lol I don't know about this one. Vice reporters are often a bit naive at times...

Still this was very well Directed. Had great atmosphere and pacing. Very good.

"Scopolamine has been used in the past to treat addiction to drugs such as heroin and cocaine. The patient was given frequent doses of scopolamine until they were delirious. This treatment was maintained for 2 to 3 days after which they were treated with pilocarpine. After recovering from this they were said to have lost the acute craving to the drug to which they were addicted."


hmm sounds like ibogaine treatment .. and LSD works to treat alcoholism ... shake that brain up and see where the chips resettle .. electroshock minus the electro

"While it is occasionally used recreationally for its hallucinogenic properties, the experiences are often extremely mentally and physically unpleasant, and frequently physically dangerous; so repeated use is rare"

This exists all over Australia.
People use it for it's hallucinogenic effects.
I've never heard of refining it into a power though.
I believe the popular way is to twist and compress the flowers in a tea towel and suck on the tea towel to get the flower sap (for want of a better word).

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Troopers Be Trippin

Very well stated. The devil's bell (which it's called in Ecuador and which name I like more than the others) has strong mythology about it, but it is apparently so difficult to extract the Datura from it, that most people I talked to about it just sort of laughed me off. I've spent more than two months traveling in both Ecuador and Colombia, six of those weeks studying with a leading northern Andean ethnographer. When you're on the road, it's a lot of fun to talk about these kinds of extreme phenomena, but for the most part, it's touristy b.s. The plant is much more famous for the hallucinogenic tea that can be made from the flowers themselves, which is also fatal if prepared incorrectly. Btw, Datura is the same compound that produces the infamous Vodou zombies in Haiti, made famous by Harvard ethnobotanist Wade Davis's "The Serpent and the Rainbow."

Vice loves to sensationalize this kind of thing, and I'm frankly a little annoyed at the characterization of the current political atmosphere in Colombia. Even the U.S. State Department's travel.state.gov, which is notoriously over-sensitive, has only qualified warnings about the dangers of traveling in rural areas. Colombia is a lot safer than the introduction to this story has painted it. Total disservice to the country and culture that gave this journalist his story. But Vice likes to dirty it up to sell mags to hipsters.

Still, totally entertaining and somewhat informative. Nice find.>> ^legacy0100:

lol I don't know about this one. Vice reporters are often a bit naive at times...
Still this was very well Directed. Had great atmosphere and pacing. Very good.

I read about this years ago.

These flowers grow rather prevalently throughout San Francisco and surrounding areas...

I am prescribed Scopolomine patches which you wear behind your ear.

for motion sickness or I take it cause I am on high doses of oxycontin as well as 24/7 opiate patch called Fentanyl

and scopolomine patches reduces nausea and dizziness associated with high doses of opiates

works great

*Datura

Crazy that's all just Crazy!

VICE videos are usually pretty good, they go places nobody else would ever want to. Their pieces on Liberia and the people that live in the sewers of Bogotá are amazing.

But also check out their bit on the Lost Aryans of Paraguay, it's noteworthy for just how bad it is. It should be used as a cautionary piece for aspiring journalists, on what not to do.

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