Scopolamine | Yet Another Reason To Avoid Columbia

In small doses, the drug scopolamine is legally used to help control motion sickness or even combat Parkinson’s Disease, among other legal uses. However, this tropane alkaloid can have “muscarinic antagonist effects” in larger doses, according to Wikipedia. This means that scopolamine, which is also known as “burundanga” on the streets of Columbia, can cause dizziness, disorientation, hallucinations, stupor, loss of short term memory, heightened suggestibility and when given too much, death.

While commonly administered in a patch in its legal pharmaceutical forms like motion sickness and anti-Parkinson’s, on the fields of the Columbian drug war, larger doses of scopolamine can be slipped into a drink or puffed into a potential victim’s face. Considering alleged crimes committed by means of “zombifying” scopolamine in burundanga form, it comes as no surprise to know that one in three kidnappings worldwide occur in Columbia, as reported by VBS.TV.

Nerve impulses in the brain and muscles is slowed down with scopolamine

In its burundanga form, scopolamine is also viewed as a as a kind of “truth serum,” as the victim’s inhibitions are removed. Scopolamine is taken from chemical refinements of the flowers of the borrachero tree and seeds of the cacao savanero. Victims will likely comply when told to hand over credit cards and checkbooks or take our payday loans for their captor. Like the burundanga business card myth, there are a number of American urban legends surrounding burundanga, but sources say that such things are unlikely, because the scopolamine derivative must be taken by mouth or through the nose in a sufficient dose to produce the feared will-deadening effect.

Scopolamine as burundanga is no myth in Columbia

That’s what VBS.TV found when they traveled to Bogota, Columbia to investigate. Horrific tales of thugs using it to kidnap victims and extort money from their families, prostitutes administering the scopolamine derivative so they could rob helpless clients and even a case of someone allegedly killing a person while under the influence of burundanga have all been confirmed by medical and law enforcement officials. By the time the VBS.TV reporter tracked down a local dealer named Demencia, he wondered whether he and his videographer would have to take out a personal loan to fork over the expensive video equipment, at the very least.

Fortunately, however, as far as they can remember, Demencia didn’t take advantage of the VBS.TV crew.