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28th January 2014, 11:02
By: Dustin Naef - MessageToEagle.com - You’re sitting in a cafe when an older woman approaches you with a piece of paper in her hands. There’s tiny writing on it.
She explains that she left her glasses at home and asks if you could read her the address written on it. You take the paper in your hand, and have to hold it close to your face to discern the words and read it back aloud.
Later you wake up in an alley. Your wallet and everything valuable you had on you is gone. You further discover that you made a substantial cash ATM withdrawal of your bank account. You have no memory of any of this…or the woman.
You’re at a night club and the most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen approaches and starts to flirt with you. When you’re not looking, she slips something into your drink. The next morning you wake up in a park beaten up and robbed. Your bank account has been drained.
When you get back to your apartment, you discover that everything valuable which wasn’t nailed down is gone: your stereo, your big screen television, jewelry. All missing.
You ask your neighbors if they saw anything suspicious last night, and they tell you no, only that they saw yourself and three other people carrying stuff out of your apartment and putting it into the back of a van. They tell you that you looked completely rational and normal, and thought you were moving with the help of some friends.
You have no memory of what you did last night, or who you were with.
When you think of the world’s scariest drug you probably imagine meth addicts and crazies on bath salts having psychotic episodes. But in Columbia there’s a drug called “scopolamine,” also known as ‘The Devil’s Breath,’ which is manufactured from a type of common tree that grows wild called the Borrachero tree.
People are saying it’s a drug that criminals use to erase your memory and take away your free will.
It sounds like one of Philip K Dick’s paranoid science fiction stories, but it’s real.
Under its’ effects, you become somebody’s docile slave and will carry out virtually anything they ask of you: sex, theft, murder, even suicide.
The criminal applications for something like this is almost unimaginable. But the ‘Devil’s Breath’ isn’t some new designer drug synthesized with chemicals, it’s actually been in use for ages.
When a Chieftain died scopolamine was given to all his wives and mistresses. They were told to go lay down in their master’s grave, and were compliantly buried alive alongside him.
Mothers still warn their children not to fall asleep under a Borrachero tree, because a faint whiff of the pollen alone is enough to give you strange dreams.
The drug scopolamine is extracted from the Borrachero tree’s seeds, and rendered into an odorless and tasteless white powder. It can be dissolved in liquids, sprinkled on food, or inhaled. It’s the ultimate drug of choice for a criminal predator.
"I had only a vague understanding of [scopolamine], but the idea of a substance that renders a person incapable of exercising free-will seemed liked a recipe for hilarity and the YouTube hall of fame," Duffy said.
Besides thinking up ways of how he could pull pranks on his friends using the drug “the original plan was for me to sample the drug myself to really get an idea of the effect it had on folks," he explained, but–
"By the time I arrived a few days later, things had changed dramatically. All elements of humor and novelty were rapidly stripped away during my first few days in town."
"After meeting only a couple people with firsthand experience, the story took a far darker turn than we ever could have imagined, and the Scopolamine pranks I had originally imagined pulling on my friends seemed beyond naive and absurd," Duffy said.
By the time Duffy and his team were wrapping up their news documentary, they couldn’t wait to get as far away from Colombia and this drug as possible.
What makes the drug so frightening is how easy it is to use on somebody.
In Columbia criminals blow scopolamine in the face of an unsuspecting victim, and within minutes they are under its effect.
Demencia Black, a Columbian street dealer featured in VICE-correspondent Ryan Duffy’s investigation, states that the drug turns people into complete zombies, and even after it wears off victims have no recollection as to what happened.
Read more and see video at http://www.messagetoeagle.com/devilsbreath.php
She explains that she left her glasses at home and asks if you could read her the address written on it. You take the paper in your hand, and have to hold it close to your face to discern the words and read it back aloud.
Later you wake up in an alley. Your wallet and everything valuable you had on you is gone. You further discover that you made a substantial cash ATM withdrawal of your bank account. You have no memory of any of this…or the woman.
You’re at a night club and the most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen approaches and starts to flirt with you. When you’re not looking, she slips something into your drink. The next morning you wake up in a park beaten up and robbed. Your bank account has been drained.
When you get back to your apartment, you discover that everything valuable which wasn’t nailed down is gone: your stereo, your big screen television, jewelry. All missing.
You ask your neighbors if they saw anything suspicious last night, and they tell you no, only that they saw yourself and three other people carrying stuff out of your apartment and putting it into the back of a van. They tell you that you looked completely rational and normal, and thought you were moving with the help of some friends.
You have no memory of what you did last night, or who you were with.
When you think of the world’s scariest drug you probably imagine meth addicts and crazies on bath salts having psychotic episodes. But in Columbia there’s a drug called “scopolamine,” also known as ‘The Devil’s Breath,’ which is manufactured from a type of common tree that grows wild called the Borrachero tree.
People are saying it’s a drug that criminals use to erase your memory and take away your free will.
It sounds like one of Philip K Dick’s paranoid science fiction stories, but it’s real.
Under its’ effects, you become somebody’s docile slave and will carry out virtually anything they ask of you: sex, theft, murder, even suicide.
The criminal applications for something like this is almost unimaginable. But the ‘Devil’s Breath’ isn’t some new designer drug synthesized with chemicals, it’s actually been in use for ages.
When a Chieftain died scopolamine was given to all his wives and mistresses. They were told to go lay down in their master’s grave, and were compliantly buried alive alongside him.
Mothers still warn their children not to fall asleep under a Borrachero tree, because a faint whiff of the pollen alone is enough to give you strange dreams.
The drug scopolamine is extracted from the Borrachero tree’s seeds, and rendered into an odorless and tasteless white powder. It can be dissolved in liquids, sprinkled on food, or inhaled. It’s the ultimate drug of choice for a criminal predator.
"I had only a vague understanding of [scopolamine], but the idea of a substance that renders a person incapable of exercising free-will seemed liked a recipe for hilarity and the YouTube hall of fame," Duffy said.
Besides thinking up ways of how he could pull pranks on his friends using the drug “the original plan was for me to sample the drug myself to really get an idea of the effect it had on folks," he explained, but–
"By the time I arrived a few days later, things had changed dramatically. All elements of humor and novelty were rapidly stripped away during my first few days in town."
"After meeting only a couple people with firsthand experience, the story took a far darker turn than we ever could have imagined, and the Scopolamine pranks I had originally imagined pulling on my friends seemed beyond naive and absurd," Duffy said.
By the time Duffy and his team were wrapping up their news documentary, they couldn’t wait to get as far away from Colombia and this drug as possible.
What makes the drug so frightening is how easy it is to use on somebody.
In Columbia criminals blow scopolamine in the face of an unsuspecting victim, and within minutes they are under its effect.
Demencia Black, a Columbian street dealer featured in VICE-correspondent Ryan Duffy’s investigation, states that the drug turns people into complete zombies, and even after it wears off victims have no recollection as to what happened.
Read more and see video at http://www.messagetoeagle.com/devilsbreath.php