Everybody that knows Vancouver knows it has a major drug problem. Heroin, crack, cocaine, weed, ecstasy and LSD are all openly traded and consumed on the streets. Special prescription pharmaceutical items one may desire can easily be obtained provided one has the right connections. This has resulted in colleges, high schools, and even elementary schools becoming havens of substance abuse. Anything you want is always a phone call away.

In Vancouver, GHB (the date-rape drug) is also used in abundance. At some parties, people stick it up their ass for a tranquil buzz, while others secretly pour it in an unsuspecting persons drink to obtain easier than normal access to their private parts. I’ve heard countless stories about poor unsuspecting women that have been buggered proper after falling victim to a well-mannered man that has covertly powdered their drink.

Until the other day, I was under the impression that GHB was the worst. That was until I watched Colombia’s Devil Breath, a fantastic documentary about Scopolamine by the folks at VBS.tv.

Apparently, Scopolamine has the ability to render a person incapable of exercising their free will while remaining completely coherent. For example, if I drugged you with Scopolamine, I could ask you to give me all the cash in your bank account and request that you help me remove all the valuables from your apartment, and you’d be cool with it. The next day, you won’t remember a thing.

Initially, when VBS.tv asked Ryan Duffy - the dude who did the documentary – if he would go down to Columbia and dig into the story, he was excited. He even spent time brainstorming the various ways he could transport some of the drug back to the states and use it in different ways on his buddies. “The original plan was for me to sample the drug myself to really get an idea of the effect it had on folks,” Ryan says. “The producer and camera man had flew down to Bogotá ahead of me to confirm some meetings and start laying down the groundwork. By the time I arrived a few days later, things had changed dramatically. Their first few days in the country had apparently been such a harrowing montage of freaked-out dealers and unimaginable horror stories about Scopolamine that we decided I was absolutely not going to be doing the drug.”

Scopolamine is nasty, and so are the murders, robberies and hard-comings it propagates. Shit in Vancouver is bad, however, what’s going on in Columbia will blow your mind.

Watch here.