Dude, don't bogart the brug!
My local Fox station tonight had a story about what they claimed to be a growing trend of people
consuming brugmansia/Angel's Trumpet leaves as a drug. Talked to a nursery owner who decided not to sell them because they were too dangerous and told that they were able to buy them elsewhere for under $20.00 (as if that were so scandalous). Must be a slow news week for them. :-) Personally, I think any adult stupid enough to buy and eat a brug diserves to die. |
datura and brugmansia are actually two different genera, though they
look similar, and are often confused. Toad |
In the late summer it is common for a memo to go round the emergency
departments of hospitals concerning the symptoms of Datura poisoning. Teens and those of similar intellect get into the jimson weed which is a native wild Datura. My understanding is it is not such a fun time. I believe Wm Burroughs described it as a "hell ride" YMMV |
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