nettle

[bomber]

I was reading an article about nettle being illegal in France, and so is talking about it's healing(?) effects. Is that true? Why would that be, they consider it a drug or anything? Never used nettle for anything, but Im almost sure I would know about that if it had any psychoactive effects. Does it?
Im not intresting in trying it, just curious.

 

[snazzy_sn]

go without meat for like a week and try it.

 

[Pill2Chill]

I was reading an article about nettle being illegal in France, and so is talking about it's healing(?) effects. Is that true? Why would that be, they consider it a drug or anything? Never used nettle for anything, but Im almost sure I would know about that if it had any psychoactive effects. Does it?
Im not intresting in trying it, just curious.

Don't you mean wild lettuce? There is a wild lettuce that produces opiate-like effects, and I believe someone told me it's illegal in one of my neighbouring countries (France is one of those), but I'm not 100% sure about it being illegal there. I'm sure this lettuce exists though. I don't know of any nettle with psychoactive effects. I know nettles are good against rheumatism though... :D

 

[bomber]

^ Νο, nettles. I mean those hated plants that grow everywere and hurt like shit if you touch them. I don't know about any psychoactive effects of nettle either, just read about it's prohibition and got curious.
I have eaten letuce some times and never felt any opiate like effects.

 

[bomber]

go without meat for like a week and try it.

I can't go with out meat for a weak.

 

[spacejunk]

Nettles are used for medicinal properties in traditional and herbal medicine, but i don't think they have any psychoactive properties whatsoever.
It may be illegal for being an invasive weed that is a skin irritant - as opposed to being banned as a drug, but that's just a guess.
There are plants that are banned for cultivation in various parts of the world for reasons other than them being intoxicants.

 

[Pill2Chill]

I have eaten letuce some times and never felt any opiate like effects.

Obviously it's not the lettuce that is commonly used in meals.

It's in the same family(?) as that lettuce, the specific 'strain' I mean is called 'wild lettuce' and isn't cultivated or anything since it's not used for anything (so not in meals either). But it's supposed to have some opiate-like effects. I never bothered researching the stuff very thoroughly though, but I'm almost sure this 'wild lettuce' that I mean has some psychoactive effects. How strong they are I do not know, if they were worthwhile I'm sure the plant would be more commonly known amongst drug(opiate especially)-users. I imagine kratom being like a horse tranquilizer next to this stuff, I could be wrong, but I still cba to research it any further.

Yeah I know what you mean by nettles, just figured you might've been mistaken since I never heard of psychoactive nettles either, just the lettuce thing. But I guess you're not, in which case I'm not gonna be much help since I've never heard of such a thing either (and frankly I would be surprised if they are illegal in France, the only 'medical' application they have is to combat rheumatism AFAIK).

 

[spacejunk]

There are herb/ethnobotanical shops here in australia that sell "wild lettuce" of the "lettuce opium" fame.
I never got anything from it, but i used to take a lot of real opium.
I've heard of peoplle making extracts and stuff, but i never bothered to try that.

Nettles, on the other hand, i've seen for sale in mediterranean bulk spice type stores. It is used as a tea, i believe.
Apprently when dried, nettles no longer sting, which would explain why it ok to consume in preparations like that.

The idea of nettles being illegal is interesting though.
I just did a quick search online, and from what i can gather, the only legality issues surrounding nettles relate to the picking of wildflowers, or otherwise foraging for edible plants on public lands.

This article mentions it - and also the way people use nettles in cooking. It is US-centric, but another article i saw mentioned that foraging for wild-growing plants can be considered illegal (in the UK) because of laws enacted for conservation reasons (basically to stop people destroying wildflowers growing on public lands). But i don't think possession of nettles is illegal for any other reason.

 

[belligerent drunk]

Obviously it's not the lettuce that is commonly used in meals.

It's in the same family(?) as that lettuce, the specific 'strain' I mean is called 'wild lettuce' and isn't cultivated or anything since it's not used for anything (so not in meals either). But it's supposed to have some opiate-like effects. I never bothered researching the stuff very thoroughly though, but I'm almost sure this 'wild lettuce' that I mean has some psychoactive effects. How strong they are I do not know, if they were worthwhile I'm sure the plant would be more commonly known amongst drug(opiate especially)-users. I imagine kratom being like a horse tranquilizer next to this stuff, I could be wrong, but I still cba to research it any further.

Yeah I know what you mean by nettles, just figured you might've been mistaken since I never heard of psychoactive nettles either, just the lettuce thing. But I guess you're not, in which case I'm not gonna be much help since I've never heard of such a thing either (and frankly I would be surprised if they are illegal in France, the only 'medical' application they have is to combat rheumatism AFAIK).

I tried this wild lettuce. Both in resin (similar to opium) and extract form. The resin did jack shit, but the extract did seem to produce something. Very, very mild though. Definitely way weaker than kratom.