If one were to smoke dried catnip, what would be the effects?

Nope.

What do you want to do make out with cats? Ok, aside from the popularity you’d gain from cats, it might have a mild soothing or numbing effect on you. It’s in the Lamiaceae family, or the mint family so you might get nice breath? I imagine it would have relatively the same effects as smoking mint. Mix catnip with tobacco or something else and smoke if you truly feel the need to.

Also it might work at an insect repellent.

Well go ahead roll a joint and light it up! Get your cat to try it first though, I would assume if your cat comes out fine you probably will.
But I don’t know, will your hand burn off it you touch the stove? What really gets me is there are actually people out there willing to disrespect their own bodies so much they will try just about anything. Your life and body are gifts. Why do humans have to be so curious that even if harm comes to them they forget they have people around who love them. Geez I find this generation very annoying. Did you ever watch the show “My Strange Addiction?”. That’s shows how ridiculous people can be. I mean really, let’s see what it’s like to eat glass and bullets, then become so addicted to it we cant stop…WTH. I really don’t get the human species.

It would make you sick.

besides, only pussies smoke catnip

Lol….. Most likely cough up a fur ball! ;-)
all the yacking would send you somewhere I guess… Lol…..

A friend of mine tried it once, years ago. It was part of an experiment on various dried things, including clover and—yes—dried banana peel. Can’t remember if it was the clover or the catnip that didn’t do anything except give her the galloping shits…

Did you watch that cable show last night about catnip? I wondered the same thing.

It tastes good. My pipe mixture is part catnip (the main mint I tend to find around here), part mugwort, and part mullein. It’s supposed to have a mild stimulative effect, but I drink too much coffee to be able to discern whether mild stimulants work.

Oh, goodness, this was one of the many notions that made the rounds in the sixties (remember banana peels, anyone?), when “everybody” wanted to get high on anything they could. (That’s a virtual “everybody” because it just means everybody within a certain category.) Great wave of disappointed moans across the urban youth scene as it came out that the catnip thing simply didn’t work. On people, anyway.

It’s also worth noting that some cats are impervious to catnip; it just doesn’t do a thing for them.

@everephebe

LMAO! Yes indeed, and if I ever find one that’s non-toxic, I will share my rewards with you! : D

@Jeruba

I have had cats which were indifferent to catnip, but my current cat is definitely not one of them! This lil calico female hits all four walls and then climbs them! LOL!

@CaptainHarley, I’ve had both. One cat went so nuts with it that I had to wonder if he was really enjoying it or if it was unkind to put him through that deranged wildness just because we found it so entertaining. It began to seem to me like too much tickling of a little kid—sometimes they laugh because they can’t help it, but it’s actually a kind of pain and they want you to stop.

@jellyfish3232, you are correct. And welcome to fluther.

@Jeruba

I suspect you are correct. I’ve never had a cat go totally deranged on me, but if one did, I like to think that would be its last experience with catnip! : )

If you smoke anything, you could experience an oxygen-deprivation high. I wouldn’t suggest. Most of the comments I found on internet forums seem to believe it does.

It causes stomach ache, headache, and in some cases, vomiting if a human smokes catnip. Not advisable.

Nothing (and this may or may not be from some experience)

I think the main effect is it would piss Spoony THE cat off that I was wasting her perfectly good drug by burning it up in a pipe. Aside from that, smoking old newspapers is bad for you. Resinous plants such as catnip or tobacco are much worse. Humans were not designed to inhale noxious fumes for fun.

Why would anyone In their right mind want to smoke dried catnip? I mean is there a shortage on Mary Jane or something

@milkshake1978 I always pictured myself naming my daughter Mary Joanna and saying it in a Jamaican accent