Pulegone, a natural product isolated and purified from the herbs of Mentha canadensis L., has cytotoxicity followed by regenerative cell proliferation is the MOA for Pulegone-induced urothelial tumors in female rats, induces a verapamil-sensitive psychostimulant effect that appears to independ on the opening of L-type calcium channels, and has negative reinforcing properties and seems to possess anxiolytic-like actions unrelated to the benzodiazepine site of the γ-aminobutyric acid type A (GABAA) receptor.