Angels Trumpet is a highly toxic plant that you will see all over TV.
They are poisenous to animals.
Angel’s Trumpets are in the Solanaceae family, therefore it’s in the same family that petunias, tomatoes and potatoes. Hailing from South America, remember that these beauties love and need damp conditions with warm days and of course cool nights. Nevertheless, caution is highly recommended: Angel Trumpets are extremely toxic. And we can say that the Angel's trumpet or well known as Brugmansia are extremely poisonous (all part of the angel trumpet). The plant is smoked or ingested just for its narcotic effects and can be deadly poisonous and some people who have done this with the plant are no longer with us, so don’t try it. The use of angel trumpet as a landscape plant is banned in some municipalities. The effects caused by ingesting these plant are that you may feel so intense (known as a “high”), similar to have taken an overdose of Dramamine. You'll loose consciousness and began to know something is wrong, After that you would have difficult to breath or walk. The effect can last as long as your body endures the toxins, some people who have been on these conditions talk about their experiences and they agree with this effects that are exposed in this page, some have stopped breathing about three or three and a half hours later, and they were taken to an hospital. Some people in the period of detoxification become really aggressive and in some cases they had to be tied to their beds or tables; even with persons with no violent temper. The hallucinogenic effect in humans experimented by ingested or smoked the angel trumpet plant are similar to those of the belladonna, a plant extremely and deadly poisonous, the effect is that dilate the eyes for the atropine contained in this plant. It may be similar when you do drugs with barbiturates.
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