Drugs, roast beef sandwiches, and garden shears, oh MY!
 

From The Times-Picayune


3 Kenner teens hospitalized for overdose
Weed used to make hallucinogenic drink
Saturday, May 29, 2004
By Matt Scallan
Kenner bureau

Three Kenner teenagers who drank a cocktail made from a flower with hallucinogenic properties and Kool-Aid were treated for a drug overdose, police said Friday.

The teens, ages 16 to 18, boiled down the mixture of the lemonade drink mix with the "angel's trumpet" flower and drank it Monday at a gathering at a home on Pommard Drive in Kenner, Capt. Steve Caraway said.

The mixture can cause severe hallucinations and convulsions or be fatal, depending on the strength of the mix, Caraway said.

A parent arriving at the home about 5 p.m. found the teens in the early stages of overdose, and one of them was in a coma-like state by the time they arrived at Kenner Regional Medical Center, Caraway said.

All three have been released from the hospital, he said.

"They said they didn't have any money for drugs, so they went down the street and picked these flowers," he said.

"The investigating officers were told by others in the home that they were going to boil several more gallons of this so they could sell it."

Caraway declined to identify the teens, two boys and a girl, or the address of the home, because possession of angel's trumpet is not a crime and there are no charges pending.

Police were called by hospital officials, he said.

Caraway said there are several varieties of the plant, formally known as Datura Stramonium.

Its common names are jimson weed, locoweed and devil's weed; it can cause extremely vivid hallucinations.

"One of the kids climbed up on the roof of the house and was getting ready to jump off. Another one was taking bites out of his arm and offering it to other people in the room. He thought it was a roast beef sandwich," Caraway said.

Kenner police have had some dealings in the past with calls related to the plant, he said. "It happens more in the spring and summer, because that's when the flowers bloom," he said.

The weed has also caused problems for authorities in Europe.

Last spring, an 18-year-old German student cut off his penis and tongue with garden shears after drinking a tea made with the plant.

German officials at the time said it was the latest drug craze to hit their country and described the tea from the plant as extremely dangerous and able to drive people to insane acts.

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Sorry, but....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!:haha:

We treated a guy for jimson weed overdose a couple years ago, fellah from the "nuts and granola" crowd, claimed to be a certified herbalist or somesuch. There were clearly some classes that he failed to pay attention to. I had him sent to the ER and was questioning his wife who was describing his healthful vegan organic lifestyle when she mentioned that he was "trying out something called James' Son Weed ..."

Calling the ER to tell them to treat for datura poisoning probably saved the dumb motherfucker's life.

A species of Datura (or Jimson weed) is native to the American west and can often be seen growing in the Canyon Country of Utah. Any self proclaimed "herbalist" who ingests the stuff doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. Not only can it be lethal, it is NOT a fun high. The effect resembles what one might experience from strichnine poisoning. I have heard it called "widow's weed" because folklore has it that in the old days Hispanic women who wanted to rid themselves of an abusive husband would grind up the seeds and other plant parts and put it in his food.

Really? Cool.


Sidhe

Looks like an edgy version of a morning glory ...

Locoweed is not so common here in the east.

I heard that...

Pretty, aren't they? And very dramatic if you happen to see one growing all by itself out of the deep red rock formations found in Utah, as I have. But for God's sake, don't try to drink a tea made out of it.;)

No, no, by all means, please do.

Read the article again. Look at their motivation.

Yeah, its a stupid motivation. Like I said and like the article implies, its a lousey high. Even if you had no intention of using it yourself and just wanted to sell it, you'd have a very high (LOL) percentage of dissatisfied customers. When they finally got out of the emergency room, some of them would be looking for you with a gun!;)

Whuuut....?:angel:

The last apartment I lived in, my neighbors had a party. They scored an 8 ball, chopped out lines on a glass table top while their guests watched with anticipation.
Hand everyone a straw and yell go.
It was Drano.:(

i don't partake myself, but damn. what kind of rookie do you have to mistake consumable with stuff cut too far with drano? there is a difference to the discerning party-goer.

The asshat went to Chester and bought it on the street. Didn't taste it, just chopped it all up for everyone to dive it.
They all went to the hospital in 5 ambulances.:rolleyes:

Did the arhat who sold them the stuff go to the hospial in 5 parts (Iwish)?

Y'know, I can understand why someone would smoke grass--It mellows you out and makes you giggle...but I've never understood why anyone would want to do something that made them speed...and if you DO want to speed, all you have to do is take three or four vivarin. It's a hell of a lot cheaper, I'd think.


Sidhe

Cocaine binds to the same points as endorphins do, dontcha know?

So does weed, and it doesn't make your hair itch.

Sidhe

because in the beginning cocaine heightens every sensation. most of the folks i know who used to be heavy users started out as a sex "additive" or to level them off when they were to drunk and it just went from there.

I tried some of that white substance a couple of times in college. It gave me a better buzz than caffeine pills, but I couldn't see what all the excitement was about, especially considering the expense. No idea what it costs now a days, but back then it was a pretty pricey substance. Dealers cut it with some kind of baby formula, I believe; not drano (we're rather backward out here in Colorado).

Drugs 'r baaad, mmmkay?

I'm not really up on the price of powder cocaine, but it's fallen out of fashion lately.

Crack goes for about $5-10/bag hereabouts.

5 drug related stories and possible theme songs:

1. Art Linkletter's daughter gets all coked up and decides to try and fly out a 15th story window. I believe the medical term is "street pizza"...

Theme: "Flying High Again" by Ozzy Osbourne (obvious choice)

2. Pittsburgh man smokes up some primo PCP, then gets the brilliant idea to cut off his face and feed it to his dogs. Yum.

Theme: "Fiend Without A Face" by The Misfits

3. Cailfornia - 3 youths go to a campsite, toke up some weed, and fall asleep in the warmth of the fire. The charred bodies are identified by dental records. S'mores, anyone?

Theme: "Sleeping In The Fire" by W.A.S.P.

4. Upstate NY - 45 year old man kills his brother and his own daughter after he discovers them in a "loving embrace". It is later learned that the father had been paying his daughter in cocaine, pot, and booze to sleep with people he owed money to, to "even up" the debt. The brother was "just for fun".

Theme: "My Promiscuous Daughter" by CKY (a.k.a. Camp KillYourself)

5. India - It is an apparently semi-common practice for families to kill children who run away from pre-arranged marriages. This is done to save the family honor. Children as young as 8 have been subjected to this fun way of celebrating.

Theme - "Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter" by Iron Maiden



Letterman's "TOP TEN" list now has a serious rival....... or maybe not......

I have tried the bolivian marching dust a few times.......wasnt hugely impressed ....it was good but it wasnt as good as I anticipated it would be given how excited everybody seems to get around it......I found amphetamines much more fun !

And the attraction of speeding is....well if the drug is right it's a level of extreme euphoric energy that seems to start in your cells and work its way through you in a a shiver of delight....but thats just my opinion *grins* its been a fair few years since I engaged in anything heavier than cannabis and the occasional E

I have some friends who have recently been experimenting with Ketomine(sp) ...apparently when snorted in farily large quantity one "goes through the K-hole" .....my brother did it at a party a few weeks ago and described the effects to me later. Sounded fascinating. He is very into the human brain and how it all works, how it develops and how it can be altered either with substance or hypnotic technique ( he's a trained nlp councillor)so he drew some interesting stuff from his experience. Sounds totally different to any other trip or high I have been through

You really need to find another recreational activity. Take up knitting.

Ah fuck it. It's your life, or what's left of it, and you're not in my jurisdiction.

"Vitamin K" is one of our animal tranquilizer friends ... like PCP and has similarly nasty effects.

Long term methamphetamine use leads to a lot of nasty psych problems including irritability, sleeplessness, paranoia. Oh, and tooth loss. For some reason, not involving bar fights, meth-heads lose their teeth very early on.

From memory it's ketamine I know some guys carry as a high-power intra-muscular local anesthetic for setting bones and and other nasty things in environments where medical care means chanting to the gods and applying leaves.

Crimson Ghost, what does number 5 have to do with drugs?

Ketamine is extremely addictive, and it can kill you. Stick to weed.

Check out information on writer Marcia Moore, who, with her husband in the 70's, did experiments with ketamine in order to further her psychic studies.

They charted the experiments and actually received approval from the government to research ketamine. They called the research "the samhadhi therapy."

She did it daily for 14 months (starting with 50 mg injections), the only human known to ingest ketamine with such regularity. Not to mention the fact that her husband was an anesthesiologist.

She ended up wandering off one night, died of exposure, and they didn't find her until she was skeletonized.


I'd stay away from it if I were you, regardless of what anyone says.


Sidhe

No, please, everyone experiment as much as you can.

More air for me to use productively.

That statement is proof that you've worked psych. :highfive:

I am extremely wary of all that stuff, especially now a days when my brain seems to be tottering along on the brink as it is. I prefer to kill off my few remaining brain cells a little at a time with the occasional glass of wine. Even when I was a kid in the heyday of acid, I never tried the stuff - was always afraid that the trip would become permanent and my passport would expire while I was out there. Saw that happen to more than one person, sad to say. Plus, you never know what you're getting with that damn street stuff. Look at Bruce's drano example.

From what I can figure out, you gotta be pretty fucking high to marry off your kids at the age of 8, or to let families kill kids to save face. But then again, this is coming from a country that lets millions starve to death while worshiping cows. Between starving and worshiping, I say "Fire up the grill!"

I know I'm gonna get ragged on for saying that, but it is my opinion.

BTW, jaguar, it is nice to see that someone else saw that. After I posted it, I realized that it's not too related to the subject, but what the hell, I was drunk when I was typing it.

hey, different strokes for different folks. The Chinese must think we're nuts to have all these tastey dogs running around that we actually feed and keep as pets. Tsk, tsk! What a waste!

From snopes

6 stories and no drugs.

Kitchen window typically means a very determined suicide ... they are typically small and you have to climb over the sink.

More lives are saved in the long run by worshipping those cows instead of eating them.