[patriot08]

It grows wild pretty much everywhere.
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I don’t think the ‘Devil’s Breath’ in the story and Angel Trumpits here could be the same thing.
If you read the story, they had to go to South America to investigate the plant.

[Jeff Chandler]

The Devil's Breath is the concoction containing scopolamine, which is also contained in any number of the solanaceae family, toxic varieties of which grow pretty much everywhere.

Brugmansia is the plant used in Colombia and Datura is the plant supposedly consumed by Carlos Castenda in Mexico. The two are closely related members of the solanaceae family and both are known as Angel's Trumpet.

The Colombians may be misusing it but the reporters could probably have gone just about anywhere to locate a source of scopolamine. I know a couple guys who tried some wild Jimson weed they found around their camp site in Southern California back in the 70s.