BURUNDANGA, SCOPALAMINE
light yellow, odorless, tasteless powder extracted from a tree native to South America.
STREET NAME
-Scoop
EFFECTS OF THE DRUG
-Immediately intoxicating
-Affects the central nervous system
-Victims are seldom aware of their condition
-Produces amnesia
-Feeling out of body, looking down on yourself
-Destroys willpower, makes victims highly susceptible to suggestion
HISTORY OF USE
- Originally produced to facilitate robbery in South America by the Cali Cartel
- Used the CIA in experiments into truth serum and mind control techniques from the forties until at least the late nineteen seventies
- Some conspiracy theorists believe it is used on abducties by government agents when they conduct 'alien adbuctions'
- It has also been used in substance related rape