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once things dry out in late spring and through the summer, it's one of the few green plants you see in chaparral. it has a white trumpet shaped flower. when i say it's everywhere, i mean i've spotted it growing in the median between the e/b and w/b lanes of the 118 freeway from moorpark to simi valley. and along every trail i've ever hiked in the santa monica and santa susana ranges. i used to see it about 150 feet outside my front door before they built a new housing tract and paved everything. it's not called jimson weed without reason. Last edited by hi_im_god : 12-15-2008 at 07:50 PM. |
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And probably pretty common in horse pastures as we...
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I saw this bumper sticker in 'toga this past summer:
"Good jockeys don't let horses win trippin" Or was it "Trippin' horses don't let bad jockeys cross the line"? Last edited by Mike : 12-15-2008 at 08:24 PM. |
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Before Dr. Gonzo enters the discussion...Buscopan, a relatively new drug used to treat colic in horses, is a derivative of scopolamine.
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I read a story once that it is also the new date rape drug in some south american countries....it makes people zombies and unlike some other date rape drugs, with this one the amnesia prevents identification of the offenders.
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LinksI posted state scopolamine is used in Thailand, among other places, to drug tourists and rob them. Says most people on this drug wind up in the hands of authorities first(before the mental hospital) as they acting very bizarre. A book on chemicals studied by the U.S. in the 1950's, states the effects of a very similar compound to Jimson weed(scopolamine) causes delirious states of mind for a day or two. One interesting side effect was the "smoking of imaginary cigarettes"
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