Hydrangea The Next Cannabis?
By Anna
@LadyDuck (502187)
Italy
January 28, 2016 9:12am CST
Looking to the photos of my flowers, I noticed a nice one of my hydrangea.
This flower reminds me the story of the "Hortensia Gang", a group of young people stealing hydrangea flowers in France.
The flowers are very common and have no value, the reason behind the theft is that they "smoke" the leaves them mixed with tobacco.
It seems that the hydrangea flowers, when smoked, give a euphoric feeling and could even produce a hallucinogenic effect, the same effect of the marijuana.
People are crazy, the hydrangea contains a substance which is toxic.
Heavy smokers risk poisoning, because the toxins can build up very quickly.
Keep an eye on your flowers, if you have hydrangea plants.
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38 responses
@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
28 Jan 16
Wow, I have a hydrangea in my yard. I have never heard of people smoking the leaves.
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@dpk262006 (58679)
• Delhi, India
29 Jan 16
It is a nice pink flower, which you have uploaded.
It makes an interesting reading about hydrangea and its leaves.
We mostly find blue version of this plant here and it survives in winter and spring of Delhi.
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@dpk262006 (58679)
• Delhi, India
29 Jan 16
@LadyDuck - I have no idea about iron content in the soil. But you may be right.
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@LadyDuck (502187)
• Italy
29 Jan 16
@dpk262006 I know that if we want to turn the white and pink hydrangeas to blue, we bury iron nails in the ground, near the roots.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
29 Jan 16
going to say. that sounds really dangerous
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@LadyDuck (502187)
• Italy
29 Jan 16
@Jessicalynnt I agree, at least they stop to find inexpensive alternatives that are dangerous for their health.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
29 Jan 16
@LadyDuck honestly stuff like this makes me think they should just legalize and regulate pot, people are looking for this kind of thing anyways, and at least that one has proven to be, on the whole, harmless.
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@Poppylicious (11134)
• United Kingdom
28 Jan 16
Never heard of this. Some people will - quite literally - smoke anything.
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@LadyDuck (502187)
• Italy
28 Jan 16
@Likhodobus Oh my, this sounds pretty disgusting.
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
29 Jan 16
I didn't see your comment before I posted mine. I said almost the exact same thing as you! haha
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@jillybean1222 (6406)
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28 Jan 16
yikes. i had no idea. problem is, someone might hear about the euphoria and not the toxicity.
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@jillybean1222 (6406)
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28 Jan 16
@LadyDuck i think a lot of times it is kids or young adults who don't always think about the long term effects of things. though i never did anything this crazy, i did do a lot of other stuff
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
28 Jan 16
I didn't know that, how interesting. We don't have any of those flowers but before my father in law passed away he had tons of them in his gardens.
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@LadyDuck (502187)
• Italy
28 Jan 16
@fishtiger58 The flowers in full bloom are very large. My grandmother had many plants, thew were 5 feet tall.
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
28 Jan 16
@LadyDuck The ones my father in law had were huge. The flower was bigger than my hand. He had white ones and purple ones, if my memory serves me correctly.
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@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
29 Jan 16
Who knew? I'll be looking at the Hydrangea flower with a different view now- how weird. It is one of my most favourite flowers.
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@LadyDuck (502187)
• Italy
29 Jan 16
@MarymargII My grandmother had blue hydrangeas, I prefer the pink color, to make them turn blue it is enough to put near the roots some pieces of irons, nails are enough. Those plants like shaded and humid areas, never full sun.
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@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
29 Jan 16
@LadyDuck Have you seen the blue ones? They are quite breathtaking when they grown in a big bush. I used to have one where we lived by a lake but it didn't bloom well and we thought it wasn't getting too much sun at all. Do they need full sun or at least partial sun?
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
29 Jan 16
/we ha ve hydrangeas here in Southern California too I no ticed some kids picking u p blooms bu t had no ideas of why excetpt I
thought they wanted flowers to give to their mom. hope they were no going to smoke them thats so nuts to take poisons into y our b ody on purpose.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
29 Jan 16
I have never seen this colour before.
That is news really. These people must be trying out every leaf, every plant, every flower under the sun to give them that feeling they are searching for 
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