Rick Strassman
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It's an anticholinergic like the scopolamine drugs are.
Does Dramamine have this stuff in it?
Yeah, well, it's really the active ingredient in jimson weed, loco weed.
It grows in the southwest.
There's a lot growing in New Mexico, jimson weed, loco weed.
And it will cause, you know, effects.
Well, you know, one of my patients when I worked at the VA in La Jolla, you know, was an alcoholic back in the day.
Took Jim some weed tea, drank a lot of it, wandered off to the desert, two, three days, one of those kind of stories.
Came back, he didn't remember a thing, but he stopped using alcohol.
He was brain damaged, though.
from either being in the desert or from the scopolamy took too much.
Yeah, it's a crazy drug.