People use mothballs to get high is it true?!
Question: yeah so i was looking on the dr phil site, and i stumbled across a page that lists household items that get people high, and on the list were mothballs.
what i wanna know, is how the hell can you get high off mothballs?!
[im not gunna do it, but really..its bugging me i wanna know how its possible.]
Answers: yeah so i was looking on the dr phil site, and i stumbled across a page that lists household items that get people high, and on the list were mothballs.
what i wanna know, is how the hell can you get high off mothballs?!
[im not gunna do it, but really..its bugging me i wanna know how its possible.]
mcrxx725,
Wow, this is a first for me to hear such NONSENSE!!! Who can even tolerate the antique smell of mothballs, let alone try to get high on them!!!???? How sad is this!! My gosh, my grandma's bedroom used to reak of the smell of mothballs so I knew she used them in her clothing drawers. For someone to get high on them, they'd have to be plum "Out of their minds!!" My gosh, what do people just go around picking up anything and sniffing it or injecting it these days? I need to know because I have 2 teenagers and if their generation is that stupid, then by golly I'd bettter begin to keep a closer eye on them!!! But, in all reality I have had so many talks with my kids about first time users dieing from drugs, I think my talks have done them a lot of good!! My kids are bright, and responsible and stay active in all of thier schools sports and extra school activities so much I feel there's been something I've either said or done right in thier eyes, to keep them this way. Even my 27 year old daughter is so busy getting degrees and she just recently got her license to sell houses, in Real Estate!! And I just cannot be a more proud mother!! Thank-God above for my kids not doing stupid things as sniffing mothballs!!! This sounds so gross!!! YUKKO!!!
you crush them up and smoke them.
Then you DIE because you are smoking pure poison.
Mothballs will just make you ill and probably cause cancer.
I know people smell them, I just don't know how they get there little legs open. LOL
Yea....my neighbor use to like sniff them or something ...(weirdo)...lol
Maybe it would make you high but it would be a pain in the a** keeping their legs open ;-)
From webmd.com:
July 27, 2006 -- Teens who sniff or chew mothballs to get high may be taking a big health risk.
Abusing the chemical in mothballs can cause mental sluggishness, unsteady walking, and skin rash, warn French doctors who treated a girl hospitalized for the problem in Marseille.
In a letter published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the doctors tell a cautionary tale about twin 18-year-old girls they treated.
The first twin came to a Marseille hospital with several problems. She walked unsteadily, was mentally sluggish, had had a scaly rash that lasted a month, and was retaining urine.
The doctors -- who included Lionel Feuillet, MD, who worked at a different Marseille hospital, the Hpital de la Timone -- ran medical tests on the girl, but couldnt figure out why she was sick.
Then they discovered her twin also had a scaly rash -- although to a lesser degree -- and an unsteady gait. (This twin did not require hospitalization.)
But the family had no history of nerve or skin problems.
Mothball Use Discovered
A few days later, the doctors made a breakthrough.
"We accidentally discovered a bag of mothballs in the first patients hospital room," they write.
"The mothballs contained paradichlorobenzene (PDB) as the only active substance," Feuillet and colleagues continue.
"It turned out that both sisters had been encouraged by classmates to use mothballs as a recreational drug," they add. Blood and urine tests confirmed the diagnosis.
Why was one twin sicker than the other? She had been sniffing mothballs for four to six months and chewing mothballs for two months, while her twin had sniffed mothballs for only a few weeks before the doctors saw her.
The twins recovered after several mothball-free months.
How do you define high?
Yes, some idiots will huff mothballs. They also get lesions on the face and can't walk straight for months. Read the link below. The chemicals in mothballs kill brain cells. Lots of brain cells.
that really more of a fable then truth--the chemical-that one would be after in the mothballs is PDB--it makes one sluggish of speech-and causes dizziness-and red rash in the mouth-staggering--but it would take a lot to get to that point-the lists you -we-read on line--is everything in the house-weather people use it to get high or not
****, I know a lot of people who will try anything. but I've never heard of mothballs.
I think sometimes the media makes up crap like that in order to give people ideas. pretty sick.
I wouldn't put them past it since they love to want to put you debt with the want to buy material possessions.
Example: you need this hot car, this tv, an ipod, a phone.
all unnecessary for life.
if by "high" you mean "altered state of consciousness" then yes, mothballs, and anything else for that matter, can get you high. There's a certain threshold on every chemical that will do nothing, another that will give nutritional value, a third that will cause the mind to perceive the world in a different way, and a fourth that will cause death. It would take a huge amount of water or apple seeds to cause hallucinations or death for example, but if you had enough it would do it. weed would take more than could possibly be smoked by a human to cause death, but there's a point that it will if it was infused into their stoned, sleeping body relentlessly. if you have a tiny bit less than the lethal dose of mothballs, arsenic, or anything else, you'll get "high" from it.
i would definitely not recommend doing mothballs or arsenic though for obvious reasons.