The robbers that turn their victims into 'zombies': Paris gang 'blow powerful Devil's Breath d

[donnay]

Hmm...wonder if this drug is used in the US?

The robbers that turn their victims into 'zombies': Paris gang 'blow powerful Devil's Breath drug into their faces to send them into a trance-like state'

By Simon Tomlinson for MailOnline
Published: 06:06 EST, 2 September 2015

A Triad-style gang suspected of using a powerful Colombian drug known as 'The Devil's Breath' to send victims into a zombie-like trance before robbing them has been arrested in Paris.

Two Chinese women, aged 42 and 59, and a man have allegedly targeted dozens of people by blowing the hazardous substance – related to deadly nightshade – into their faces on the street.

Within minutes, the victims are said to fall into a hypnotic state 'under total sway' of their attackers, with one victim handing over £73,500 in valuables and cash alone, French investigators said.

Scopolamine – known in Colombia as 'The Devil's Breath' and considered one of the most dangerous drugs in the world – causes people to lose their free will and, at high doses, can be fatal.

It completely blocks the formation of memories, which means victims have absolutely no idea what has happened to them and stand no chance of identifying the people targeted them.

The CIA are believed to have used it as part of Cold War interrogations, with the hope of using it like a truth serum.

However, because of the drug's powerful chemical makeup, it also induces strong hallucinations which can leave victims unable to speak. At very high doses, it can be lethal.

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[wizardwatson]

I read up on this months back.

Scopolamine is a scary drug. And it's the existence of things like this that makes me suspicious of the corrupt governments all the more. As this is a perfect drug for getting "lone wolfs" to do pretty much anything you want.

And people who say "would you support the death penalty if you had them on camera" should read about this drug and understand that "mind control" is most definitely something the government is quite familiar with.

[CPUd]

VICE did a doc about this. They rode with a guy who showed them where to buy it, although they didn't try it.

[donnay]

Allopathic Birthing History In All Its Shining Glory

In the 1930's, X-rays were used on pregnant women. It was later discovered that these gave the unborn children cancers, and the practice was stopped.
In the 1940's through the 1960's, morphine and scopolamine were administered successively to induce "Twilight Sleep". It was believed that this would change the experience of labor forever, by eradicating pain. It merely produced amnesia afterward, so that mothers had no recollection of the traumatic events, and the drug furthermore caused women to lose self-control. Women were routinely placed in straight jackets and strapped down to beds, in order to stop them from hurting themselves. It was common for doctors to leave the new mothers strapped to beds during the drug-induced psychoses, screaming in terror for hours at a time -- sometimes laying in their own feces and urine.
In the 1960's, the drug thalidomide was given to pregnant women, which resulted in infants who were born without arms and legs, and others with more random deformities. Thus, it too was eventually stopped.
In the early 1990's, Cytotec (misoprostol) was used to induce labor in women who previously had C-sections. This resulted in thousands of women with ruptured uteruses. This practice was abandoned in 1999, and the drug is now used for abortions.

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[dannno]

[donnay]

More Flashbacks:

'Devil's Breath' Drug Scopolamine Used By NASA and CIA
"Devil's Breath" branded the world's most terrifying drug has a number of alternative uses.

By Nicholas Edmondson
May 17, 2012 17:18 BST

The "Devil's Breath" drug scopolamine has been used by NASA to counter the effects of motion sickness.

The hallucinogen was recently brought to the public's attention by a documentary aired on Vice.com, which saw reporters travel to Colombia to see its deadly effects.

The film charted the use of the drug in the world of organised crime, where users are left in a zombified, highly suggestible state.

Scopolamine was given the name "the Devil's Breath" in an allusion to voodoo and black magic, as dealers say they can blow it into the face of a victim and put them under their control.

However, the drug has been used for some time, in significantly smaller doses, by Nasa for the treatment of motion sickness.

When mixed with dexedrine to form the substance scop-dex, the drug is administer to people training in environments with altered gravity, which frequently causes extreme nausea.

Nasa guidance on its reduced gravity student flight opportunities programme states: "Historically 60 percent of first-time student flyers in the reduced gravity programme experience significant motion sickness, including nausea and vomiting. However, when students carefully follow the instructions of the flight personnel and use the recommended dosage of scop-dex, this motion sickness rate drops to 15 percent or less."

The drug is very dangerous outside of strict controls, with the top legal dosage set at .33mg. A dose of just 10mg would be expected to cause a coma and then death.

The CIA and secret police around the world have tested and studied the drug as a tool for interrogation, due to its powerful suggestive effects.

Scopalamine has also been found within date rape drugs. In June 2008, more than 20 people were taken to hospital after taking tablets that were thought to be rohypnol, but actually contained scopolamine.

The drug has also been found to decrease the secretion of fluids in the stomach alongside its mental effects, which has led to its use for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome, spastic muscle states and Parkinson's disease.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/scopolamine...medical-342346

[donnay]

Scopolamine as "Truth Serum"

Early in this century physicians began to employ scopolamine, along with morphine and chloroform, to induce a state of "twilight sleep" during childbirth. A constituent of henbane, scopolamine was known to produce sedation and drowsiness, confusion and disorientation, incoordination, and amnesia for events experienced during intoxication. Yet physicians noted that women in twilight sleep answered questions accurately and often volunteered exceedingly candid remarks.

In 1922 it occurred to Robert House, a Dallas, Texas, obstetrician, that a similar technique might be employed in the interrogation of suspected criminals, and he arranged to interview under scopolamine two prisoners in the Dallas county jail whose guilt seemed clearly confirmed. Under the drug, both men denied the charges on which they were held; and both, upon trial, were found not guilty. Enthusiastic at this success, House concluded that a patient under the influence of scopolamine "cannot create a lie ... and there is no power to think or reason."14 His experiment and this conclusion attracted wide attention, and the idea of a "truth" drug was thus launched upon the public consciousness.

The phrase "truth serum" is believed to have appeared first in a news report of House's experiment in the Los Angeles Record, sometime in 1922. House resisted the term for a while but eventually came to employ it regularly himself. He published some eleven articles on scopolamine in the years 1921-1929, with a noticeable increase in polemical zeal as time went on. What had begun as something of a scientific statement turned finally into a dedicated crusade by the "father of truth serum" on behalf of his offspring, wherein he was "grossly indulgent of its wayward behavior and stubbornly proud of its minor achievements."11

Only a handful of cases in which scopolamine was used for police interrogation came to public notice, though there is evidence suggesting that some police forces may have used it extensively. 2, 16 One police writer claims that the threat of scopolamine interrogation has been effective in extracting confessions from criminal suspects, who are told they will first be rendered unconscious by chloral hydrate placed covertly in their coffee or drinking water.16

Because of a number of undesirable side effects, scopolamine was shortly disqualified as a "truth" drug. Among the most disabling of the side effects are hallucinations, disturbed perception, somnolence, and physiological phenomena such as headache, rapid heart, and blurred vision, which distract the subject from the central purpose of the interview. Furthermore, the physical action is long, far outlasting the psychological effects. Scopolomine continues, in some cases, to make anesthesia and surgery safer by drying the mouth and throat and reducing secretions that might obstruct the air passages. But the fantastically, almost painfully, dry "desert" mouth brought on by the drug is hardly conducive to free talking, even in a tractable subject.

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[tod evans]

Link to Erowids page

[donnay]

Sirhan, Sirhan

[timosman]

Sirhan, Sirhan

[timosman]

VICE did a doc about this. They rode with a guy who showed them where to buy it, although they didn't try it.

[Jamesiv1]

Useful drugs are useful.

Reminds me of Jason Russell, the "Invisible Children" guy and maker of "Kony 2012" video





Well-executed flying leap at 1:45. I give it a 9.5

[pcosmar]

"mind control" is most definitely something the government is quite familiar with.

People that know that are generally classed as crazy.