Newsgroups: alt.psychoactives

: Anyone know anything about JImson Weed? It has apparently put several 
: kids in the hospital around here due to overdose.  It's supposed to be 
: highly psychoactive and hallucinigenic, but very dangerous if OD'd on.. 
: Any info?

Having used datura a few times in my youth as well a related plant that, I 
believe, here in California, is called Angel's Trumpet. I determined the 
dosage from reading between the lines from the first Don Juan book. 
Perhaps, I was just lucky. While it is accurate to say it highly 
psychoactive, it is not hallucinogenic. It is delusional. I have never 
believed that any hallucination I saw under the influence of mushrooms, 
mescaline, acid was anything more than a mirror of my mind or the 
perception of things usually filtered. Datura and this other plant 
produce a state where you believe that what you perceive is real. Truly.
It contains belladonna alkaloids and is very dangerous. The "high" lasts 
about 36-48 hours. It will allow you to do very stupid and dangerous 
things. As an example, a group of us, consumed a tea made out of the 
seeds and finely chopped roots. One guy, who dealt drugs and wasn't 
particularily centered and/or able to connect with anyone else in the 
group decided to take off. Another guy and I understood that it was 
dangerous for anybody to become separated so we pursued him down to a 
busy boulevard where after a couple of blocks we became freaked and 
ceased tried trying to talk him into returning with us. We went back 
to the house. He went on his way, went to his house, got a suitcase full 
of drugs, walked to a strange neighborhood and into some old people's 
house. Whereupon, he began to behave as if he was in his own house. 
What occurred next I'm sure is obvious.
If ya really want to get whacked out and have, perhaps, a transcendent 
experience, this is not it. If reports here and elsewhere are correct, 
and you want something like that, find a chemist, synthesize some DMT, 
find a safe place and your deity be with you. At least you won't die.
                                       - mark