TikTok has given us a lot over the years, even if majority of it has been perplexing, NSFW, or a sea shanty. TikTok truly excels at some category of viral content and no other platform can compete with them.
The Footage
Whether it's an adorable little animal, taking the risk of burning to death from a shabby household appliance, or, a distinct cute little ea creature, actually there is a lot of nightmare fuel on there.
And the recent inclusion to the TikTok list is no exception. Raffaela Weyman, a singer-songwriter posted footage of herself and her friend enjoying a large yellow flower's "delicious smell" last week.
This sounds lovely, except the best way to describe the video is "two young women unintentionally drug themselves while on camera with the use of the the scariest hallucinogenic narcotic in the world.
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How it Happened
Weyman wrote in her TikTok, saying that when they got to their friend's birthday, both of them felt so "f**** up" suddenly and decided to leave. She said it happens that the flower is very poisonous and they unintentionally drugged themselves.
It so happened that the women came across a flower referred to as Angel's Trumpet. Apart from being a beautiful and obviously sweet-smelling flower, the flower is also a source of scopolamine - usually referred to as Devil's Breath given its effect.
Devil's Breath may well be fearful stories of hallucinations, amnesia, and even "zombification" if you've heard about it. "It's horrible stuff," a professor of pharmacology at UCL's Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Val Curran, told The Guardian.
Fear of Scopolamine
Val Curran said when she used to give people this flower in experiments, they disliked it. She said it usually makes the mouth really dry, and also it makes the pupils constrict. Surely high doses would be totally incapacitating.
But the claims that brought a lot of fear, like a spiked business card sending tourists into a zombie-like state or a strange powder substance blown into their face, gaining consciousness later to discover their bank accounts has been emptied and their organs sold to the black market? Those are not likely.
Curran told The Guardian: "You get these frightening stories and they don't have any toxicology, so nobody is aware of what it is, the thought that it is scopolamine is kind of far-fetched, this is because there are possibilities that it could be anything."
What's certainly obvious is that Weyman didn't have a good but a bad time with the drug.
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