But natural doesn’t mean safe and many plants contain toxic compounds, which they evolved to fend off grazing animals and predatory insects. Could you kill someone with a well-spiced holiday cookie? Not likely, you’d have to shovel in so much spice that this would be one inedible treat. But are holiday spices simply benign little flavoring agents? Not entirely.”
She says nutmeg is one of those spices that can bite back when misused.
“Nutmeg has popped into the news recently because teenagers have tried smoking it for its hallucinogenic effects,” she says. “The problem is that these are pretty marginal effects and too much of the compound can make you pretty sick and dizzy. But if you poke around in the spice cabinet, you’ll run across other risky compounds.”
Cinnamon oil
Another spice that can be toxic and is used by teens to get high? Cinnamon. At our house we use cinnamon on our morning oatmeal or in cinnamon-sugar or in baked goods.
Cinnamon oil is what teens are ingesting since the 1990's. The symptoms of cinnamon abused from inhaling or ingesting are:
* nausea
* abdominal pain
* welts on the skin or other irritation
* eye irritation (they got it into their eyes)
* rapid heart beat
* light headedness
* facial flushing
* shortness of breath
Clove oil
Another kitchen cooking spice also the favorite of teens who want to get high? Cloves. Actually, it's clove oil. Some have injected it. What symptoms that caused were acute respiratory distress and non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema which is fluid building up in the lungs so much so you can't breathe. Doctors were able to save this crazy kid who might as well have been labeled a walking Christmas clove ornament.
Vanilla
Did you know that too much vanilla can mess you up too? Twelve ounces of synthetic vanilla extract also contains the dangerous 35 percent ethanol. Ethanol does not react well with the human nervous system when taken in large amounts and can depress it as well as your breathing.
Ingesting too much vanilla bad symptoms are:
* depress the central nervous system
* depress the respiratory system
* flushed skin
* gastrointestinal distress
* hypothermia
* hypotension
Decorative Sprinkles
You have got to be kidding me?! Now it's those cute sugary sprinkles that have issues. Those beautiful Martha Stewart advocated silver dragees, silver balls that look like silver BBs, have a lawsuit against them alleging they are toxic. Bakers have used them for decades in everything from shortbread cookies to gingerbread houses.
Could you poison yourself with too much silver like in these silver dragees?
“I wouldn’t worry,” says Blum. “Too much silver could turn you a lovely silver blue but you’d have to be swallowing those little silver balls by the bucket load. With any of these, you’d have to work very hard at making yourself or anyone sick.”
It doesn't help there are video tutorials on YouTube to encourage this stupid abuse of kitchen spices. If you are a parent, keep tabs on just how much nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves and vanilla are still in the pantry.
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Once you start studying what the Kabbalah has to say about how spiritual principles operate, the stories recounted below will make more sense to you. There are three levels of healing available to us and the healings recounted below are about what comes from the highest level of the superconscious - the soul level. Takes a lot of practice - decades - to achieve this level but it can be done. This is the level of what appears to be spontaneous healing because it happens so quickly.
"Spiritual teachers, mystics, and holy people from all over the world have known for centuries that the Force of the Miraculous likes to accumulate in certain people. No one knows why this happens. When this happens, miracles happen around these people on an astonishingly regular basis.
Sri Matajhi Indira Devi was the wife of the Indian ambassador to England. She was a very wealthy and powerful woman even by American standards. She found however, that strange and mysterious events happened around her with regularity. She saw visions, heard voices, and was carried off into mysterious rapturous experiences for hours at a time. Her family hired the best medical doctors that it could find to help her but her condition only worsened.
One day, she met a Holy Man who explained to her that the Force of the Miraculous had chosen her as a vessel and that she needed to be taught how to use the force to help others. Over time, she left her comfortable life and spent the rest of her life learning to master the power of this force. I met her in August of 1994 in Pune, India.
Among her many miracles, she was able to create a spring of clear drinkable water in the middle of a field that had been previously surveyed as barren. She miraculously healed the bodies of hundreds of natives that had been injured through accident or illness. She produced statues made of solid silver out of thin air.
I was introduced to her through a friend that had been the recipient of one of her miracles. He had been diagnosed with a brain abscess and was given days to live. "Ma", a she is called, healed his lesions in hours with a single touch. History is full of people who have been designated as carriers of the Force of the Miraculous. "Ma" is not the only person that I have personally met who carries this force.
I met a man in Las Vegas who can touch slot machines and ask them to give him money. I have seen him do this, twice. It is how he makes his living. The internet is a wonderful tool. Use it to find people who are reported to have miraculous ability. Doing this has enriched my life immensely.
I have met a man who can talk to the sky and ask for rain anytime he wants it. I have seen him do that. It is a sight to behold. I relay these examples for a reason. In order to make the Force of the Miraculous work for us, it is important for us to educate ourselves as to what it is and how it works in the world."
Kabbalah, miracles, self-healing, healing, Ana Bekoach prayer, Dr. Mitchel Gibson
From Denny: Continuing in the series of his fascinating lecture...
Once you start studying what the Kabbalah has to say about how spiritual principles operate, the stories recounted below will make more sense to you. There are three levels of healing available to us and the healings recounted below are about what comes from the highest level of the superconscious - the soul level. Takes a lot of practice - decades - to achieve this level but it can be done. This is the level of what appears to be spontaneous healing because it happens so quickly.
"Spiritual teachers, mystics, and holy people from all over the world have known for centuries that the Force of the Miraculous likes to accumulate in certain people. No one knows why this happens. When this happens, miracles happen around these people on an astonishingly regular basis.
Sri Matajhi Indira Devi was the wife of the Indian ambassador to England. She was a very wealthy and powerful woman even by American standards. She found however, that strange and mysterious events happened around her with regularity. She saw visions, heard voices, and was carried off into mysterious rapturous experiences for hours at a time. Her family hired the best medical doctors that it could find to help her but her condition only worsened.
One day, she met a Holy Man who explained to her that the Force of the Miraculous had chosen her as a vessel and that she needed to be taught how to use the force to help others. Over time, she left her comfortable life and spent the rest of her life learning to master the power of this force. I met her in August of 1994 in Pune, India.
Among her many miracles, she was able to create a spring of clear drinkable water in the middle of a field that had been previously surveyed as barren. She miraculously healed the bodies of hundreds of natives that had been injured through accident or illness. She produced statues made of solid silver out of thin air.
I was introduced to her through a friend that had been the recipient of one of her miracles. He had been diagnosed with a brain abscess and was given days to live. "Ma", a she is called, healed his lesions in hours with a single touch. History is full of people who have been designated as carriers of the Force of the Miraculous. "Ma" is not the only person that I have personally met who carries this force.
I met a man in Las Vegas who can touch slot machines and ask them to give him money. I have seen him do this, twice. It is how he makes his living. The internet is a wonderful tool. Use it to find people who are reported to have miraculous ability. Doing this has enriched my life immensely.
I have met a man who can talk to the sky and ask for rain anytime he wants it. I have seen him do that. It is a sight to behold. I relay these examples for a reason. In order to make the Force of the Miraculous work for us, it is important for us to educate ourselves as to what it is and how it works in the world."
Kabbalah, Ana Bekoach prayer, miracles, self-healing, energy healing
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Once you start studying what the Kabbalah has to say about how spiritual principles operate, the stories recounted below will make more sense to you. There are three levels of healing available to us and the healings recounted below are about what comes from the highest level of the superconscious - the soul level. Takes a lot of practice - decades - to achieve this level but it can be done. This is the level of what appears to be spontaneous healing because it happens so quickly.
"Spiritual teachers, mystics, and holy people from all over the world have known for centuries that the Force of the Miraculous likes to accumulate in certain people. No one knows why this happens. When this happens, miracles happen around these people on an astonishingly regular basis.
Sri Matajhi Indira Devi was the wife of the Indian ambassador to England. She was a very wealthy and powerful woman even by American standards. She found however, that strange and mysterious events happened around her with regularity. She saw visions, heard voices, and was carried off into mysterious rapturous experiences for hours at a time. Her family hired the best medical doctors that it could find to help her but her condition only worsened.
One day, she met a Holy Man who explained to her that the Force of the Miraculous had chosen her as a vessel and that she needed to be taught how to use the force to help others. Over time, she left her comfortable life and spent the rest of her life learning to master the power of this force. I met her in August of 1994 in Pune, India.
Among her many miracles, she was able to create a spring of clear drinkable water in the middle of a field that had been previously surveyed as barren. She miraculously healed the bodies of hundreds of natives that had been injured through accident or illness. She produced statues made of solid silver out of thin air.
I was introduced to her through a friend that had been the recipient of one of her miracles. He had been diagnosed with a brain abscess and was given days to live. "Ma", a she is called, healed his lesions in hours with a single touch. History is full of people who have been designated as carriers of the Force of the Miraculous. "Ma" is not the only person that I have personally met who carries this force.
I met a man in Las Vegas who can touch slot machines and ask them to give him money. I have seen him do this, twice. It is how he makes his living. The internet is a wonderful tool. Use it to find people who are reported to have miraculous ability. Doing this has enriched my life immensely.
I have met a man who can talk to the sky and ask for rain anytime he wants it. I have seen him do that. It is a sight to behold. I relay these examples for a reason. In order to make the Force of the Miraculous work for us, it is important for us to educate ourselves as to what it is and how it works in the world."
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Take a look at this 1st video and I'll post some more. I usually like to listen to them all the way through to make sure they are authentic, not just a promo to sell you something or a bit ozone flakey in their assumptions. It has to be the real deal for me to post something - and responsible!
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