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Mysterious Plant Chewers
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My friend did his erasmus exchange on the Island of Reunion (lucky shit - beats being sent to Lille for half a year anyway) and he was telling me about some drug the locals chewed upon and had an effect similar to acid/weed mixed together.
Apparently you could take it a thousand times and you would trip, come down and carry on as normal but every now and again people would have a bad trip on it and never recover again. They were walking around completely zombified.
Now I'm wondering (2 years later) if he was talking complete shite which I fell for.... or if this substance actually exists.
Anyone have any ideas?
For those with poor Geography, Reunion is one of the french overseas départements in the Indian Ocean. Nice place I hear...:D
Apparently you could take it a thousand times and you would trip, come down and carry on as normal but every now and again people would have a bad trip on it and never recover again. They were walking around completely zombified.
Now I'm wondering (2 years later) if he was talking complete shite which I fell for.... or if this substance actually exists.
Anyone have any ideas?
For those with poor Geography, Reunion is one of the french overseas départements in the Indian Ocean. Nice place I hear...:D
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As for Kava Kava, its possible but doesnt really fit the effects that you describe, that and I thought it only grew in the pacific region, I might be wrong though.
It could be some type of mushroom but I'm not sure why you would chew that.
The only substance I know capable of making people fall into a completely zombified state is a mixture of blowfish toxin among others in a mixture called Zombie's Cucumber, but that was mainly used in Haiti by Shamans etc etc.
There must be hundreds of kinds of plants that will have some mind-altering effect on you, but I doubt it very much that, after using that substance hundreds of times, one random time you would just fall into a zombified state. Doesn't seem to add up.
As for what it could be, Lion's Tail apparently grows around those regions which is a relaxant similar to cannabis...possibly?
I really haven't got a clue!
Yep, that sounds like the stuff he was talking about. I must ask him the name next time I see him.