Catnip (for cats)

[K12]

So I give my cat catnip last night and it eats it, rolls around in it, starts chasing its tail and grabs the bag of nip and runs away with it. WTF? Does anyone know how this stuff makes the animal feel? My cat's pupils were totally dialated. It was high as fuck. I'm wondering what drug humans would take to feel like the cat feels. I'm guessin CoKa.

 

[Violenza666]

LOL @ takes the bag and runs away with it!! HAAHAHAHA

 

[Feste]

I'm guessin CoKa.

Why do you think cocaine? They seem to be pretty stoned on it to me & they chase invisible prey around, I would have thought something slightly psychedelic if anything.

 

[Albion]

I always thought it was like cat MDMA. They I'd certainly say they were rolling hard. Literally.

 

[glenjih]

check it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Xrcp6k8VE

 

[K'd-OUT-in-AZ]

I had a cat once, it loved its damn catnip, I had toys that were stitched with catnip in it so it would jump and do all sort of tricks while playing with that stuff. Waging its tail and shit. I'd have to say it acted more like it was on cocaine rather than a psychedelic to be honest. It doesn't last too long and the dilated eyes make sense. They get bored with it just like I would with cocaine.

 

[fryingsquirrel]

IDK, a plant that did to people what catnip does to cats without even fucking needing to injest it would be wild.

 

[t.ska]

from my understanding cats smelling it causes a rush in the animal, and eating causes a more stoned effect.

 

[psychomimetic]

I knew someone who made a concentrated extract of catnip once and gave it to his cat and the cat apparently got really high and then ran headfirst into a wall and generally ran around being crazy. I wasn't there to see it but I kinda wish I had been.

Does anyone know what the active chemical in catnip is? If we knew how it interacted with cat's brains then we might know what human drug it was comparable to.

 

[Feste]

Apparently catnip does affect a some humans.

This is the stuff giving us cracked out kittens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepetalactone

 

[psychomimetic]

I smoked catnip when I was in middle school, it seemed to have a very mild effect kinda similar to weed, but not even remotly close to as good and I had to smoke around a handful of it to feel anything.

From http://chemistry.about.com/od/medicalhealth/a/Nepetalactone-Chemistry.htm -
"The feline receptor for nepetalactone is in the vomeronasal organ, located above the feline palate. The location of the vomeronasal organ may explain why cats do not react from eating gelatin-enclosed capsules of catnip. Nepetalactone must be inhaled for it to reach the receptors in the vomeronasal organ. In cats, the effects of nepetalactone can be moderated by several drugs acting upon the central and peripheral nervous system, and by several environmental, physiological, and psychological factors. The specific mechanism governing these behaviors has not been described."

 

[kunmo]

could a person smoke catnip and get mild effects? Ive heard they make catnip tea and it works so im wondering ab out rolling a J of nip lolol

 

[Cane2theLeft]

Its been used medicinally historically but produces very little effect and is not really recreational so discussion doesn't really belong here.