Cannabis is gradually getting more accepted by people, and in some areas, you might even find stores that sell this hallucinogen completely legal. Since cannabis is getting more and more accepted, it started being used by more and more people. And some of those people might have pets. So a lot of people might start wondering if the pets will be affected. So I decided to write this article to answer this question.
Can turtles get high? Yes, turtles can get high. Scientists have discovered cannabinoids receptors inside turtles’ bodies, which allow them to be affected by cannabis, as well as other similar hallucinogens.
So turtles can get high, and some turtles get high every day on their own. But before we look at those turtles, let’s take a look at how turtles are affected by cannabis, and what other hallucinogens they can use.
What Can Turtles Use to Get High
Besides the obvious cannabis, turtles can get high using almost all the same natural hallucinogens that humans use. There have been a lot of studies on how animals are affected by hallucinogens, and most studies have shown that no animal in the study had been affected in the long run by the hallucinogens. But the same thing can’t be said about synthetic hallucinogens.
At the moment there are very few tests made on animals, so most of this data from the tests I mentioned earlier is not quite current, but it can’t be considered outdated.
Now that we’ve covered how turtles can get high, let’s see how they are affected by hallucinogens.
How Turtles Are Affected by Hallucinogens
While turtles are affected by hallucinogens, the effects are not quite that visible. In most cases, they are not visible at all. You won’t see a turtle walking in circles, jumping backward, or anything strange.
If you are really familiar with the behavior of your turtle you might be able to see small subtle differences, but in most cases, you won’t see any difference.
But just like people, every turtle is different. So there might be some turtles who are more sensitive to hallucinogens, and that might start acting out of character.
The Turtle That Gets High Everyday
The Green Sea Turtles are some of the very few animals in the world that are able to eat the poisonous jellyfishes that live in the ocean.
Jellyfishes use their tentacles to sting their opponent and to infect them with venom. On their tentacles, most jellyfishes have something called cnidocytes, which are responsible for the stinging, and the sensation that they leave.
Turtles are reptiles, and like all reptiles, they have scales on their skin. Those scales cannot be penetrated by the cnidocytes of the jellyfish. Do jellyfishes have no way of defending themselves, except for the huge quantity of venom that they store in their bodies?
If an animal manages to escape the tentacles of the jellyfish it will have to deal with the aftereffect of eating all the venom that it’s stored inside the jellyfish.
Fortunately for turtles, their stomach is more than prepared for this. Their stomachs are able to transform the harmful poison into something more pleasant that can be described as the same sensation people feel when they get high.
Green Sea turtles are some of the biggest consumers of jellyfishes in the ocean, and they usually manage to eat quite a few each day. So we can say that green sea turtles manage to get high every day.
Conclusion
In conclusion, turtles can get high, and some of them actually do it on their own every day. Overall turtles are not affected in any bad way by natural hallucinogens, so getting high for them it’s not really a problem.
If you have any questions about high turtles or turtles in general you can always leave them in the comment section and I will do my best to answer them as soon as possible.
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