It's probably one of those things like nutmeg, where you'll throw up before you can ingest enough to have a perceivable effect.

perhaps these weak psychoactives were discovered by half starving, bored sailors on long voyages, or prisoners almost at the point of hallucination anyway, and being in such a sensitive condition, it took very little to tip them over some edge in their minds, whereas the average well fed westerner now would have to eat so much of it to affect himself, it would indeed be quite toxic. nutmeg does contain traces ofmyristicin and safrole, and can be a precursor to MDMA though i think they're so small as to be negligible.

certainly the aroma of fresh grated nutmeg over mashed potatoes, or with baked apples is intoxicating.

cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla and cloves are all heavenly flavours, combining really well.

where's the line between getting pleasured by something and getting high from it?

precisely, mind... none of yer vagueries

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~