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INDIANAPOLIS -
Emergency room doctors are warning of a dangerous new way to get high. Teenagers are smoking a flower that may be growing in your backyard.

It grows in about any Indiana field, even backyard gardens. It is a weed and some young people are abusing it.

"The real name of it is Datura, but also, a lot of other names, like Jimson weed, Devil's Trumpet and stinkweed," said Dr. James Mowry, Indiana Poison Center.

Kids have been known to chew the seeds here. This plant is deadly from its roots to the tips of its leaves I have one in my yard love the flower and smell.

Just a reminder

This was in our news about 2 weeks ago. It is becoming epidemic apparently. So very sad. It truly is a beautiful flower - I grew it a few years ago.

SO DID I NO MORE