Dangerous New Teen Fad: Cinnamon Challenge

[c.d.]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/02/carmen-ana-rodriguez-principal-on-leave-after-failing-to-stop-dangerous-teen-fad_n_1251215.html

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[Errata]

Ah the always hilarious cinnamon challenge. It shouldn't be nearly as funny as it is. But it is.

[Beowulf]

Years ago I read the biography of Art Pepper (Jazz saxophonist, Time magazine once said he was the greatest alto sax in the world).

He said while he was in rehab he and others would get high on Cinnamon, that taken in large enough doses got you high.

[RivkahChaya]

I'm beginning to think The Huffington Post isn't serious journalism.

[Ally]

Years ago I read the biography of Art Pepper (Jazz saxophonist, Time magazine once said he was the greatest alto sax in the world).

He said while he was in rehab he and others would get high on Cinnamon, that taken in large enough doses got you high.

I thought it was nutmeg that got you high. I didn't know cinnamon did anything.

[Beowulf]

I thought it was nutmeg that got you high. I didn't know cinnamon did anything.

Lol. Have not heard about Nutmeg. I bet Art Pepper had. He claimed any substance taken in great amounts got you high. He even wrote a song called Cinnamon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUy5f5phttw

Funny thing is he was in rehab, Synanon, at the time, but seemed not to to be 'habin too good

[Grimmspendulum]

High off of nutmeg?....something I never would have thought I would learn from casebook.....

[c.d.]

Yeah, I remember reading in "The Autobiography of Malcom X" that nutmeg was a big thing in prison at that time.

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[greeneyes]

Consumption of an entire nutmeg would probably kill you. It is a powerful hallucinogenic and a nutmeg "trip" is rarely a pleasant one.

[Magpie]

High off of nutmeg?....something I never would have thought I would learn from casebook.....

Nutmeg and mace. Very popular with inmates.

However nutmeg is extremely hard on your liver, and requires near-toxic doses to acheive hallucinations.