Without real facts its hard to say. All we have is a whole lot of rumors from a whole lot of sources and most are not relaible. fwiw
Posted 5 July on SM. Sorry this person is shouting. Not certain if this is fact. Just posting what I read FYI to travellers:
USE OF BURUNDANGA, KNOWN AS "ZOMBIE DUST", CONTINUES TO INCREASE THROUGHOUT CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA. BURUNDANGA IS A CHEMICAL COCKTAIL OF SCOPOLAMINE (C17H21NO4), TRANQUILIZERS AND OTHER DRUGS PRIMARILY USED TO INCAPACITATE UNWARY VICTIMS. BURUNDANGA IS INDIGENOUS TO COLOMBIA, BUT ITS USE IS WIDESPREAD ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND MAY BE IN USE IN OTHER FOREIGN LOCATIONS.
AS OF 13 FEB 00, COLOMBIA MEDICAL OFFICIALS REPORT AN AVERAGE OF 1000 CASES OF EXPOSURE TO "ZOMBIE DUST" PER MONTH. ACTUAL INCIDENTS MAY BE HIGHER THAN REPORTS BASED ON HOSPITAL INTAKE RECORDS.
ACTIVE CHEMICAL INGREDIENT IN "ZOMBIE DUST" IS A DERIVATIVE OF SCOPOLAMINE, FOUND IN A PLANT OF THE NIGHTSHADE SPECIES AND KNOWN LOCALLY AS "BORRACHERA" (DRUNKEN BINGE). THE PLANT NORMALLY GROWS IN THE HIGH ANDES, BUT CAN ALSO BE FOUND IN LOCAL PARKS IN BOGOTA.
VICTIMS OF "ZOMBIE DUST" ARE RENDERED HELPLESS IN A TRANCE-LIKE STATE, AWAKE AND COMMUNICATIVE, BUT POWERLESS TO RESIST ORDERS. THE DRUG MAY CAUSE EXTREME DISORIENTATION, UNCONSCIOUSNESS AND SERIOUS MEDICAL PROBLEMS. VICTIMS OFTEN DO NOT RECALL EVENTS.
"ZOMBIE DUST" IS SURREPTICIOUSLY ADMINISTERED IN DRINKS IN BARS, CIGARETTES AND GUM IN TAXIS, IN FOOD AND IN POWDER FORM DUSTED ONTO VICTIMS' SKIN. HOUSEWIVES AND BUSINESSMEN HAVE REPORTED FALLING VICTIM TO "ZOMBIE DUST" APPLIED BY CRIMINALS POSING AS DOOR-TO-DOOR SALESMEN INVITING UNWARY SUBJECTS TO SAMPLE PERFUMES AND OTHER PRODUCTS WHICH
SECRETLY CONTAIN THE DRUG MIXED IN GASEOUS FORM.
VICTIMS HAVE ALSO REPORTED ATTACKERS APPROACHING THEM IN RESTROOMS AND BLOWING THE POWDER ONTO THEIR FACES. WOMEN IN BARS AND PROSTITUTES HAVE APPLIED THE DRUG TO THE DRINKS OF VICTIMS AND INTRODUCED IT THROUGH OTHER
METHODS.