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 Jimson weed, called momoy, was used by the 
native people of my region of coastal southern California, the Chumash, for 
religious purposes. It  looks like Georgia O'keefe's famous beautiful 
paintings of the flowers. It is hightly toxic, though some of my high school 
classmates survived (barely) ingesting it for its hallucinogenic effects. The 
Chumash shamans studied for years which roots to pick, how to grind and dilute 
them, and administer them to youths undergoing puberty initiation. People got 
visions of their "dream helpers" if they were lucky, sort ot guardian 
spirits that gave them extra power. No one but a shaman would mess with it and 
youths didn't go off and do it on their own. Shamans took it more often and so 
got very powerful. Katy Meigs Jolon at Last Farm Central California USDA Zone 8/9 | ||||