ENDescription
Datura stramonium is an annual herb in the nightshade family Solanaceae. All parts of the plant contain dangerous levels of the tropane alkaloids atropine, hyoscyamine, and scopolamine, which cause a state of profound and long-lasting disorientation or delirium (anticholinergic syndrome) and is potentially fatal. It has also been used as a hallucinogen taken to induce intense, sacred or occult visions. Aka Jimson weed, jimsonweed, Jamestown weed, thorn apple, devil's snare, devil's trumpet.
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