Beauty and beast

1995/04/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Biologia

The excellent flower image can be as beautiful as dangerous. This has been considered by the Maitland City Supreme Court and has managed to ban the plant known as “Trumpet of the Angel”. Its original name is Brugmansia x candida. Several young people from the city of Maitland know perfectly the characteristics of the infusion that is achieved with the cooking of the plant itself and its leaves.

In fact, for years it has been used as a drug throughout Florida as it is easily found in the streets and gardens of houses. However, considering the events of last year, it has been considered of low importance to silence the sound of the trumpet. In the hospitals of Maitland last year, 112 young people had to enter, all of them overdosed with Brugmansis or Angel's trumpet.

Two hours after the heavy hallucinations died. The city's Supreme Court report reveals that young people achieved the same effect as any other drug by cooking the leaves of the Brugmansia flower and drinking in infusion. Due to the damage to the brain and the madness suffered by young people in hallucinations, the Tribunal has banned the planting of new Brugmansias.