Recently, a reader wrote me asking if I knew where they could get some scopolamine or extract. I assumed it was one of those alternative-type legal (for now) drugs like salvia divinorum, which I’ve writte about elsewhere. So I looked around, seeing if I could find any vendors or anything for it.

But there’s not a lot of information about it online. And what little there is so negative that it makes me wonder what this person expects to do with it. Looks like there has been a big problem with this substance in Colombia the past several years. From a Reuters article reproduced on Rense.com:

Colorless, odorless and tasteless, scopolamine is slipped into drinks and sprinkled onto food. Victims become so docile that they have been known to help thieves rob their homes and empty their bank accounts. Women have been drugged repeatedly over days and gang-raped or rented out as prostitutes.

[…] Most troubling for police is the way the drug acts on the brain. Since scopolamine completely blocks the formation of memories, unlike most date-rape drugs used in the United States and elsewhere, it is usually impossible for victims to ever identify their aggressors.

[…] Legend has it that Colombian Indian tribes used the drug to bury alive the wives and slaves of fallen chiefs, so that they would quietly accompany their masters into the afterworld.

Nazi “angel of death” Joseph Mengele experimented on scopolamine as an interrogation drug. And scopolamine’s sedative and amnesia-producing qualities were used by mothers in the early 20th century to help them through childbirth.

[…] There are so many scopolamine cases that they usually don’t make the news unless particularly bizarre. One such incident involved three young Bogota women who preyed on men by smearing the drug on their breasts and luring their victims to take a lick.

Well, at least those men got to lick a titty before being bamboozled. Hehe. Anyway, the always valuable drug info site Erowid has only a little information on scopolamine. They have a couple other links to articles similar to the one quoted above. Looks like it’s somehow related to datura and brugmansia. Also, here’s a short page on the Western medical use of scopolamine.

I’m hoping that person emails me back with info about positive (psychedelic) uses of this drug. If I get anything, I’ll post it here.