I had two heaping table spoons of the flat, burr shaped seeds in the early nineties. I was busking outside a liquor store in Kamloops, B.C., when I struck up a conversation with two guys travelling south from Alaska. They were American. I wasn't green about drugs, I'd just never laid my eyes on any shit that looked like this before and they passed it off to me as Peyote actually. They sold me maybe four or five dried ounces of the stuff for like sixty bucks. Careful, they told me, one guy should trip while his friend babysits. Next night, the doser will be hung over and sluggish; he will then take over babysitting duties while the previous night's babysitter doses. It is an amusing and sometimes shocking sight; it sure has a way of picking up the hung over babysitter's spirits ~ sitting there watching his friend act like an imbecile; the drug will cause the doser to revert to the infantile stages, quickly and by startling, vivid degrees. It is a soporific as well as an hallucinogen and so the doser descends the staircase of reason in a sonambulant, dreamlike state rather than the electrified, amphetamine like ascent of LSD and mescaline. The hallucinations can be terrifyingly real but the user is for all intent purposes, 'drunk' on these seeds, and so he can be a little more brazen and sometimes hard to handle. I'll say this ~ everyone who I used them with in Kamloops got themselves caught up in serious trouble because of the shit. In the wrong hands some idiot, or even a poor child, could eat them with disasterous results. I have read reports since and found out it has the potential to be highly toxic, even lethal. My advice? This drug has the potential to kill you and quite easily too, especially if one doesn't know what he's doing. I know alot of you out there would like to fancy yourselves chemists and botonists when you're clearly not and stupidity like this realy has the potential to fuck you up so Peace.
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Re: BELLADONNA
Mon, June 19, 2006 - 4:17 AM
Your advice is sound and apt, DANNY69. The Solanaceae are a family of tropane-porduning platns that have been use in various New and Old World rutual practices for hundreds of years. Some of then were referrf to as the "hexing herbs" in the Middle Ages as their useage was almosy solely associated with witches and witchcraft. In South and Central America, speicies such a Brugmansia and Datura are somtimes used in porducing visioary ateas, occasionally being used as admixture plants in ayahuascas brews. In much of Central America and the deserts of the Southern US and Northern Mexico, where Peyotl grows, the psychoactive powers of these tropane-containing plants are well known, but are often considered to be hexing drugs used for malicious purposes by sorcerors, as opposed to allies like Peyotl being used to heal, divine and trascend with the guidance of a skilled shaman.
A large part of why the Solanaceae are fear and considered to be "dark spirits" and "evil entities" has to do with both the ease of which a dose can be miscalcuted and results in sever bodily injuries (often self-inflicted by the one who has consumed the plant material while still under the subjective effects of the substance), or occasioanlly even death from alkaloidal overdose. This is nothing like your 'typical' psychedelic drugs (in fact Dr. Shulgin suggests that the nature of the effects produced by these plants would best be descibed as 'deleriants', rather than as any sort of 'psychedelic" effect), nor is it for that matter much like any other psychoactive substance in general . The tropane alkaloids affect the acetylcholine receptors in the brain in such a manner as to create a state of extreme delerium, typically leading into a series of "visions" in which (for example) the subject oftentimes can find him/herself talking with people who are not there or who may be dead, or he'she is existing in different times and places, and he/she sometimes finds him/herself transforming into various creatures at times (aka lycanthropism).
This aforementioned descriptive content may sound fascinating from a psychonautic point-of-view, but do also consider that in addition to having to calcuate the dosage so carefully to obtain an affect such as I described and yet still avoid death or other extreme health consequences, that one rarely is able to recall any of the people spoken to, places visited, creatures changed into, nor very much else at all from the journey's contents except that they were "really fucked up". Furthmore, numbness in the extremeties, a dry scratchy metallic-tasting tongue, and severe pupilatory dilation caused by the substance can last for days, sometimes even several weeks following the ingestion of these types of plants.
And the topic of various users reporting that they feel 'haunted' or 'possessed' by 'evil dark entities' ever since they entered into the Datura/Brugmansia/Belladonna realms, and how this haunting is severly affecting their lives-- well this is not something I am going to extrapolate upon right now, other than to say that it should seem obvious now that this is yet another potential harmful consequence derived from misusing Solanaceous plants.
An unknown memeber of a DMT forum put it perhaps most aptly when he said, "the Horned Goddess is not to be trifled with-- not even by the most experienced psychonaut nor the most gifted neo-shaman..."
L&L,
--Eirias
