living the high life

metal-vipera:

You know what this is? This is Datura stramonium. Aka The Devils Trumpet. It’s called that for a reason. This is one of the most powerful psychedelics on our planet. It will fuck up your mind and you will lose all touch with reality.

Datura stramonium was used as a mystical sacrament in both possible places of origin, North America and South Asia. People still provide the small green fruit of Datura during festivals and special days as offerings in Shiva temples. Although some devotees smoke Cannabis as a devotional practice during religious festivals like Shivaratri (the Night of Shiva), they do not smoke Datura, whose effects can be unpredictable and sometimes fatal.

Native Americans in North America, such as the Algonquin and Luiseño have used this plant in sacred ceremonies.

In the United States the plant is called jimson weed, or Jamestown weed; it got this name from the town of Jamestown, Virginia, where British soldiers were drugged with it while attempting to suppress Bacon’s Rebellion. They spent eleven days generally appearing to have gone insane.