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Your comment makes me think that the Latin speaking world likes to attribute bad plants to the devil.

There's a drug that Colombians call the Devil's Breath[1]. Which is believed to be scopolamine[2], which had previously been used as truth-serum. The rumors go that the drug makes you "zombified" and compliant, willing to do whatever is suggested to you. It's my understanding that the drug is extracted from belladonna[3] though it's hard to know what is actually true about the rumors. Vice has a video about it[4], though I haven't had the opportunity to watch it yet.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2015/sep/02/de...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyoscine

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atropa_belladonna

[4] https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/worlds-scariest-drug-colo...



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