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- From: seb3502@OCVAXA.CC.OBERLIN.EDU (DANDELION)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: drugs you should NEVER do
- Date: 25 Jan 1994 18:57:02 GMT
- Message-ID: <2i3q1u$n7e@news.cc.oberlin.edu>
-
- recently i had a day off from work and decided to spend it
- experimenting with mandrake root. Mandrake contains scopalamine,
- which is (along with atropine) also found in thorn apple/belladonna.
- both were commonly used in 'witches potions' to induce out of body
- experiences, so my plan was to try to leave my body. these drugs
- are known to cause some unpleasant (but, i thought, hallucinogenic)
- effects.
-
- well, because a housemate had tried mandrake last year at a
- certain dosage with no effects noticable enough to count, i decided
- to make a much stronger tea with it. it is mind-bogglingly bitter,
- and because i mixed moleasses with it for sweetness, the tastes are
- associated for me and i can't stand even the smell of molasses anymore.
- i made about 1.5-2 pts of tea with around 6 tablespoons of mandrake.
- drank a bunch, nothing. drank another glass. felt some vague feelings,
- thought 'maybe it's coming on' and lay down to focus on it. it faded
- in around ten minutes
- so i drank more. i played tag like this with vague effects for a while,
- taking huge gulps in an attempt to get strong effects from it. eventually
- i quit, and went out for dinner. i felt no effects.
-
- as soon as i ate a medium-sized meal, my stomach began to hurt.
- i lay in bed for a while, feeling like i had indigestion. well, that feeling
- turned into the most horrific drug experience i can even imagine having.
- it did not involve any alteration of consciousness except that caused by the
- waves of cold chills, the protracted vomiting fits which dredged up stuff
- i'd eaten 8 or more hours earlier, and the diaherria which shortly consisted
- solely of yellowish water. for close to 10 hours all i could do was lay
- shivering under tons o' quilts, crawl to the bathroom to puke up clots of
- fairly-well-digested food and quarts of water i'd been drinking to keep
- hydrated, and shit water. i almost had someone take me to the hospital,
- even knowing how barbaric they are there about drugs (they tried to help
- a friend who was freaking out on mushrooms and made the mistake of going
- there by interrogating her for almost an hour about where she got the shrooms)
- eventually my girlfriend found a reference to mandrake which said
- it could be used as an emetic, a very powerful emetic, and not to usde it
- since other less dangerous herbs give the same effects. they said, if you
- were driven for some reason to use it, to make a tea approx. 1/6 the
- strength of the one i'd made, and sip a tablespoon an hour for four hours.
- holy shit i drank about two pints o the shit!
-
- moral of the story: stick to legit, illegal drugs.
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