The plant is an annual, growing up to a height of 5 feet. Upon maturity, the plant releases tiny black seeds from spiny capsules. The flowers are trumpet shaped and either white or purple. While all parts of the plant are toxic, the seeds, fruit, and leaves contain the highest level of alkaloids.

The primary psychoactive substances in Jimsonweed are the alkaloids atropine and scopolamine (also found in Belladonna). Atropine has been used in treating Parkinson's disease, peptic ulcers, diarrhea, and bronchial asthma.
It is also used to treat nerve gas poisoning. Scopolamine is available by prescription primarily for treating motion sickness.
Scopolamine has also been used as an adulterant with heroin. During a 24-hour period in December 1995, at least 60 heroin users in Newark, New Jersey, died after using heroin tainted with scopolamine.
Jimsonweed is commonly consumed in herbal tea concoctions. The seeds, leaves, and flower nectar can also be eaten or smoked. The high experienced by users often includes delirium, delusions, hallucinations, disorientation, and incoherent speech. Often users do not recall the experience. It has been used in Wicca and Witchcraft.
In ancient herbal medicine, Jimsonweed was used internally to treat madness, epilepsy, and melancholy. Externally, it formed the basis of ointments for burns and rheumatism.
More recently, preparations from the plant have been used as ingredients in some asthma medicines. With this exception, however, plant is generally considered too toxic for medical applications nowadays.
Some scholars believe that vapours obtained by boiling this plant may have been used by the Delphic oracles to induce their legendary visions. More recently, in 1968, the use of Jimsonweed as a hallucinogenic drug prompted the US government to ban over-the-counter sales of products prepared from it.
Jimsonweed alkaloids are related to those found in magic mushrooms. Unlike magic mushrooms which will not cause death, even if very large quantities are consumed (a person will vomit if they take too many magic mushrooms for their body to handle), ingestion of Jimsonweed can lead to seizures, coma, and death, even if taken in very small quantities, SO DON'T EAT IT OR SMOKE IT!

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