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From: seb3502@OCVAXA.CC.OBERLIN.EDU (DANDELION)
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
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Subject: drugs you should NEVER do
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Date: 25 Jan 1994 18:57:02 GMT
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Message-ID: <2i3q1u$n7e@news.cc.oberlin.edu>
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recently i had a day off from work and decided to spend it
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experimenting with mandrake root. Mandrake contains scopalamine,
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which is (along with atropine) also found in thorn apple/belladonna.
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both were commonly used in 'witches potions' to induce out of body
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experiences, so my plan was to try to leave my body. these drugs
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are known to cause some unpleasant (but, i thought, hallucinogenic)
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effects.
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well, because a housemate had tried mandrake last year at a
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certain dosage with no effects noticable enough to count, i decided
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to make a much stronger tea with it. it is mind-bogglingly bitter,
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and because i mixed moleasses with it for sweetness, the tastes are
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associated for me and i can't stand even the smell of molasses anymore.
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i made about 1.5-2 pts of tea with around 6 tablespoons of mandrake.
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drank a bunch, nothing. drank another glass. felt some vague feelings,
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thought 'maybe it's coming on' and lay down to focus on it. it faded
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in around ten minutes
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so i drank more. i played tag like this with vague effects for a while,
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taking huge gulps in an attempt to get strong effects from it. eventually
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i quit, and went out for dinner. i felt no effects.
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as soon as i ate a medium-sized meal, my stomach began to hurt.
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i lay in bed for a while, feeling like i had indigestion. well, that feeling
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turned into the most horrific drug experience i can even imagine having.
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it did not involve any alteration of consciousness except that caused by the
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waves of cold chills, the protracted vomiting fits which dredged up stuff
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i'd eaten 8 or more hours earlier, and the diaherria which shortly consisted
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solely of yellowish water. for close to 10 hours all i could do was lay
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shivering under tons o' quilts, crawl to the bathroom to puke up clots of
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fairly-well-digested food and quarts of water i'd been drinking to keep
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hydrated, and shit water. i almost had someone take me to the hospital,
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even knowing how barbaric they are there about drugs (they tried to help
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a friend who was freaking out on mushrooms and made the mistake of going
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there by interrogating her for almost an hour about where she got the shrooms)
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eventually my girlfriend found a reference to mandrake which said
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it could be used as an emetic, a very powerful emetic, and not to usde it
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since other less dangerous herbs give the same effects. they said, if you
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were driven for some reason to use it, to make a tea approx. 1/6 the
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strength of the one i'd made, and sip a tablespoon an hour for four hours.
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holy shit i drank about two pints o the shit!
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moral of the story: stick to legit, illegal drugs.
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this story is told for informational purposes only. no product
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is endorsed, nor celebrity. if you think these are the opinions
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of anyone, you are mistaken; it's easily denied.
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