This news story was released with the headline 'Teens overdose on jimson weed', but upon closer reading I cannot tell if the overdoses were fatal, when they happened, or if they happened all at the same time.
Three Spokane teens have recently overdosed on the seeds of a hallucinogenic plant called jimson weed.
Health officials want to warn teenagers and their parents about the possible dangers of jimson weed now that the school year is over and many children are left home alone.
Spokane Regional Health District spokeswoman Julie Graham said people should be wary of jimson weed’s toxicity.
Jimson weed is also commonly called loco weed, stinkweed and a host of other slang terms such as angel’s trumpet and Beelzebub’s Twinkie. The plant’s scientific name is datura stramonium, a member of the nightshade plant family.
So that is all the information we are given. No names, no dates, just 'Three teens' and 'recently'. And it's summer, time for the media to run scare stories on legal highs only your teens know about.
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