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Without its blooms, delicate white funnels, the Angel's Trumpet or Jimson Weed (datura stramonium) is as drab a plant as it is potent and potentially lethal. It lacks the cosmetic flair of its popular, ubiquitous mind altering fellows, Cannabis and the poppy whose leaves and/or fruit seem to scream their weirdness. A staple in shaman's preparations, particularly wysoccon, (used in Algonquin rituals), it goes by other names as well, ones that reveal it's raw chemical power, devil weed, mad apple, zombie's cucumber.

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For years American emergency rooms have dealt with hordes of youngsters tripping on Angels' Trumpet tea, made from the mature seeds of the plant. The symptoms of ingestion include dry mouth, sometimes fatal rapid heartbeat, fever, constipation, and, of course, the vivid, often ugly hallucinations.

THE TRIPS
The hallucinogens are atropine and scopolamine. The effects of the tea may last as long as forty-eight hours.

Users of Angel's Trumpet report hallucinations involving conversations with nonexistent people, inanimate objects that seem to be alive, plants that are seemingly possessed of intelligence, not recognizing their own reflection in a mirror, among many other things.
Another effect of Angel's Trumpet is amnesia. The user finds himself or herself in a city with no idea how to get home or even where home is.

THE BENEFITS
It is thought to be useful in treating whooping coughs and asthma, and as a muscle relaxant.

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