Could not agree with PD more on this one.
I stupidly ingested datura in my teens when my parents were away on vacation. I was itching to get high on something other than the e's, mushrooms, bud and opium I had at hand. Big mistake....
Some weeks earlier, a friend from a nearby town had procured a cordial drink made from datura leaves. Apparently half a glass was good and a full glass was insane. Being a bit of a noob and wanting to try something new, I drank 100ml of this cordial concoction on my own and the rest is history...
The trip...
I remember smoking cones with friends who had died in a car crash a few months earlier. I also had tea with my grandmother, who came to the door during my trip. She had been deceased for about 1 year.
It was more real than life itself! I could not decipher reality from the trip, I only remember the beginning and I'm missing about 12hrs worth of memory from that day/night. I was found pretty much naked in the botanical gardens some 4kms from my house the following morning, in a delirious state. The police said that someone had reported me being there on their morning walk. There were no other reports of me being seen by anyone between dusk/dawn so who knows what I got up to
The young girl next door later told me that she came over while I was under the influence. She said I was 'talking to people who weren't there' before I walked out the back door and wasn't seen for the rest of the night.
I sure learned my lesson and suggest not trying it.
A friend of mine has been studying everything about this plant (including brugmansia), it's history of use and it's chemistry for years. I believe he is going to try vaporizing extracted tropane alkaloids some time in the future to figure out baseline doses etc. I admire his research into the history of use, how to use it and persistence but, there is no way I'd go back there or suggest that anybody try this substance.
Some say you need to build a connection with the plant before ingesting it...
Each to their own...
I ticked the datura box on my long list of drugs to try but, wish I never did.