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Morning Glory Seeds Making Trippy Comeback

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Posted on May 3, 2006

Teenagers are rediscovering the hallucinogenic potential of the flower seeds. Internet advice sites abound, and hospital trips are up.

Washington Post:

They have such whimsical names as heavenly blue, crimson rambler and pearly gates, and delicate blooms that crawl quickly up trellises.

But when morning glory seeds aren’t planted—when they are instead ingested—whimsical thoughts can crawl through altered minds with kaleidoscope-like visions.

And teenagers know this.

Once popular in the hippie era of the 1960s, morning glory seeds as a hallucinogen seem to have sprouted once again. Local gardening shops have noticed their seed stocks depleted by adolescent hands, and poison control centers in the District and its suburbs have received calls from hospitals with patients experiencing adverse reactions, or bad trips, from the seeds.

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By Chill, May 17, 2006 at 9:30 pm #
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“vomiting, nausea and abdominal pain.”

“This sounds like a simple yet effective way to discourage the practice.”

... You should be disgusted with yourself.  Preventing people from tripping by poisoning them.

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By seeford, May 3, 2006 at 10:52 am #
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From Wikipedia’s entry on the topic:

To discourage morning glory’s use as hallucinogenic drugs, some commercial seed producers have started treating seeds with a chemical that will not wash off. This chemical has been known to cause vomiting, nausea and abdominal pain. Typically some form of a warning or notice is printed on the package if seeds have been treated.

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This sounds like a simple yet effective way to discourage the practice.

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