E10 - Catnip Evergreen
Jan 17, 2025•31 min
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Episode description
When cats roll around in catnip, are they getting high? What about when humans smoke it? And why did people keep getting arrested for using it in New York in the early 1900s?
The purr-fect episode for the cat lover in your life, I trace the long and meandering history of this remarkable herb, as well as its forgotten history as a medical plant (and, potentially, as a human intoxicant)
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