TikTok user @songsbyralph shared what began as a sweet moment with a friend, only to turn into a much darker story, involving "the world's scariest drug."
The video, shared by singer Raffaela Weyman, known professionally as RALPH, showed her and a friend innocently smelling flowers found in a bush next to a sidewalk. Seemingly, the women had a photoshoot of sorts while doing so, with Weyman uploading the images to Instagram.
However, the story took a darker turn, when the women claim to have begun feeling "f**ked up," later in the night.
"Me and my BFF found this beautiful flower and spent the night deeply inhaling its smell," she wrote. "When we arrived at our friend's bday, we both suddenly felt so f**ked up, and had to leave."
"When I got home and fell asleep, I had the craziest dreams and experienced sleep paralysis for the first time in my life," she added.
The flower Weyman and her friend had been smelling was actually angel's trumpet, which is regularly used as a hallucinogen. Often, the flower is brewed as a tea or the leaves are dried and smoked.
Angel's trumpet contains large amounts of belladonna alkaloids, which include atropine, hyoscyamine and scopolamine. Scopolamine, which is also known as "Devil's Breath" has a large reputation as being extremely dangerous and is often used to commit crimes in Columbia.
In 2012, Vice filmed a popular documentary on scopolamine, and dubbed it the "world's scariest drug," describing it as the "worst roofie you can ever imagine times a million."
Vice spoke to Columbia toxicologist Dra. Miriam Gutierrez, who explained that it's perfect for crimes, as the drug has the ability to turn victims into a hypnotized zombie-like state but wont knock them out or affect the ability to speak, making them even willing to help the perpetrators commit the crime on themselves—often robbery or sexual assault. The victim also doesn't remember anything the next day, and so won't report it to the police.
When used by criminals, the "Devil's Breath" is extracted from the plant, rather than ingested with the flower. Often, it will be turned into a pill or powder form, and criminals are even able to blow the powder in the victim's face, or have them unknowingly move their face close to it and accidentally inhale it.
After waking up the next morning, Weyman turned to Google to discover exactly what kind of plant she had been smelling in the TikTok video.
"Turns out the flower is super poisonous and we accidentally drugged ourselves like idiots," she wrote.
Reportedly, most symptoms of the plant are caused by directly ingesting it, but according to Queensland Health, "the perfume can cause respiratory irritation, headaches, nausea, and light-headedness."
Newsweek contacted Raffaela Weyman for comment.
June 28, 2021 at 10:59PM
https://www.newsweek.com/women-smell-poisonous-flower-angels-trumpet-worlds-scariest-drug-tiktok-1604733
Women Film Themselves Smelling Flower, Turns Out to Be 'World's Scariest Drug' - Newsweek
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