Scopolamine is not a rare alkaloid. It can be found in Henbane/Hyoscyamus niger, a common weed in the western US. One of the dreaded witch herbs of the dark ages. It can be absorbed through any moist membrane. One method was for a "witch" to put a some on the end of her broom stick and "ride" the broom to other worlds. Rumors of people being robbed and/or assaulted are generally overblown.
Scopolomine is one of the tropane alkaloids that occurs naturally in many plants of the nightshade family (Solanaceae). In low doses, it can be used for treating seasickness and as an effective aid in smoking cessation. In high doses, it can be used as an almost perfect "truth serum," and produces a semi-zombie altered state in which subjects can seem normal, although free will is totally abolished. In very high doses, it is an hallucinogenic deliriant.
The corporate media (certainly including Wikipedia) ALWAYS discounts its power as an agent that abolishes free will and which can be used as a perfect "truth serum."
Abducted hostages can be induced to tell all they know by the administration of this drug. So torture (which does not produce this effect) is never necessary. This is just one more of those little secrets that we are NOT supposed to know about.
Well blues, it's main action is amnesia. It basically deletes short term memory. It is used for surgery, with the mistaken idea that if you don't remember the pain then you didn't feel it. If you want to learn more about it look up some of the work done by R.E. Schultes or Dr. Duke.
http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/
from Dr. Dukes website. Do we really need the drama?
If I were a betting person, I would bet that not one of those references in that huge list divulges the true power of the SECRET remote-control- human-drone effect of scopolomine. And I think there's a reason for that.
You just have to scroll way down past all the text and photos to find the video. This video is also available directly on YouTube, but YouTube/Google requires you to fill out a form in a special screen "for your own protection":
I prefer not to provide any personal information to Google. I also have information from personal sources, but they are somewhat "shady," and would not be pleased if I were to post information referring to them.
If my assertion regarding scopolomine is incorrect, then no harm is done. On the other hand, if it's correct, people under the drug's influence can be made to do anything, commit mass murder, admit to criminal guilt, tell all secrets (no torture required), etc.
Funny how my post appeared at 22.Jul.2012 00:51, and the first pooh-pooh at 22.Jul.2012 02:01; that's just 2 hours and 2 minutes apart. The video is from YouTube/Google, but requires credentials to be accessed, and the U.K. Daily Mail video is simply a repost that can be viewed directly. So why question it's source?
if it is true I want to know about it, but you have to give better sources than youtube and "somebody told me".
I am not "pooh-poohing" (I hate that term), but I am forcing you to give me more information before I will make an opinion. If you cannot or will not give more information, then it makes you seem unbalanced to present such far fetched claims.
So you have to do better if you want to convince people of this "danger".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopolamine