• quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 hours ago

    Datura stramonium. It’s relatively common where I live. I smoked its seeds a couple of times, it was weird and unpleasant just enough to not want to keep experimenting. Would not recommend.

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      If that’s datura, which it looks to me like it is, you don’t want any part of it. It’s pretty much universally regarded as giving one of the worst, most unpleasant trips imaginable, and its effects last at least 24-48 hours or even longer. It’s also just outright toxic depending on the dosage. It’s just not worth it.

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        11 hours ago

        I always thought “Engelstrompete” (Brugmansia) gives you the worst.

        In my teenage years some mutual friends tried it. One ran off for a half a day into the forrest with a Garbage Bin Lid and a Wooden Spoon “to fight the dragon”. He came back with a scratched face and body but was " sucessful" and happy(?) about somehow.

        Still kinda funny though

        On the other hand I heard stories like hell on earth. Fe something like its Raining Fire and all the other people are zombies. For 3-4 days. And he thought it was all real.

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        Yeah, I’ve seen posts on Reddit that went like “I thought surely datura can’t be that bad… I can now report that it’s absolute garbage of a drug and the worst experience I’ve had in my life”.

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        21 hours ago

        …so you know those recipes for homemade pepper spray? Would it be possible to make datura spray? Asking for a friend…

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        23 hours ago

        It’s worth it to be sure to make no mistake

        All species of Datura are extremely poisonous and psychoactive, especially their seeds and flowers, which can cause respiratory depression, arrhythmias, fever, delirium, hallucinations, anticholinergic toxidrome, psychosis, and death, if taken internally.[

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      19 hours ago

      I was surprised to see one growing unbothered on a sidewalk in Réunion island. I immediately recognized it cause I had looked it up days before after reading about it in the book Earth’s Children. I checked and it seemed to be Datura Metel. Afaik not the best pick if you want to talk to your DNA memory ancestors, Altair-style.