Please answer this its very important! Can you get hurt off of smoking a maple or some kind of leaf?

Question

ok. i know this sounds weird but i smoked a maple or some kind of leaf today ( IT WASNT A TOBACCO LEAF! ) . I DONT SMOKE/DRINK/DO DRUGS OR ANYTHING NEITHER DOES MY FRIENDS!

ok well we were playing truth-or-dare today and i got dared to smoke a leaf. ive heard its kind of healthly to eat leaves but im not sure if thats true. please dont call me a drugatic or anything. please. i kind stand that stuff. please answer this and pleaseeeee dont say anything mean. i already feel kinda bad.

Answer 1

Maple won't kill you, but others will.

Never smoke, eat, or use any plant that you don't know for sure that it's safe. I don't want to see you die or end up on dialysis waiting for a new kidney because you were foolish.

An example is oleander is poisonous. Even eating 1 leaf can kill a horse. I head so many stories of idiots who try to make tea with the flowers or use the sticks for barbecuing hot dogs or some other ignorant thing. They die from not knowing it's highly toxic.

So DON"T smoke things you don't know about!!!. Or I'll tell your mother and she can deal with it. If that threat doesn't work, nothing will.

Obviously, I don't know who you are or who your mom is, but you get the idea. Us old farts want you young people to live long enough to be old farts some day.

Purrs,

The Cat Lady

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Answer 2

The only really bad leaf to smoke is datura or some kinds of fungus. Relax.  

Answer 3

it's really not a good idea to eat or smoke any plant you don't know about since plants have evolved many toxic chemicals to defend themselves from being eaten.

so unless you've smoked a red maple (and you're a horse), you'll probably be ok; oak leaves, maple leaves, beech leaves or red beech leaves are used as tobacco leaf substitutes.

fyi: everything is made of chemicals =P

Answer 4

well smoking anything is bad for your lungs.. one leaf isn't going to give you lung cancer though. you will be fine