Jimsonweed

One way or another, the use of this plant by Ben and Eric was a major contributing factor in Eric's death.

Known as jimsonweed, locoweed, stinkweed, madapple, thornapple are among the street names for the foul-smelling Datura stramonium plant.

It is one of a group of plants known as belladonnas.

Datura stramonium is a common weed found along roadsides in cornfields, pastures and waste areas.

It has been reported to grow widely in all but two states, Wyoming and Alaska.

Although it's not popular on the street, it is usually used by teenagers curious about the plant's hallucinogenic and euphoric effects.

That experience failed and then the United Nations was created.

Anyway, so this Ummam, they divided it up.

But this is all called Bilad al-Sham.

So they went to Bilad al-Sham in the summer and they used to go to Yemen in the winter.

One way or another, the use of this plant by Ben and Eric was a major contributing factor in Eric's death.

The plant, known as jimsonweed, locoweed, stinkweed, madapple, thornapple, are among the street names for the foul-smelling Datura stramonium plant.

It is one of a group of plants known as belladonnas.

Datura stramonium is a common weed found along roadsides in cornfields, pastures, and waste areas.

It has been reported to grow widely in all but two states, Wyoming and Alaska.

Although it's not popular on the street, it is usually used by teenagers curious about the plant's hallucinogenic and euphoric effects.

Myths often have some basis in fact.

So how did Circe erase the memories of Odysseus' men and turn them into swine? The ancient Greeks knew that an extract of the Datura stramonium plant, known today as thorn apple or gypsum weed, had the ability to rob people of their memories and to cast them into hallucinatory state, sometimes accompanied by delusions of being turned into animals.

The active ingredient in datura is atropine, which has the effect of blocking the action of an important neurotransmitter known as acetylcholine.

Neurotransmitters are molecules which are used to transmit information from one nerve cell to another and are responsible for effects ranging from controlling the heartbeat to the retention of memory.

Then, said Davis, after the burial and the exhumation, the victim is kept compliant with a paste made from datura.

a plant called Devil's Trumpet, a deliriant that causes amnesia, confusion, and total suggestibility.

So, poison to fake the death, a different drug to erase the mind, and a culture that already believes in zombies to do the rest.

Terrifying side note where this old Haitian story reaches out across the cane fields and taps you on the shoulder in the present day in the worst possible way.

That second drug, the datura, The devil's trumpet, the one Davis says the bokor uses to keep the zombie hollow and obedient, well, it showed up in a place nobody expected.

On the 13th of January, 2026, the Department of Justice released a batch of the Epstein files, and buried in that release were emails tying Jeffrey Epstein to trumpet plants.

A 2014 email has him asking about his, quote, "...trumpet plants at nursery." A message forwarded to him in 2015 came with a subject line calling scopolamine a drug that, and I'm reading it, eliminates free will.

The plant in the Epstein files is usually Angel's Trumpet, a deceptive name, at least the other one is honest.

Can you imagine being so desperate for someone to like you that you'd drink boiling lizard soup with fingernails floating in it? Some love potions used plants that could literally kill you.

The Datura plant, also called Jimsonweed, causes powerful hallucinations that can make you lose your mind or stop your heart.

In ancient South America, this plant was so powerful that it was used to drug women who were then buried alive alongside their dead husbands.

Think about that for a second.

Anyone and everyone.

The call of the wild is encoded in our... genetic memory we come from the world of wolf and deer fish and fowl and when our civilization has crumbled and the cities lay in ruin we'll have no choice but to return when the hydraulic door bolts had finished noisily clunking in the place behind me I turned to Kaz and said that was the weirdest conversation that guy's whacked out of his noodle in there Kaz smiled a little and replied, Peyote and Jimsonweed.

He says it's how he communicates with his spirits.

Yeah, I said reluctantly.

By Charles M. Skinner.

Jimsonweed Among flourishing, therefore despised, growths of waste places in our cities is the Stratemonium, or thorn apple, more generally known as Jimsonweed.

It has a beautiful trumpet-shaped flower of white streaked with lavender, faintly fragrant, and the blossom is succeeded by a seed pod as large as a butternut and covered with thorns.

The odor of the crushed leaves is sickish and unpleasant.