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MagisterTom Scocca
10/17/14 10:52am
Dude. Now that you've alerted them, the city will probably dispatch a crew. Of course as the Jimsomweed story has always gone, once the media becomes aware of it, there will be a spate of stories which will teach the young people what to seek. That's really the only thing keeping you from being called a buzzkill.
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  Tom ScoccaMagister
  10/17/14 10:56am
  That and all the seeds it's already scattered.
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  MagisterTom Scocca
  10/17/14 11:10am
  Maybe they won't pave it over or come next year with Round-up. Points for self-restraint.
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Tom ScoccaTom Scocca
10/20/14 3:37pm
UPDATE:

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mishellie3088Tom Scocca
10/17/14 9:54am
Isn't jimon weed what Claire gives Ned to smoke for his asthma on Outlander? Maybe I'm thinking something else.
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  Tom Scoccamishellie3088
  10/17/14 9:57am
  It's used for asthma, yes.
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  Dr. StrangegunTom Scocca
  10/25/14 3:43pm
  *NO*.... the show's "thornapple" is hawthorn.
  
  Last thing you want it some innocent all-organic "naturalist" with asthma trying a little toke of jimsonweed.
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ScottRaphaelTom Scocca
10/17/14 9:53am
It's a hearty weed. It grows everywhere. "News at 11, dandelions sprout in crack from sidewalk."
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  Tom ScoccaScottRaphael
  10/17/14 9:55am
  Huh! I never thought of it that way.
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  cicciobombaScottRaphael
  10/17/14 10:11am
  what a dick.
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booktartTom Scocca
10/17/14 9:46am
Georgia O'Keefe did a painting of this plant that now hangs in the Indianapolis Museum of Art. From Wikipedia: "O'Keeffe was immensely fond of jimson weed, ignoring its seeds' toxicity and allowing it to flourish around her patio. She paid tribute to the bloom in this painting, originally entitled Miracle Flower. Jimson Weed was commissioned by cosmetics magnate Elizabeth Arden for the new Gymnasium Moderne of her Fifth Avenue Salon in New York City. Placed in the exercise room, the unfurling blossoms were meant to encourage clients in their stretches. Arden paid the exorbitant sum of $10,000 for the largest floral composition O'Keeffe would ever create."

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FehFesterson23Tom Scocca
10/17/14 12:37pm
Now that's some responsible reporting "Hey! Here's a plant, that grows everywhere, that will get you HIGH. (also, it might kill you) IT GETS YOU HIGH (but you might die) HIGH"
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  Tom ScoccaFehFesterson23
  10/17/14 12:47pm
  What an extremely insightful and accurate paraphrase of the post.
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Kerberos824Tom Scocca
10/17/14 10:00am
A friend of mine took Jimsonweed once when he was 15. He was doing ok for about 18 hours, vividly hallucinating and totally detached from reality. But then his parents saw through our ruse, and found us at our friends house whose parents were out of town. He went to the hospital where he had his stomach pumped and they thought he was going to die. So he got to have his last rights read to him as he was vividly hallucinating that he was on an alien world. I maintain to this day he would have been fine had he not had to go to the hospital and just stuck with his babysitters (us). But it didn't look like much fun. Lots of vomiting.
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  ConflictedInNYCKerberos824
  10/17/14 10:13am
  Hahaha 18+ hours of hallucinating sounds bad though.
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  Kerberos824ConflictedInNYC
  10/17/14 10:50am
  Oh man, 18 hours was nothing. That was just before we got caught. He spent 5 days in the hospital, and I'd say a total of 72 hours hallucinating. That being from the time of ingestion to when it finally stopped. Understandably, he did not recommend anyone else try it....
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Lorem IpsumTom Scocca
10/17/14 10:01am
I'm no expert, but when I saw the picture I said "That's moonflower." People grow them in their flower beds in Nebraska because of the big, pretty flowers. Not farmers, though; they have herbicides that specifically target Jimson weed to keep it out of the fields.

Very rarely, some teenager is dumb enough to ingest them and gets super sick or dies.
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  ToadYouOnceToadYouTwiceLorem Ipsum
  10/17/14 10:53am
  We call them "moth flowers" in Austin, because they attract the moths and keep them away from everything else. I knew they were poisonous, but I had no idea about the hallucinations...nah, I'm too old to try that shit.
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  Lorem IpsumToadYouOnceToadYouTwice
  10/17/14 11:02am
  Yeah, my mom calls those moths "luna moths" because they come out in the moonlight. But actually I think they're Hawkmoths, because Luna Moths are bright green.
  
  I dunno, this article is kind of funny, because this New Yorker is all "Observe this rare mystical magical plant containing dangerous and hallucinatory properties." and everyone else is like "Yeah, my granny grows these in her yard, big whoop." LOL.
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RobTom Scocca
10/17/14 10:01am
Although some people are stupid enough to eat it (like myself...), as I got older I realized it is no more worth making a big deal out of than being able to open your kitchen cupboard and taking a swig of drain cleaner. I grew up on farms and not only ate it, but got busted in school for selling it.

Funny thing is I became a horticulturist and am a grower of both Datura & Brugmansia. And I currently have these "thorn apples" all over my yard. Quite a beautiful plant & flower and hugely popular to the portuguese community as an ornamental flower. Although I do sometimes miss the time Clint Eastwood chased me around my house for 3 days, or the late nights howling like a wolf in the hospital, I think anyone taking this once would learn their lesson and never touch it again. If they live......
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  xxsonicxxRob
  10/17/14 11:17am
  in my teens, ate the seeds raw with a group a friends, not anything we wanted to repeat again. your hallucinations are real to you, for example, people who smoked thought they had a cigarette when in fact they did not. worst part was the poison gave you blurry vision for a few days, hard to explain to teachers why i couldn't read or study for that period of time.
  
  another kid in the neighborhood woke up in the psych ward after a night of jimsonweed. i feel lucky no one stopped me on my way home in the morning after i had no memory of. i do remember waking up at my buddies house, he was dressed as an alligator and his brother had 2 cheerleaders in his room, so i walked home with just 1 shoe. more than once i found myself talking to mailboxes and street light posts thinking it was my friend. still till this day i never asked my mother if she was aware of my mutterings that day at home. it honk the funniest story we heard was a girl who thought she was in a bathroom and peed in the backseat of a guys car as he driving. i no nobody from that time who ever tried it again, we threw our huge bag of seeds in the local malls water fountain.
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  Triumph of the Will ClarkRob
  10/17/14 11:22am
  Hahaha!!!
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maugTom Scocca
10/17/14 9:43am
I grow this stuff because I love how the flowers look at night and they can grow just about anywhere.
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  sayyadinamaug
  10/17/14 12:25pm
  I've seen a few datura metel plants that get over 10 feet tall with flowers about a foot long. They have a beautiful smell at night. I just love them but they're hard to fit into a landscape especially if you have to worry about frost killing them back- I wouldn't be comfortable having to try to cut back and dispose of the dead plant, too risky.
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  Jacob Cliftonmaug
  10/21/14 11:54am
  Same. We have them all down the back garden. They smell so good.
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