I do have an odd mystery about datura, something I thought I saw in a footnote under a poem by Kipling, but have been unable to find since. The poem is "La Nuite Blanche" in which he describes someone having a very heavy trip - things climbing up the wall etc. Poem part Then a Creature, skinned and crimson, Ran about the floor and cried, And they said that I had the "jims" on, And they dosed me with bromide, And they locked me in my bedroom -- Me and one wee Blood Red Mouse -- Though I said: "To give my head room You had best unroof the house." The footnote suggested that the reference to "jims" on, was to jimsonweed, which I understand had travelled to India. But I have not found anything to back that up.
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