Scopolamine in Colombia
SUMMARY: Scopolamine is a powerful sedative commonly used in robberies, assaults, and rapes in Colombia. It’s like GHB but worse. In this post, I tell a few scopolamine stories and discuss the urban legend facets.
Scopolamine, also known as Burundanga, is a powerful sedative extracted from the Brugmansia plant, which is native to Colombia. Scopolamine is commonly used as a central nervous system depressant in patch form to treat nausea, seasickness, motion sickness, and less commonly in treatments of Parkinson’s symptoms and in anesthesia. Scopolamine is starting to attract attention for its potential in treating addiction, specifically nicotine.
Scopolamine comes with a slew of side effects ranging from dry mouth and impaired speech, amnesia, excitement and restlessness, to hallucinations and delirium. In years past it was used in conjunction with painkillers to induce Twilight Sleep, which relieves pain during childbirth while keeping the patient awake. Scopolamine was studied by the Nazis and a few intelligence agencies during the Cold War as a truth drug. In very rare cases, scopolamine is used as a recreational drug for its hallucinogenic side effects. The chemical extract is highly toxic, so non-medical use is dangerous. The prescribed uses call for as little as 330 micrograms. … Read more
Ryan and Rosa in Bogota
SUMMARY: I had some unpublished pictures from when my brother and a Peruvian ex-girlfriend visited. Not much story to tell, except for a quick dittie on me taking my brother to a brothel for the first time. And previously unpublished pics.
My brother helped me move here. We met Damien and went to a club the first night. Not much story to tell.
Damien also knew an American guy in Bogota. We met him and his friends the next night at one of the hottest clubs in Bogota – Penthouse. Damien’s buddy and all his buddies were Fulbright Scholars teaching at Universidad Los Andes. We got drunk off beer and aguardiente on the roof.
My brother and I’d been drinking for almost two weeks by that Sunday and Ryan was scheduled to fly out early Tuesday morning. So we took it easy Sunday and then get drunk all night Monday until his flight. He planned to get so drunk that’d he be able to sleep on the planes all the way back to STL. … Read more
Sauna in Peru
SUMMARY: I describe a day at a sauna in Peru. A sauna is a bathhouse / brothel.
I got really drunk Friday night and woke up horribly hung over. My penis was so hard it hurt. I loaded up some internet porn and relieved myself. I spent a few hours editing the previous post, Pooping and Machu Picchu. When I was done, I needed porn again. I made the rounds through black, asian, latina and realized I didn’t want to masturbate to internet porn. I needed sex. … Read more
Camaná: Bender at the Beach
SUMMARY: I go to an Arequipa beach town, Camaná, for rest and relaxation. Instead, I become a drunk idiot and violate women.
Camaná is a small beach town two hours from Arequipa. It’s only sunny at the beach in the middle of summer (January and February in the Southern Hemisphere). So this small beach town is a seasonal hotspot from now until March. Our bus was set to leave at 9am. Damien and I missed it. We took a taxi for, ironically, the same price. And the taxi arrived faster.
Damien and I rolled into the town plaza around 1pm and booked a hostel. We had ceviche at a place named Don Arturo. The ceviche at the beach is, as one would imagine, unequivocally better than that in the city because the fish is fresher. Still drunk from the night before, I started drinking again. … Read more
Contributed Story: Chasing Women in China
SUMMARY: Featured story from an American studying in China. Our Man in China experiences a brothel, a drug called ‘king’, and more Chinese women.
This story was contributed by an American studying in China:
I travelled to mainland China to meet Jason, a Chinese-born fraternity brother from America. I stayed with him at his parents’ place in Ganzhou. In my 1000-page China edition of Lonely Planet, this city of 600,000 isn’t even listed in the index. It was a five-hour train ride from Hong Kong.
Jason picked me up at the train station. After a few minutes of catching up, he suggested we go to the red light district of Ganzhou. “What? Red light district?” … Read more
Wild Weekend in Bogotá
SUMMARY: I meet Dennis for a weekend in Bogotá. The weekend is wild. Sections include The City, The Play by Play, The Women, The Aftermath, and Pictures. Long story.
TEASER: So this should bring us to where I left for the brothel. Your favorite hapless romantic had been dreaming and drooling over the women all weekend long. This was my last night and there was only one kind of place open. Plus, Dennis had made out with four women by this time. If we were competing, I’d be losing 4 – 1. A perfect storm developed of my insecurities in losing the game combined with a strong desire for these Colombian women, combined with the fact that I probably wouldn’t have been able to go to bed at 2 am after two nights drinking until dawn.
The taxi took me to the curb and pointed out the door. A mustached man dressed in a suit came to the cab and opened the door for me, gesturing me in politely and confidently. This mustached man came to be my primary caretaker in my time here. Resembling a Latino version of Borat, he ushered me into the place, sat me down at a booth, and brought me a Heineken. … Read more
