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[-] jedibob5@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 25 points 2 days ago

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

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 21 points 2 days ago

Sounds like this was basically the plot of the first Nolan Batman.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago

Did I just start my supervillain arc!?

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 days ago

Amazing. Bunch of stoned-out-of-gourd-anarchist-ninjas trying to burn Gotham to the ground and the only saviour is a playboy billionaire

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

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”.

[-] Actionschnils@feddit.org 6 points 2 days 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.

[-] jedibob5@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I looked it up, and it's apparently closely related to the datura genus, so that doesn't surprise me lol

[-] chuymatt@startrek.website 5 points 2 days ago

Holy crap. Used in some cultures on unruly children so that their ancestors could directly admonish them!

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days 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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