From the article.....
"You have to eat a lot of them," he said. "I know it lasts between six and eight hours." A friend of his had done it, he said, but he hasn't.
"I never felt I had enough time to sit there and eat 500 seeds," he explained.
It doesn't seem worth it, but people will do almost anything to get high.
Ban cut flowers! Long-stem ok.
500 seeds. Get a high and your daily intake of roughage.
These kids need jobs.
Tried it once about 35 years ago. No high but plenty of nausea and some vomiting. Not a lot of fun.
Sounds like another crisis. I guess the only thing we can do is make the plant illegal, expand the War on Drugs by millions and start generating junk-science reports. Oh yeah, and these morning glory seeds aren't like those in the 60s - the seeds produced today are WAY more potent. :-)
I'd like to invite the teens to clean up the morning glory seeds on our farm. LOL
The seeds of many species of morning glory contain d-lysergic acid amide, ergoline alkaloids better known as LSA. Seeds of I. violacea and R. corymbosa are used as hallucinogens. They are about 5% to 10% as potent as LSD. To discourage morning glory's use as hallucinogenic drugs, some commercial seed producers have started treating seeds with a chemical that will not wash off. This chemical has been known to cause vomiting, nausea and abdominal pain. Typically some form of a warning or notice is printed on the package if seeds have been treated.
I though the stuff was a weed and I pull it out when I see it. I didn't realize people bought seeds and actually planted the dang stuff.
I knew a couple of guys who tried jimson weed. Boy did they get sick.
"Everything old is new again".
We used to try damn near anything to cop a buzz back in the day. Thankfully, we avoiding huffing paint or sniffing glue. But we'd do stupid stuff like buy a bunch of little bottles of tequila so we could eat a bunch of the tequila worms. We had heard they would cause halucinations. Fact is, you might halucinate, but it is from the tequila not the worm:) I don't regret my mis-spent youth, but I sure am glad that it is well behind me.
I can't believe this is news. Most seed companies started treating Morning Glory seeds 30 years ago.
Now, the latest "craze" is Datura or Angel's Trumpet. I grow this stuff every year because it is a very showy ornamental, especially around dusk. It's also a poison that incidentally causes disordered thinking, visual impairment, and neurological problems.
Whatever happened to taking horse tranks? Kids these days.
Mind-altering drugs are an Intelligence Test. People who take drugs to get high automatically fail the test.
That may sound harsh but it is the reality -- which is what those people are trying to escape anyway.
I loved the reference in the article to a teenager who was wearing all black on a bright, sunny day. Maybe he's not a druggie, just recently moved to Va from New York City. We dress in black all summer long. Don't ask me why. But if I went out on the street in white pants and a pink top people would think I was a tourist.
Even the Post can't talk good English.
Should be: An Hallucinogen
Been there, done that. Better tell the kiddies to wash off the pesticides first.