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Native Weed Sends Teens to Hospital
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| August 2, 2011
| Marika Lorraine
Posted on 08/02/2011 11:37:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Tuesday morning two young men went to the hospital and one into police custody in Bethany. One of the teens, a 17 year old, is suffering hallucinations so severe, we're told he is trying to smoke his nurse's fingers.
It's all because of a weed native to Oklahoma that's a growing trend among teens.
It has many names like Jimson Weed, Moon Lilly and Thorn Apple.
Officers know it as "Trouble."
Lt. Phillip Wise with the Bethany Police Department said, "We got a call from a concerned parent who said they had to rush their kid to the hospital because he was acting strange."
When officers arrived to the home in Bethany, they found the teen who had been acting strange wasn't the only one who needed their attention.
Wise said, "When we got over here we found another one unconscious inside the house. Come to find out they had been using Jimson Weed."
It's a white flower with prickly seed pods.
The trend is for teenagers to cut the insides out and eat the seeds.
Wise said, "It's bad news."
The result is often dangerous with hallucinogenic side effects and can cause seizures and organ damage.
That's why Bethany Police took 19-year-old Skylar Nigus into custody.
He allegedly supplied the seeds to the other two young men who ended up in the hospital.
Nigus was arrested for possession of marijuana and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Wise said officers will have the young men show where they got the plant and it will be cut down.
He warns parents to talk to their kids about the new drug.
TOPICS: Gardening; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: datura; drugs; idiots; jimsonweed; locoweed
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To: nickcarraway
Were they fans of this group:
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posted on
08/02/2011 11:45:16 PM PDT
by
TheBattman
(They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature...)
To: nickcarraway
Jimson Weed Willie We weed up
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posted on
08/02/2011 11:48:49 PM PDT
by
NoLibZone
(Life as Nancy Pelosi knows & wants it, must end, Life As Nancy Knows it is to raise Debt 10% annualy)
To: nickcarraway
That is worse than kids eating 4-oclocks when I was in high school.
At least that one only made you throw-up for 6 hrs for the trip.
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posted on
08/02/2011 11:53:15 PM PDT
by
dila813
To: nickcarraway
>> suffering hallucinations so severe, we’re told he is trying to smoke his nurse’s ...
I stopped reading right there.
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posted on
08/02/2011 11:54:44 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(May our dreams converge for a free and prosperous nation.)
To: nickcarraway
Whatever you do, DON’T bring this plant inside the house. I was warned by people who know in Arizona that keeping this plant in an unventilated area is tantamount to committing suicide-its toxin is that potent. From time to time, people are drawn to its pleasant odor. Big mistake.
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posted on
08/02/2011 11:56:45 PM PDT
by
tanuki
(O-voters: wanted Uberman, got Underdog....)
To: nickcarraway
It has a deadly nerve toxin in it. They might have mentioned that in the article.
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posted on
08/03/2011 12:07:45 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
(No dark sarcasm in the press room ... Hey!, Barry!, leave them bills alone.)
To: nickcarraway
"... Tuesday morning two young men went to the hospital and one into police custody in Bethany. One of the teens, a 17 year old, is suffering hallucinations so severe, we're told he is trying to smoke his nurse's fingers. It's all because of a weed native to Oklahoma that's a growing trend among teens. It has many names like Jimson Weed, Moon Lilly and Thorn Apple... Officers know it as "Trouble." "... Wednesday, August 3rd. It was hot in Bethany. We were working the day watch out of Narcotics. My partner's Bill Gannon. The boss is Ed Backstrand, chief of detectives. My name's Friday..."
To: tanuki
This is LOCO weed and it grows wild in many places. Tried it once when young and stupid. Quite a story.
To: nickcarraway
It's Datura which is known by many names and different species are found widely throughout the west. It' even sold as a flowering garden plant known as Moon Flower because of its attractive, fragrant flowers.
Best avoid it.
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posted on
08/03/2011 12:26:28 AM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhaul Congress!)
To: nickcarraway
Mesquite beans are also potentially hallucinogenic/deadly.
It depends on the way they are processed.
Thats all I will say. Don’t mess with them.
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posted on
08/03/2011 12:57:28 AM PDT
by
waterhill
(Little 'r' republican: taker of the Founder's 'Red Pill'...www.mikechurch.com)
To: nickcarraway
Mesquite beans are also potentially hallucinogenic/deadly.
It depends on the way they are processed.
Thats all I will say. Don’t mess with them.
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posted on
08/03/2011 12:57:33 AM PDT
by
waterhill
(Little 'r' republican: taker of the Founder's 'Red Pill'...www.mikechurch.com)
To: tanuki
It grows wild all over the place here. My daughter asked me to come see a pretty flower that was growing in her fenced dog yard one day and I said “chop it down”. I doubt the dogs would have eaten it but no need taking a chance.
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posted on
08/03/2011 1:43:39 AM PDT
by
Melinda in TN
(My goal in life is to be the person my dog thinks I am.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
08/03/2011 2:39:24 AM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, A Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: waterhill
To: BIGLOOK
They grow wild all over the place here, I've got one in the back yard that's been there for years. When it blooms you can smell it from across the yard and the honeybee's swarm all over it. Enjoy the big white flowers and enjoy the smell, but leave it at that. When the die back in the winter they form a big tuber underground with the consistency of a hard potato and that's when the native Americans would retrieve them. They're supposed to be more potent at that time.
To: waterhill
Mesquite beans are also potentially hallucinogenic/deadly.
Never heard that before. You won’t find a place any thicker with mesquites than here in the Permian Basin. Right now if it wasn’t for mesquite beans dropping the cows, deer, turkey and quail wouldn’t have a thing to eat.
To: Dusty Road
My yuppie neighbor had a large one flowering in her porch garden box and did not have a clue as to what it was. She had to google the damn thing before whe would believe me.
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posted on
08/03/2011 4:07:04 AM PDT
by
BTCM
(Death and destruction is the only treaty Muslims comprehend.)
To: nickcarraway
Same stuff that Gene Autrey sang about in Back in the Saddle Again, "Where the lonely cattle feed, on the lowly gypsym weed". Locoweed. Does have a pretty flower. I grew up in the Texas Panhandle, where you'd see it a lot. Never had any notion to eat it, though.
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posted on
08/03/2011 4:13:32 AM PDT
by
Spartan79
(I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.)
To: Always Independent
Myself. Didn't help that description of the plant and how to use it was published in the HighTimes encyclopedia.
IIRC, the flower itself could kill a large animal.
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posted on
08/03/2011 4:24:25 AM PDT
by
wolfcreek
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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