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- In Plant Chemicals: Healing, Hallucinogenic, and Harmful: Plant Chemicals: Healing, Hallucinogenic, and Harmful transcript
Datura wrightii, or sacred datura, was, as its name suggests, sacred to a number of native peoples throughout its range from northern Mexico through the southwestern United States. It is closely related to and sometimes confused with jimsonweed (Datura stramonium). And the two plants have similar properties: both…
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- In datura: Major species
innoxia), and sacred datura (D. wrightii), have long been used by various peoples, including Mexican Indians, in their religious ceremonies.
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