This may sound strange but, I was wondering if there were any experiments with smoking leaves of common, every day trees. Have any such experiments been done, and have the result been published? What would happen, say, if someone smoked maple leaves or oak leaves? What if one smoked poison ivy leaves?
I’m sure some hippies, desperate to get high, tried smoking everything under the sun. I’m just wondering if such experiments ever had published results.
And no, I am not going to try smoking the leaves of the trees on my property and report back here. I’m wondering if it’s already been done.
smoking poison ivy is a very, very, very bad idea. The same toxin which causes the skin to erupt with weeping sores goes up in smoke and does the same thing to the lining of the mouth, throat, lungs, and esophagus. People have died just from inhaling the smoke from poison ivy patches being burned.
Scroll to the bottom for “Intoxicating Smoking Herbs”. I accept no responsibility for what might happen to you in either the short or long term if you actually smoke any of these weeds.
I would also note that I would be suspicious as hell of any claim that smoking something “herbal” on a regular basis as a tobacco substitute is much better for you - it may not have nicotine, but I would guess that many carcinogens lurk in the smoke of any burning plant matter.
