The active ingredient is Scopalamine which in low dosage is used to treat motion sickness. There is plenty of information and also misinformation about it on the net:kansaicanuck wrote:
That little white flower in ...Columbia, Brazil or ? Think I seen a vice show on that. Yeah, I did something that was so unlike me and it was scary. I doubt that was what it was but now that you bring it up...... Come to think of it there was a Brazilian guy there who I have suspected it might have been from all along. Didn't even equate that till now. Humm.. who knows??
Scopolamine has marked amnesic effects, and is used in Alzheimer’s research. Mostly though, it is used at very low doses to treat motion sickness, usually though a transdermal patch. Then there are stories of it being used in Nazi Germany as an interrogation tool, and also in the middle ages by witches. “The degree to which any of this stuff is true is unknown,” says Curran. “There’s a lot of myth.”
However the CIA admits the following; “No such magic brew as the popular notion of truth serum exists.” And they note that even under the best conditions they will elicit an output contaminated by deception, fantasy, garbled speech, etc.; but they do note a tendency to make subjects drowsy and confused and that has may make them believe they have revealed more than actually did.
“You get these scare stories and they have no toxicology, so nobody knows what it is,” says Val Curran, professor of pharmacology at UCL’s Clinical Pharmacology Unit. “The idea that it is scopolamine is a bit far-fetched, because it could be anything.” Val Curran has is an expert on the neurochemistry of memory, cognition and emotional processing.http://sciencevibe.com/2016/04/05/the-i ... mbify-you/
That amnesiac quality obstetricians once prized is probably the source for the “zombie drug” myth. “You wait for a minute for it to kick in and then you know you own that person,” a Colombian drug dealer told a Vice reporter. “You can guide them wherever you want.” But though scopolamine in your drink might leave you dopey or knock you out, it won’t rob you of free will, rendering you an ambulatory servant of your assailant. Sure, it’s powerful, but not supernaturally so.http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/colu ... reputation