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To: fruser1

Doesn’t locoweed have this drug? It’s the plants’ natural insecticide.


22 posted on 06/29/2025 4:24:56 PM PDT by packagingguy
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At the state school I was at in 1978 someone ran across an area where Jimson weeds were ripening just off the campus. They emit a unique odor all their own that sticks in olfactory memory.

JimsonWeed

Pretty soon kids all over school were taking the little seeds in varying doses, resulting in a wide range of effects. I visited one friend while he was in the guard station's jail cell.

He was caught running around a parking lot, arms wide thinking he was an airplane. Apparently clothes are optional for human airplanes. During my visit he kept looking to the right of me with intense interest. "What's going on?", I asked.

"That tiny motocross race going up the wall there. The red bike's in the lead."

Fortunately the authorities found the patch and that was that, but it was easy to see who was under it's influence during classes. Jimson weed causes a temporary far-sightedness so kids were holding books as far away as possible trying to read them, looking like young frustrated geriatrics.

29 posted on 06/29/2025 7:27:17 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (We can never stop failing for the minute we do, we fail.)
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