Please exercise extreme caution with Datura seeds.   

Bad reactions and fatal overdoses are a common occurrence when taking Datura seed.  

Datura plants and Datura seeds are known for how hazardous they are to ingest despite the potential benefits as well as uses it has. Despite the potential risks, many people want to go through a Datura experience anyway. While it’s strongly advised that you don’t take the risk, it’s still good practice for you to learn about the plant anyway.

This article will discuss the properties of the Datura plant and have a deeper focus on the properties of Datura seeds. 

Quick Summary  

Taking any part of the Datura plant, including Datura seeds, is incredibly hazardous. While some people say that smoking Datura and using Datura seeds is safer, it’s still risky. The potential benefits of taking Datura seeds are outweighed by the risks. 

What are Datura seeds?

Datura seeds are the seed of the datura plant which is a type of flowering plant from the nightshade family of plants. Datura plants smell sweet and have trumpet-shaped flowers. Datura plants are famous for their potential use as poison as well as medicine.

Datura plants grow around the world in tropical and temperate climates. They can even be found in weird places and conditions, like nearby landfills and on the sides of highways.  

Datura is a plant that’s used for its psychoactive effects. There are nine known species of Datura which include Datura innoxia, Datura metel, and Datura stramonium. These plants are also known as Jimsonweed, Moonflower, Devil's Weed, and the Devil's Trumpet. 

The seeds, leaves, flowers, roots, and stems of Datura plants all have a history of being used. They’re either ingested, smoked or used as an ingredient in skin ointments. 

What happens when you take Datura seeds?  

Datura is a plant with variable concentrations of alkaloids which makes it incredibly difficult to predict the effects of using it. The effects of taking Datura seeds last a very long time. It’s been noted that the effects can last for up to two days and feel distressingly overwhelming. 

The effects of taking Datura seeds include dry mouth, pupil dilation, feelings of electricity coursing through your body, energy changes in your body, weightlessness and a sense of being weighed down by gravity. There’s also the possibility of dissociation from reality which can feel incredibly frightening if you’re unlucky.

One of the most distinct and notable effects of Datura seeds is that your hallucinations seem normal, even if they’re really weird. Inanimate objects will come to life and talk to you while absent friends or dead family members may appear in front of you. All of this will seem normal to you while on Datura.

The experience of using Datura seeds can be described as having a "waking dream". Datura trips don’t typically cause hallucinations of colorful geometric patterns and everything usually appears somewhat normal. Then the weird things mentioned above happen but you feel as though all of that is normal at the time. 

Hallucinations involving your senses of touch, taste and smell are common when using Datura seeds. A common hallucination is having a phantom cigarette in your hand. This is where you see and feel a lit cigarette in your hand, even if you don’t smoke. These hallucinations are incredibly realistic and people have been reported to search for phantom cigarettes that they think have disappeared but really never existed in the first place. 

Some potential visual effects of taking Datura seeds are distorted or unrecognizable reflections, color changes, environmental movements and distortions, snake-like patterns, and sudden flashes in your peripheral vision. 

Other side-effects you need to look out for when taking Datura are paranoia and agitation. Depersonalisation as well as amnesia and memory loss are also reported side-effects of using Datura.

What are the potential benefits of taking Datura seeds?

While Datura seeds have not been extensively studied for their potential benefits, many have reported that their Datura experiences have been mind-expanding and eye-opening. Despite the potential for uncomfortable or even frightening trips when taking Datura seeds, many people believe that the insights they gained from their Datura experiences have been valuable for their personal growth and healing.  

Aside from personal growth, Datura seeds have some potential medicinal uses. Datura has potential use in anti-inflammatories, respiratory decongestants, painkillers as well as sleeping aids. Please understand that this means there are chemicals inside Datura seeds that need to be isolated before they can be used safely, without risk.

Some researchers believe Datura seeds and Datura plants in general have the potential to help treat Alzheimer's disease and even cancer. Much more research is needed to confirm this though. And once again, you need to isolate the chemicals that can potentially help with these diseases need to be isolated and taking Datura seeds straight can possibly kill you.

What are the risks of taking Datura seeds?

Taking Datura seeds is incredibly risky and should be done with extreme caution. 

Many healthy people have died from ingesting Datura seeds as a result of respiratory paralysis or heart failure. It’s difficult to recommend a universally safe dose of Datura seeds and even doses as small as 100mg of dried seeds have been known to be lethal. What’s really dangerous is the inconsistency of it, as while some people die from eating just a tiny amount of dried seeds, others have taken more and survived. 

You should know the symptoms of Datura poisoning. These symptoms are dry mouth, difficulty as well as pain when swallowing, dilated pupils, double vision, hot feeling, dry skin, difficulty walking, delirium with hallucinations, amnesia, delusions and difficulty urinating.

It’s considered completely essential to have a sober sitter present if you choose to experiment with Datura seeds in order to monitor your response to the plant as well as to keep you safe. Your sitter should check your heart rate and body temperature while being completely prepared to take you to the hospital if things go south. 

While having a sitter is considered a non-negotiable when taking Datura seeds, it’s also highly recommended that you have multiple sitters if you’re on a Datura trip. This is because Datura trips can last up to days and you should frequently let your sitters tag out for each other. Datura users have been known to become violent so having more than one sitter is safer if you ever become too hostile.

Datura Experiences

You can read about peoples experiences with Datura seeds over at Erowid. Here's a small selection: 

"Other drugs you eat and you're like, 'hey, that's trippy' On jimson weed, you're like 'hey, that's normal.' You NEVER know that you're hallucinating... it's just like a waking dream. Not recomended...unless you're a shaman"

First mental effects were like being stoned and I sat on the side of the road leading up to the school to enjoy it. Memory is effected from this point on and I can only give flashes as I remember things. After a blank spot I got back to the dorm with pie and drink but mouth was too dry to swallow either. I discovered a frighteningly shrivelled penis without urination capability when I went to the bathroom as well as eyes without near focus capability. These two things set me worrying and for the rest of the day things took a cold and lonely menacing character. It was about 10:30am.

I still do not know what happened to my friend but apparently he didn't feel anything and drifted off to chill with some other friends, totally unaware of my situation. So negative introspection and isolation were in order and I wandered off to the school sports field.

"On the way, and whenever I was walking, my foot seemed to slip through an oil patch with a nasty jerk and I would closely inspect the ground for this oil patch but would not find it. Somehow I registered that because my eyesight was affected by the seeds maybe I could not see the oil patch, that the oil patch might not be real did not occur to me. And so it was with my hallucinations throughout the day, I would take it for granted that they were real, but if it were proven unreal it simply added to the negative menacing backdrop to the whole scene. I would rather attempt to find the reality of the hallucinations than admit that something was seriously wrong with my world.The next memory is of a gigantic network of insect populations crawling into and out of a shadow which fell across a painted concrete wall. The image persisted for a long while until a banging noise interrupted my reverie and I realised I was actually sitting on the grandstand watching people on the sports field. That kind of thing would occur too, I would lose awareness and float inside a perception, somewhat pleasant, until it broke and the cold loneliness would be felt stronger with each return of it. The closest thing I've experienced to it is delerious thoughts during sickness or fever, but on a bigger scale. My opinion is don't try Datura, try something else. The rewards are not worth the effort and danger. I thought the book was most excellent, but I will never go through that cold loneliness to get to it again."

"The aftereffects of this stuff are wicked. I couldn't see anything clearly for about a week. I also felt strange for almost a month. It was like a month long acid trip. I was having minor hallucinations for weeks."

Is Datura illegal?

Surprisingly enough, despite how potentially hazardous they are, Datura plants are legal in many places. 

Datura is not regulated by the federal government in the United States, but it is controlled in several states. In Australia, Datura is a Schedule 2 substance, and it is illegal to possess and sell in Brazil. In the UK, Datura is technically covered by the Psychoactive Substances Act, but it is unlikely that this would be enforced. In Canada, Datura is completely legal. Access to psychedelics like Datura can be difficult, and some online communities and guides exist to help people safely purchase these substances.

What is the safest way to take Datura?

You can consume Datura by chewing its seeds, smoking it, brewing it into tea, or even turning it into skin ointment. Every part of the Datura plant has some amount of psychedelic compounds.

Smoking Datura is considered the least dangerous way to consume Datura but it’s by no means completely safe.  

Despite any preparation you take or method you use, Datura is still a dangerous substance. Every method you can use to take Datura has been linked to bad trips, hospitalization as well as death. 

The amount of psychoactive alkaloids in Datura plants vary wildly from part to part as well as from plant to plant. This makes measuring how much you need to take very difficult. Be extremely cautious if you’re taking Datura in any form.

FAQs

• Are Datura seeds safe? 

No, consuming Datura seeds is not safe and is extremely hazardous.

• Are Datura seeds illegal? 

In many places, Datura plants and seeds are completely legal. In others, they’re somewhat controlled and regulated.

Final Thoughts 

Datura seeds are considerably more risky and dangerous than other psychedelics. The potential benefits of taking Datura seeds really aren’t worth the health hazards and risk of an overdose. Our advice is to proceed with extreme caution.