I don't know much about psychedelics but how does this compare to things like salvia and DMT where people lose conscious control of their bodies?
I once used datura almost every day for around 3 or 4 months. Shit is absolutely crazy, nothing at all like other psychedelics like salvia and DMT, it's a different feeling entirely. Full on delirium is a strange, horrible experience. Lower doses are very dark and surrealistic.
I have pure hyoscyamine I was prescribed for a medical problem, but I don't take it because I don't take any anticholinergics at all any more, even at low doses.
World's Scariest Drug is bullshit though, article titles like that always seem stupid to me. Scary how?
The experience isn't super scary because it feels normal, it's like you are doing normal day to day shit except everything is different. Imagine your mental state being totally normal, as if you were doing any daily activity, and yet you are running around naked screaming and jumping up and down. People on datura don't usually feel fear, at least not when they should. It's called delirium for a reason. You feel emotions but they are usually not appropriate to the situation, you act crazy, feel out of your body, see crazy shit that isn't there (animals, monsters, buildings, people, etc.).
One time I was walking around late at night on datura and I saw a swing set except it looked to my intoxicated brain like a bunch of bodies hanging from ropes off the edge of some weird alien tree. And my reaction wasn't fear, I just looked and was like "whoa, are those bodies?" And my friend said he didn't think so but wasn't sure. And then we went to go check it out. It was interesting at the time, not scary. Because on datura I never once felt fear, most just dull interest and weird disconnectedness.
And it's not terribly scary as far as being dangerous as far as I know (except you lose control of your actions 100% while on it). I've done a whole lot of drugs, and honestly the only ones that scared me were crack and meth. But my behavior on the drug was what scared me, not the drug itself. Drugs aren't scary.
tl;dr - Datura= crazy shit. "Scary drug" article title still stupid.