Drugs, roast beef sandwiches, and garden shears, oh MY!

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From The Times-Picayune


3 Kenner teens hospitalized for overdose
Weed used to make hallucinogenic drink
Saturday, May 29, 2004
By Matt Scallan
Kenner bureau

Three Kenner teenagers who drank a cocktail made from a flower with hallucinogenic properties and Kool-Aid were treated for a drug overdose, police said Friday.

The teens, ages 16 to 18, boiled down the mixture of the lemonade drink mix with the "angel's trumpet" flower and drank it Monday at a gathering at a home on Pommard Drive in Kenner, Capt. Steve Caraway said.

The mixture can cause severe hallucinations and convulsions or be fatal, depending on the strength of the mix, Caraway said.

A parent arriving at the home about 5 p.m. found the teens in the early stages of overdose, and one of them was in a coma-like state by the time they arrived at Kenner Regional Medical Center, Caraway said.

All three have been released from the hospital, he said.

"They said they didn't have any money for drugs, so they went down the street and picked these flowers," he said.

"The investigating officers were told by others in the home that they were going to boil several more gallons of this so they could sell it."

Caraway declined to identify the teens, two boys and a girl, or the address of the home, because possession of angel's trumpet is not a crime and there are no charges pending.

Police were called by hospital officials, he said.

Caraway said there are several varieties of the plant, formally known as Datura Stramonium.

Its common names are jimson weed, locoweed and devil's weed; it can cause extremely vivid hallucinations.

"One of the kids climbed up on the roof of the house and was getting ready to jump off. Another one was taking bites out of his arm and offering it to other people in the room. He thought it was a roast beef sandwich," Caraway said.

Kenner police have had some dealings in the past with calls related to the plant, he said. "It happens more in the spring and summer, because that's when the flowers bloom," he said.

The weed has also caused problems for authorities in Europe.

Last spring, an 18-year-old German student cut off his penis and tongue with garden shears after drinking a tea made with the plant.

German officials at the time said it was the latest drug craze to hit their country and described the tea from the plant as extremely dangerous and able to drive people to insane acts.

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