Since it’s green and leafy, most people seem to associate catnip with marijuana. However, when I feed some to my cat he runs around in circles, rolls on the floor, and licks himself in odd places, rather than, say, raiding the fridge and camping out in front of the TV. So, my question is, what drug has the closest effect on humans to what catnip does to cats? Is it more like coke? Or heroin? Or just good ol’ fashioned booze?
PCP, Angel Dust?
In its natural form, cocaine is green and leafy, too. It also matches the hyperkinetic effects of catnip more closely than marijuana.
Hmm… I’m gonna go with napalm here.
Not really a drug, but I imagine it would produce the effects you describe.
Oh boy! perfect timing for a story…
Never give your cat marijuana in place of catnip. I am not talking about blowing pot smoke in its mouth, but the actualy feeding it the weed itself.
My son - back when he was in college - fed our family cat ‘nugget’ some marijuana. The cat reacted very much like nayone lese would I guess, it became very lethargic and basically passed out.
My son being the middle child, could not pull too much over my wife and I. We had a very rambunctious teenage girl before him to show us all the tricks.
I came home from work and noticed the cat on the balcony next to my son’s door. It was not moving, and appeared dead. So I went to pet the animal and there was no response from this poor stoned tabby… So I went and got my wife, and she was devastated. She and I deliberated for quite some time to come up with what to do with the dead cat.
I changed my clothes and grabbed my shovel and we headed out back.
Minutes later a very red eyed som walks up and says, “Whad are you two up to?” Noticing the cat and the two foot hole in the ground he freaked out and said, “NO NO the cats not dead…its a little stoned…is all”
A small smile crested my face yet my wife freaked out!!! And right around the time my wife was about to go up to his room - above the garage - the kitty started to move a little bit… Then a little more and so on and so forth. The cat was not dead, but definitely in a comatos state. …
So be carefull
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GRRR… giving drugs to cats is wrong. I hate people who do this - no offense Coda, I’m sure your son is a wonderful person otherwise. It’s not particularly good for people to be doing drugs, but giving them to a CAT?
My friends were in my apartment some years ago, and I had to run out for a bit. I came back, and the entire place REEKED of pot, which made me mad enough. I don’t think it’s terribly polite to just start inhaling illegal drugs in a fairly obvious manner in somebody’s apartment without asking permission, but then I saw my cat… the poor guy was stoned out of his mind. I swear I was on the verge of a murderous rage.
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Yeah, bad plan to actually feed a cat pot or to force it to inhale smoke. He’s only like 5% of your body weight…imagine eating a nugget the size of your head! They don’t really always want to be stoned and find the smoke sort of offensive most of the time. If the cat sits there after time and lets you blow smoke at him thats fine, but don’t force it. He’ll tell you what he likes with his behavior.
The catnip probably doesn’t have that close an analogue for humans. Most sources agree that it is essentially harmless to the cat - if you give it catnip too often, all that happens is that it stops having any effect. Most of the human drugs one might think of comparing it to aren’t that harmless.
That said, it seems to be a moderate stimulant. Probably not as potent as cocaine. Might I suggest:
khat?
In case you want to follow up on it, a blurb on nepetalactone, the active ingredient in catnip:
I certainly hope that was not a dig on the name of our cat? It may be the slang you utilize for refering to a bud of good kind weed, but in our house it is the name of our cat…Nugget.