ABC Radio National  All In The Mind      Date/Time 11 Dec 2013
1:11:14am In Carlton in the early 70's, Angel's Trumpet was a
craze. I took it twice. I experienced vivid hallucinations,
e.g..rolling cigarettes without tobacco, catching imaginary
birds, plus spatial distortions where close things seemed far
away,and vice versa. Side-effects included almost complete
amnesia, and blurred close-vision that lasted several days. I
woke up after the first experience in bed fully clothed, but
with everything I was wearing turned inside out!A friend took it
and, despite our attempts to stop him, drove off in his car. He
came round two days later in a town in country NSW with some
unknown hitch-hiker's backpack in his car.A friend, who didn't
take drugs of any kind began experiencing severe dissociative
psychotic episodes after moving into a house with a Datura tree
outside the kitchen window. When the landlord cut it down, the
episodes stopped completely, to the amazement of her shrink, who
had diagnosed a serious cond