Bill Oliver wrote:

In article ,
Towse wrote:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N21300506.htm

Reuters AlertNet
"WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Fourteen Ohio teen-agers trying to get a
free 'high' off plants out of their gardens ended up in the emergency
room, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.

"The youngsters evidently thought they could get stoned by eating the
seeds of a local plant called the moonflower but did not realize they
were toxic, the CDC said."



They can.

For a good description, see:

http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=16212


As Robert Beverly noted about soldiers in Jamestown, Virginia who accidentally
ate Datura stramonium in their salad (hence "Jamestown weed" then "jimsonweed"):

And some of them ate plentifully of it, the effect of which was a
very pleasant Comedy; for they turned natural Fools upon it for
several Days. One would blow a Feather in the Air; another would
dart straws at it with much fury; and another stark naked was
sitting up in a Corner, like a Monkey grinning and making Mows at
them; a Fourth would fondly kiss and paw his Companions, and sneer
in their Faces with a Countenance more antik than any in a Dutch
Droll.


From Clinical Toxicology, CJ Polson, 3rd ed.

It's a matter of dosage, I understand. The fine line between just enough
and too much seems to vary from soul to soul and from plant to plant.

Sal
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