That depends on how it is used. Smoking raw and untreated leaves provides a very minor and brief high. A tea (the traditional technique), or treated/fortified l

That depends on how it is used. Smoking raw and untreated leaves provides a very minor and brief high. A tea (the traditional technique), or treated/fortified leaves, is where it becomes potent. The parent commenter likely used fortified leaves given that they had such a distressful experience.