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Drug 'Devil's Breath' from Colombia can block free will, wipe memory and even kill
UK Daily Mail ^ | May 12, 2012 | Beth Stebner

Posted on 05/13/2012 3:57:59 PM PDT by Innovative

Scopolamine often blown into faces of victims or added to drinks

Within minutes, victims are like 'zombies' - coherent, but with no free will

Some victims report emptying bank accounts to robbers or helping them pillage own house

Drug is made from borrachero tree, which is common in Colombia

... He told Vice that Scopolamine can be blown in the face of a passer-by on the street, and within minutes, that person is under the drug's effect - scopolamine is odourless and tasteless-

'You can guide them wherever you want,' he explained. 'It's like they're a child.'

Black said that one gram of Scopolamine is similar to a gram of cocaine, but later called it 'worse than anthrax.'

In high doses, it is lethal.

The drug, he said, turns people into complete zombies and blocks memories from forming. So even after the drug wears off, victims have no recollection as to what happened.

One victim told Vice that a man approached her on the street asking her for directions. Since it was close by, she helped take the man to his destination, and they drank juice together.

She took the man to her house and helped him gather all of her belongings, including her boyfriend's cameras and savings.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: blowninface; devilsbreath; drugs; scopolamine
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To: Innovative

Absolutely the best thing ever for seasickness.

A patch lasts three days.

21 posted on 05/13/2012 6:02:12 PM PDT by Species8472 (Stupid is supposed to hurt)
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To: aruanan
"I think you can get scopolamine from Jimson Weed, including the other belladonna alkaloid atropine."

Effects of ingestion ...a complete inability to differentiate reality from fantasy... Wiki

Probably the best description of what it's like to be under it's influence. Don't ask how I know.

I'm thinking this is what inspired the poison used by the psych doctor in the movie "Batman Begins". He blew it on people too.

22 posted on 05/13/2012 6:08:45 PM PDT by Dogbert41 ("...The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the Lord Almighty is their God" Zech. 12:5)
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To: Innovative
My favorite zombies:


23 posted on 05/13/2012 6:27:20 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: DollyCali

I got the picture from Mail online (where the OP got the story) This is pictured as the bush where the poisonous stuff comes from.

As I said, there used to be one of these at an apt complex here and I’m sure they called it an angel trumpet.
It’s got to be different from that poison bush. They couldn’t have anything so poisonous growing out in public.


24 posted on 05/13/2012 6:44:13 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Innovative

That’s wild, as this was just used in an episode of ‘Castle’ not too long ago. The murderer used this drug to convince someone who was playing a zombie that they actually were one and sent him to kill someone. I figured they were making it up at the time just to have a plot, but it’s actually a real thing.


25 posted on 05/13/2012 6:45:42 PM PDT by tarawa
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To: P.O.E.

http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=11218


26 posted on 05/13/2012 6:46:02 PM PDT by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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To: Innovative

I think a house in my neighbor has or had this stuff growing in their yard. Is it a tree or a vine growing in a tree? I’ll have to go and look for it tomorrow.


27 posted on 05/13/2012 6:51:21 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Ditter

typo.... should be neighborhood


28 posted on 05/13/2012 6:52:43 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Innovative

Now we know what happened to the SS agents in Columbia....:))


29 posted on 05/13/2012 7:10:12 PM PDT by jennings2004 (President Hayes, Mount Rushmore, telephone, Dear Leader...what a mix!)
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To: patriot08
As I said, there used to be one of these at an apt complex here and I’m sure they called it an angel trumpet. It’s got to be different from that poison bush. They couldn’t have anything so poisonous growing out in public.

You can purchase those plants at quite a few nurseries in San Antonio. If you think Datura is bad, try chewing Morning Glory seeds..........

30 posted on 05/13/2012 7:17:24 PM PDT by Sarajevo (http://rulesoftheinternet.com/index.php?title=Main_Page)
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To: patriot08
They couldn’t have anything so poisonous growing out in public.

It grows wild pretty much everywhere.

31 posted on 05/13/2012 7:19:17 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The best diplomat I know is a fully-activated phaser bank. - Montgomery Scott)
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To: patriot08
They couldn’t have anything so poisonous growing out in public.

Of the poisonous plants that can grow in any given area, very few are regulated by the government, and even fewer have those regulations enforced. It's quite possible to have deadly poisons growing all around you and never know it. There's a book called "Wicked Plants" that tells about some of them, but the author readily admits that it doesn't cover all of them.
32 posted on 05/13/2012 7:23:07 PM PDT by Ellendra ("It's astounding how often people mistake their own stupidity for a lack of fairness." --Thunt)
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To: Dogbert41

33 posted on 05/13/2012 7:24:56 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The best diplomat I know is a fully-activated phaser bank. - Montgomery Scott)
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To: Innovative

You think that the Food Stamp President and the Democrats were onto this during the 2008 election? Sure sounds like the followers of the evil one.


34 posted on 05/13/2012 7:30:45 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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To: Innovative

This would explain the 2008 election. And the 2012 Republican race.


35 posted on 05/13/2012 7:34:56 PM PDT by gitmo
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To: Ellendra
It's quite possible to have deadly poisons growing all around you and never know it.

Like jimson weed, potatoes and tomatoes are also nightshade plants and potentially poisonous. Deadly poisonous landscape plants include caster oil and oleander plants.


36 posted on 05/13/2012 7:35:28 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The best diplomat I know is a fully-activated phaser bank. - Montgomery Scott)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Shades of "White Zombie" one of my fave movies.

In his mansion when you walked down the stairs, there were zombies in the walls that would hold candleabras out as you walked by, very spooky.

37 posted on 05/13/2012 7:44:57 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

It’s nearly impossible to kill an Oleander plant. We had ours dug up a couple or three years ago. They dug down several feet with a backhoe to try to get the roots. Today, it still comes up in dozens of places within 15 foot radius’ from it’s original locations.

The lawn mover cuts them all down, but they still keep coming up.


38 posted on 05/13/2012 7:49:16 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: Innovative

***Scopolamine****

Isn’t this the stuff the evil Nazis used on a captured commando (Anthony Quale) in THE GUNS OF NAVARONE?


39 posted on 05/13/2012 7:52:31 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Jeff Chandler

Well yeah, like orleander and morning glory seeds, but THIS thing- sounds like it could do you in by the wind just blowing it on you. I don’t think they’d have anything so dangerous around.


40 posted on 05/13/2012 8:03:03 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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