Crazy!

I found this article at work and thought how crazy people are just for a little high in there life!


Datura: A new revival of an old high

Kids have found a old way (but new to them) way to get high and it is a very dangerous, poisonous plant. The plants is a form of jimsonweed called Datura. Commonly known in the valley as "Moon Flower" because the flowers open at night. It is commonly found along ditch/irrigation banks because it kills other and does not obstruct the flow of water.
Once the flowers have bloomed and fallen off a prickly pod is produced. Inside the pod are hundreds of seeds. The kids are eating the seeds to get high without realizing the devastating effects it can have with even a single use. Datura contains atropine. When ingested, the drug attacks the nervous system causing hallucinations and euphoria then blurred vision, headaches, nausea, dizziness, severely large eye pupils, short term memory loss (sometimes permanent). It can also cause bizarre, inexplicable and violent behavior along with severe liver damage and, in some cases, death.

In the last few weeks, Ada County Sheriff's detectives have seen several students end up in the emergency room eating Datura seeds. Some have had to stay in Intensive Care for days. Another went into a coma.

Officers have found more than a dozen homes in North Ada County with this plant but the homeowners had no idea of its potential health hazards. An alert has gone out to area Neighborhood Watch Coordinators so that they may educate people in their neighborhoods.

We are hoping to get information about Datura out to everyone in our area so they can be aware of the risk and help children avoid this.

For more information please visit the following website:

National Drug Intelligence Center - www.usdoj.gov/ndic