Scopolamine Menace PHOTO CREDITS So you woke up today in an empty apartment that looks like yours with no memories of the previous day’s events? Your school fees gone, Mpesa, Mshwari and bank accounts emptied but you can’t recall when and how? Interesting, you might be the latest victim of the ‘devil’s breath’. Human beings have a free will to decide what, when and how to or how not to do things. Medical hypnotizing takes away this free will while extracting some information from a subject and treats some medical conditions. The difference here is that the subject is informed prior and consents to the whole exercise. On the other, Scopolamine or the devil’s breath as it is locally known in Columbia, is a lethal drug that is used mostly to block the subject’s conscious and completely eliminates the subject’s freewill to think independently. Experts have recorded that the drug blocks the free will, reduces memory and even kills making it the perfect weapon for robb...
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