The Scariest Drug of All - Scopolamine

[Peter Lemkin]

Magda,

It had/has some medical applications. I don't know if it is still used in obstetrical practice, but it was used in the 1950s on a routine basis. Women became "scopy" on their way to the delivery room in hospitals. One of my good friends screamed threats at her husband on the way, "I'm going to get you for this, J..." She didn't remember doing this later on.

There seems to also be some use on astronauts on space flights, which I did not explore.

It can be administered by sniffing, as well as by ingestion by mouth and by injection. What is most interesting is the dissociation of consciousness from normal appearing activity under its influence. People do not appear to be drugged. In that regard it resembles what often occurs during, and after, an attack of temporal lobe epilepsy where the person can do a number of very complex activities with no apparent awareness or memory of doing such actions.

People under its influence become extremely suggestible, far more so than with LSD. It could be used to hypnotize people to commit crimes (assassinations?) who would not remember what they had done.

Adele

Hmmm....an almost perfect mind-control drug....and likely even better when 'mixed' with some others and/or hypnosis et al.