Colombia sees rise in use of ‘zombie’ drug that affects victims for hours

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

Colombia sees rise in use of ‘zombie’ drug that affects victims for hours
By Stephen C. Webster
Monday, June 17, 2013 15:50 EDT

Last year in Colombia, over 1,200 people were dosed by criminals with a so-called “zombie” drug that makes victims compliant and happy to say or do anything their captors tell them to.

Frighteningly, according to a report in The Global Post on Monday, the use of this drug is on the rise and regional hospitals are seeing at least several victims every week of late.

The drug is called scopolamine, derived from the Datura stramonium plant, otherwise known as jimsonweed. It’s victims lose their grasp on reality and often wind up with their bank accounts drained, their belongings stolen and a massive hangover — and that’s if they’re lucky.

Scopolamine is especially notorious for its use in sexual assaults, and was even detected in street-level date rape drugs that sent 20 people to hospitals in 2008, according to The International Business Times.


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/17/colombia-sees-rise-in-use-of-zombie-drug-that-affects-victims-for-hours/

[Orrex]

1. Also reported to instill a fondness for reality tv

[LunaSea]

2. online doc

[azurnoir]

3. scopolamine was one of the drugs called 'angel dust' in the 1970's

if memory serves it's effects were something like drug induced autism-such as you could clearly hear the person speaking but could not understand what they were saying, it was dangerous and rather unpleasant

[stuffmatters]

4. Makes people vote Republican

I know it's a seriously bad drug, but it does oddly parallel the effects of voting Republican for low info working people captured by
Fox News/Koch/Rove propaganda machine: "makes victims compliant and happy to say or do anything their captors tell them to...
it's victims lose their grasp on reality and often wind up with their bank accounts drained, their belongings stolen and a massive hangover." Yeah, that sounds pretty similar to the effect of voting Republican if you're in the 99%.

[dotymed]

8. I would not doubt that the NSA

has refined this drug and added it to our water/food supply. How else could they keep Americans so docile as to not
riot everywhere and demand justice and a fair government/political system?

on edit:

Remember "our" congress admitting that what we knew about PRISM was "just the tip of the iceberg?"

[BlueJazz]

5. I can think of a great punishment for those who make the drug.

[azurnoir]

6. There are actual medical uses for the drug though

it's used as an anti-emetic in surgical patients ie it helps keep you from barfing after surgery

[BlueJazz]

9. Good point....didn't know that.

[kas125]

11. I have taken it before, because it used to be sold in over the counter

sleeping pills. I haven't taken them in like 20 years, so I don't know if they still sell them.

[pscot]

7. Good God! They're using TV!

[Thor_MN]

10. Amateurs... Faux Snooze can do that through a TV set.