Six adult family members were admitted to a hospital (five were admitted to the intensive care unit) in Maryland after eating a homemade stew. Their illness symptoms included: hallucinations; confusion; severe dilation of the eye pupils; rapid heart rate. Upon admission to the hospital, two persons were unconscious. The group had eaten a homemade stew that contained jimsonweed (Datura stramonium), a plant that can cause anticholinergic-type poisoning. The stew consisted of potatoes, garlic, onion, tomato, curry powder, and leaves from two plants that were growing in the yard. One plant was confirmed to be mint. The meal preparer did not know what the other plant was, just that it was available in the yard. A hoticulturalist identified the plant as jimsonweed. Jimsonweed grows wild and is used as an ornamental plant in the USA.