"The Devil's Breath"

[grrim]

This is one of the scariest drugs I've heard of.

Zombie Drug clip
"News To Me's" Eric Lanford talks to a VBS.TV reporter about a deadly Colombian drug that can turn people into zombies.

Comments

[nephthys510]

holy shit.

Thanks for that.

[bete_noire]

it's also present in datura, which grows right here, and belladonna. it's not really new: witches used to use scopolamine in flying ointment in place of mushrooms. it's just that refined scopolamine doesn't occur in nature, and they're using the same methods to refine it that they do for cocaine. any natural alkaloid treated that way is gonna be dangerous.

moral, same as ever: watch your drink. and if some crazylookin mothafucka blows something in your face, unless it's glitter, find a cop.

[concertfreak]

that is a crazy drug.

so how have you been. you never post anything on lj anymore. :P

except for random things about zombie. drugs.

[luxobscura]

Wiki article is interesting, in terms of the pharmaceutical uses that have been around for a while.

WHY DOES COLOMBIA EXIST?

[luxobscura]

I mean, between the Drug Wars, Police Corruption, their Civil War, paramilitary death squads, the kidnapping industry down there and the insane amounts of street crime, you'd think the place would just go ahead and fucking implode already.

[grrim]

Without Columbia, where would Hollywood get all thier great movie concepts like the EPIC Bad Boys 2 and such movies of awsome metal. *gag*

[luxobscura]

[thinks]

[looks puzzled]

Tasmania!

[paisli]

Isn't this the same drug that the book/movie Serpent ant the Rainbow is based on?

[bete_noire]

no. that's tetradotoxin, obtained from puffer fish. that shit really IS dangerous.

[paisli]

AHHH.. wow.. very similar stuff though?? that's the stuff the Haitians have been zombifiying people with for ages though isn't it?

[luxobscura]

It's more of a true paralytic, versus a Rohypnol-stlye amnesia drug.