UP early this a.m..415...and a headline story in the Florida Today newspaper...about teenager overdosing from the angel trumpet tea he made...said he found recipe on Ebay....Here's the story.
TITUSVILLE - It may be called Angel's Trumpet, but it's a devil of a way to get very sick a 17 year old has learned.
David O'Bryan Taylor, known as Bryan, is at Florida Hospital in Orlando waiting to find out why his heart is misfiring and whether he'll need a pacemaker.
About two weeks ago, he brewed a batch of tea from the leaves or flowers of an Angel's Trumpet to get high. The Titusville teen said he followed directions he found on the Internet and accidentally overdosed.
"I'm scared to death for him," said his mother, Gloria Ryle. "They wake him up at night because his heart skipped seven beats and he doesn't even know it."
OT Teenage Boy Overdoses on Angel Trumpet Tea
Oh wow so sad.
HI allison..just back from gym at 720.....light mist here..but gorgeous weather ahead for all of us this weekend...That is so sad....teenagers don't always use sense and sadly , many don't have parents that have much sense either...surely hoping the best for him..bob
I have never heard of doing this!
My god, kids will always do something odd to get high.
This sounds like a dangerous gamble though!
So sad!
I saw this on our news tonight Bob and saw picture of young boy in the hospital so said.
I never heard of such a thing to do. I had a couple of these plants down our other home. Glad we did not take them. I'd be afraid with our dog.
Allison
yes Allison it is sad...they are such wonderful plants...and one does have to boil the leaves and all...but teenagers do that kind of thing...hope others will see the story and be wary...bob
Aha! I am one of a few teenagers(for a while yet at least) with a bit of sense: I like plants to look at! I'm still anticipating the day that I get a visit from the police because of the plantlights upstairs or the cleome looking like some other plant.
I should, but I don't feel sorry for the bugger at all.
Kenton
KEnton..couple years ago someone cut off and took my cleome blossoms....i put a sign up...ARE YOU THE THIEF?....I will always be a teenager and I do feel badly that he has to have a pacemaker...I suspect all of this is a result of...or lack of....direction from parents...and peer pressure...Been there....felt that way....
True, Less "stupid" at that point and more "misdirected."
I live near an elementary school with attached park, and need be a bit careful. Little girls are always picking flowers and I'm always running outside to put the fear of God into them and tell them that it is OK to ask, and that I want to GIVE them flowers.
No one here has heard of Brugs, so I feel that it is not a problem. Daturas are known and grown pretty widely, Ricinus is completely unknown, but I will certainly not grow Cleome in the front yard... Or maybe I will...
Kenton
Kenton..grow the cleome in the front...i like it for a "show" with other things...lots of folks here plant the castor bean cause it gives a tropical look...don't think they know much about it....and, of course...we have so many "snow birds...misnomer this year..too warm...'mud birds'?....that they want to plant "like we did up north"....and om gosh...i go cutting everything down...mostly cause they have nothing else to do....but back to the "snow queen"...plant lots of it...i have had mine only come back one year..guess too hot for it..
meant THEY GO cutting everything down...lol
I have a lot of edible-flowered plants in my yard, but I've got the neighborhood kids trained to always ASK before they pick & eat.... Even if it's something unmistakably edible, like a pansy, there's a chance I might have had to spray the rose next to it for blackspot! I'll put my pair of brugs out back -- I'm planning to put tropical looking plants in a bed by the deck this spring to go with my new little bananas -- and that should cut down on the chance that random kids may see & pick them. I did decide that it was just too much of a risk to put foxgloves back in the orchard area, as my backyard neighbors have young kids... Foxglove look tasty to me, LOL, and I know better!
LOL at the idea of a police raid... I think some you know that my Chicago apartment got "raided" once because of the aquarium lights... Nobody expects to find a 55G and a couple of 10G tanks in a tiny studio apartment, plus I occasionally like to burn incense (not to cover up any waccy baccy odors, just because I like the smell of patchouli), so I couldn't really fault whoever "tipped off" the police. The officer took one look over my shoulder & figured out where the bright light was coming from, apologized, and left. It's just as well I wasn't growing any Cleome inside!