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Mom warns of common plant?s dangers
    #4823857 - 10/19/05 04:29 AM (18 years, 5 months ago)

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Mom warns of common plant?s dangers
Lawrence teen who consumed hallucinogenic moonflower seeds winds up in hospital

By Eric Weslander (Contact)

Sunday, October 16, 2005

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A Lawrence mother wants to warn other parents about the dangers of a hallucinogenic plant that can be found growing wild or in the garden.

Tina Grey said her 17-year-old son, Timothy McCawley, was hospitalized this past week after being poisoned by eating the seeds of a moonflower plant in an attempt to get high. She said her son spent a day at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and suffered hallucinations, vomiting and blurred vision, among other symptoms.

?It scared him pretty bad,? Grey said. ?He said, ?I?m never going to do that again.??

It?s a problem that?s surfaced around the country from time to time. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 14 children in Ohio reported becoming ill in 2002 after either eating moonflower seeds or drinking a tea made with them.

In Kansas, police occasionally are warned about it, said Eudora Police Chief Greg Dahlem, who responded to the incident earlier this week involving Grey?s son. But Dahlem said this was the first case he?d ever seen.

?People need to be aware of them because they are poisonous,? he said. ?You can?t be experimenting with this stuff.?

Grey said her son had run away from home last week, and she believes he ate four or five of the seeds Tuesday night with friends. Eudora Police got a call about 8 a.m. Wednesday from someone who saw McCawley acting suspiciously in the 800 block of Locust Street, and they arrested him because of outstanding warrants.

On the way to the juvenile-detention center, Dahlem said, the boy admitted eating the seeds in an attempt to get a hallucinogenic high. Dahlem said the boy seemed disoriented.

?He would ask an officer a question and the officer would answer the question. A minute later he would ask the officer the same question and say, ?Did I just ask you that??? Dahlem said.

Dahlem said the boy pointed officers to a place in Eudora where the flowers were growing wild, and officers destroyed them.


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Timothy McCawley, 17, was hospitalized last week after being poisoned by eating moonflower seeds, right, in an attempt to get high. He suffered hallucinations, vomiting, blurred vision and other symptoms, said his mother, Tina Grey.
Grey said the jail?s staff eventually took her son to the hospital, where he was treated with intravenous fluids and made to drink a fluid containing activated charcoal. She said he was released Thursday.

LMH officials confirmed that McCawley was treated at the hospital this week, but more detailed information about his treatment wasn?t available from the hospital Friday. Grey said at least one of her son?s friends was hospitalized, but that couldn?t be confirmed Friday by hospital officials or by Dahlem.

A government report describing the 2002 Ohio incident says the poisonings were associated with the species Datura inoxia, a plant with large white flowers that bloom at dusk.

The government?s report says symptoms of poisoning can happen within 60 minutes of ingestion and last for 24 to 48 hours. Some of the most severe can include hallucinations, seizure and coma.

Other effects include thirst, flushed face and blurred vision.

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Re: Mom warns of common plant?s dangers [Re: BaldCuban]
    #4823877 - 10/19/05 04:52 AM (18 years, 5 months ago)

"Dahlem said the boy pointed officers to a place in Eudora where the flowers were growing wild, and officers destroyed them."

what a world. :rolleyes: DESTROY THE FLOWERS! KILL THE TREES! NUKE THE WHALES! RAINFORESTS ARE THE DEVIL! ...WE HAVE TO KILL THE TREES!!!

:crankey: :cop:


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