14 DAY TRIAL // Late last week, on Friday, a homeopathy conference in Handeloh, Germany, ended in sheer chaos when, after having ingested an illegal hallucinogenic drug, the participants started seeing things, talking crazy and just aimlessly walking around.
Reports say a total of 29 people had to be hospitalized because they were experiencing breathing problems, elevated heart rates, and even cramps.
However, getting the conference-goers in an ambulance and rushing them to the nearest hospital was no easy feat. It took over 150 emergency responders and medical staff to gather them around and make sure that they got the care they needed.
Luckily, all of the 29 homeopathy aficionados eventually came to their senses. Although hallucinating and not exactly aware of where they were and what they were doing, they didn't get themselves in any trouble and so nobody was injured.
An investigation into the incident is now ongoing
For now, authorities can't say whether the conference-goers knowingly and willingly consumed the illegal hallucinogenic drug, identified as the LSD-like 2C-E based on urine and blood tests, or if maybe they were exposed to it without realizing it.
An investigation is ongoing and law enforcement officers hope to soon get to the bottom of this peculiar occurrence. Since they don't know exactly what happened, they haven't arrested anybody just yet.
Torsten Passie, a member of the narcotics commission in Germany, suspects that the 29 men and women all consumed the drug unknowingly. This would explain why they all reacted as badly as they did to it.
“It must have been a multiple overdose. That does not support the view that the people concerned took the hallucinogen knowingly,” Torsten Passie said in an interview, as cited by Inverse.
“One has to assume that people were not told about the substance, its effects and risks before taking it,” the German official went on to say.
Now that they have recovered, the conference-goers are being interviewed by authorities in the hope that one of them might remember something that could help the police solve the case.
