# Can a person get high off catnip?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 30, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-get-high-off-catnip/310479 "2005-06-30T05:11:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-get-high-off-catnip/310479/21 "2013-03-23T04:42:33Z")

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No way man.

ETA: Darn, beaten to it. ☹

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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-get-high-off-catnip/310479/22 "2013-03-23T05:30:17Z")

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> [@Uncertain](#):
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> How about lions and tigers?

Smoked, or brewed into tea, or baked into brownies, there’s no better high than lions and tigers, unless maybe a leopard or panther. You have to catch them first, though.

ETA: Try hyenas sometime.

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**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-get-high-off-catnip/310479/23 "2013-03-23T05:34:57Z")

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> [@Ambivalid](#):
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> No way man.
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> ETA: Darn, beaten to it. ☹

…By about eight years.

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