[3][4] It is native to Austria, the Baltic States, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Italy, North Caucasus, Poland, Romania, Transcaucasus, Ukraine, Yugoslavia.

[5] Fatur and Kreft note, in their recent article on the survival of folk knowledge concerning hallucinogenic Solanaceae in Slovenia, that S. carniolica is - ironically - now the least-remembered of such plants in its native land (Atropa, Hyoscyamus and Datura spp.

[6] Like the other Solanaceeous genera involved, Scopolia - once popular in the Pre-Christian and folkloric practices of pre-industrial Europe as a potent evoker of highly realistic and often frightening hallucinations - has been largely eclipsed in modern times by various less toxic hallucinogens (notably psilocybin-containing fungal species) evoking more lucid ASCs accompanied by fewer unpleasant side-effects (e.g. dry mouth, racing heartbeat and prolonged blurred vision caused by dilated pupils).

[6] Tropane-containing Solanaceae such as S. carniolica are, properly speaking, toxic, anticholinergic deliriants rather than ‘true hallucinogens’ and their frequently unpleasant and unpredictable effects can, on occasion, involve fatalities.

Another stated that they knew of a couple of cases in which people had taken the plant for its hallucinogenic effects and had, as a result, ended up spending time recovering from their foolhardy experimentation in psychiatric hospitals.