Teens Turn Legal Plant Into Dangerous Drug

wlky ^ | 11-14-03

[Slicksadick]

Forgot to mention also that this stuff will dialate your eyes beyond belief, I'm talking unable to read newsprint for a week or so. But at least it forces you indoors durring daylight hours.

[Landru]

"Used to read about hard-up hippies smoking Jimson weed now and then way back when...fact is, Mother Nature will kill the stupid. It's her job."

!!!BWAHAAAAA!!!
Nicely put, Bill.

*Darwin*.

...it's a beautiful thing. :o)

[auboy]

A German teenager who was reportedly high on the drug recently mutilated himself by cutting off his penis and his tongue.

And promptly issued a statement, "You listen. I only going to write this once. I will not have sex with those women, Misses and Mrs.

Seriously, there are good plants, and there are bad plants. This is a very, very bad plant. Do not allow it it to enter your body in any form or fashion.

[ZULU]

"Basically, this is just a poison," he said. "It cooks your brains sometimes."

Good. Then distribute it free of charge. It will improve the nation's gene pool.

[from occupied ga]

As I remember from botany class also causes kidney and liver damage. The regular old Jimson weed with the purple flowers does the same thing. Don't know why anyone would willingly ingest this stuff.

[al baby]

I like to smoke crawdads

[al baby]

I like to smoke crawdads

[piasa]

Angel's trumpet is a very close relative of Jimson weed. Flowers look virtually the same, too.

Neither one gives pleasant hallucinations so why anyone would want a buzz off of it I cannot fathom.

[bigfootbob]

" called the Angel Trumpet, Datura or Jimsonweed"

This may sound like I'm nitpicking, but this is $h!tty reporting. Which is it "Angle Trumpet", which is a Datura or Jimsonweed which is a totally different plant that is causing the problem?

Jimsonweed is also called Nightshade, (Solanum dulcamara called Bitter Nightshade and Solanum nigrum called Black Nightshade), is a weed that is probably natural occurring in Missouri. Knuckleheads of all generations have tried getting high on that stuff. My grandpa told me how when he was a teen he saw some of his friends consume some of that stuff after they saw cattle eat it and act crazy. He said it can kill.

[Vigilantcitizen]

"Used to read about hard-up hippies smoking Jimson weed now and then way back when...fact is, Mother Nature will kill the stupid. It's her job."

That's "Quote of the day" material, imo.

[from occupied ga]

Seriously, there are good plants, and there are bad plants.

Plants aren't good or bad any more than rocks or electric drills or guns are good or bad. It's the uses that people make of them that are good or bad.

[Slicksadick]

Don't know why anyone would willingly ingest this stuff.
Primarily used by teens who have no concept of mortality yet. It does have a natural ability to turn people away though. In its raw state, its one of the foulest smelling plants around, imagine 2 week old dirty gym socks.

[from occupied ga]

In its raw state, its one of the foulest smelling plants around

Used to grow in the pasture - even the sheep wouldn't eat it, and it's hard to imagine a dumber animal than a sheep.

[Slicksadick]

I guess flunky teenagers qualify as dumber than sheep. LOL

[auboy]

I did have a bad car once. It was bad, bad, bad.:-)

[ClearCase_guy]

Neither one gives pleasant hallucinations so why anyone would want a buzz off of it I cannot fathom.

I can't explain the guy in Germany, but these latest idiots were from Missouri -- they may have heard that all the hallucinations would be bad, but they ARE from the "show me" state. Now they know.

[omega4412]

Didn't Oliver Sacks have a story about Jimson weed in one of his books? An amateur gardener wanted to make a tomato plant that wasn't chilling-sensitive, so he grafted a tomato onto a Jimson weed rootstock. It worked, sort of -- the plant did fine at low temperatures but the tomatoes did strange things to the gardener's mind.

[auboy]

Although, it was perfectly fine, if you just wanted to look at it and weren't trying to go somewhere.

[RussianConservative]

A German teenager who was reportedly high on the drug recently mutilated himself by cutting off his penis and his tongue

Darwin award.

[commish]

Hmm smoked crawdads?? Interesting, I love em boiled, wonder what they taste like smoked