There’s a fish you can eat to get high!

There is a fish that people use to get high off the charts!

Sarpa salpa, known commonly as the Salema porgy, is a species of sea bream, recognisable by the golden stripes that run down the length of it's body, and which can cause hallucinations when eaten.

Sarpa salpa was reportedly consumed as a recreational drug during the time of the Roman Empire. The fish became widely known for it's psychoactivity following widely publicized articles in 2006, when two men ingested it at a Mediterranean restaurant and began to perceive many auditory and visual hallucinogenic effects.

These hallucinations, described as frightening, were reported to have occurred minutes after the fish was ingested and had a total duration of 36 hours.