Patricia M. Murret writes in the Gazette, Officials: Jimsonweed turned potato stew into poison stew:
Health authorities confirmed Friday that the six Gaithersburg residents who were admitted to a hospital Wednesday with hallucinations, nausea, and heart palpitations were poisoned after they ate jimsonweed.
Also, Steve Hendrix writes in the Washington Post, Noxious Weed Sickens Six Who Ate Stew:
The belladonna alkaloids found in jimson can cause serious neurological effects and can be fatal in high doses. The plant, which has long been used, and misused, as a medicine and intoxicant, is readily found in farm fields, Anderson said. It is more unusual for the weed to crop up in a suburban garden.