# Strange question about drugs (this one should work). **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 25, 2002, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-question-about-drugs-this-one-should-work/110818 "2002-05-25T18:30:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-question-about-drugs-this-one-should-work/110818/1 "2002-05-25T18:30:59Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-question-about-drugs-this-one-should-work/110818/2 "2002-05-25T18:58:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-question-about-drugs-this-one-should-work/110818/3 "2002-05-25T19:07:28Z")
Here’s a list to start you off (herbs, not trees, but it doesn’t sound like you’re being fussy): [http://www.totse.com/en/drugs/rare\_and\_exotic\_drugs/herbsmok.html](http://www.totse.com/en/drugs/rare_and_exotic_drugs/herbsmok.html) 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. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-question-about-drugs-this-one-should-work/110818/4 "2002-05-25T21:00:28Z")
Keep in mind, I’m not looking to smoke/take anything. I was just wondering if anyone has smoked tree leaves and gotten stoned. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-question-about-drugs-this-one-should-work/110818/5 "2002-05-25T23:24:53Z")
That’s not a fair question. Marijuana is not a tree. Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![Grievar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/82dd89/32.png) [@Grievar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grievar)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-question-about-drugs-this-one-should-work/110818/6 "2002-05-26T04:16:09Z")
Of course not. Marijuana is a prostitute from cuba! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Grievar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/82dd89/32.png) [@Grievar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grievar)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-question-about-drugs-this-one-should-work/110818/7 "2002-05-26T04:19:34Z")
Also, if you can get blue lotus flowers (expensive, they’re from africa, I think), they are quite legal and contain opioid chemicals.