Back in the day when that movie came out I looked and looked for that thing. I asked every head shop in SoCal and SanFran and no one had ever seen or heard of anything like it. My guess is that it was a fabrication from the prop guys - a one off that was never really designed to do anything other than look cool on screen, which it did.
Let us declare nature to be legitimate. All plants should be declared legal, and all animals for that matter. The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.
— Terence McKenna
All my posts are hypothetical and for educational/entertainment purposes, and are not an endorsement of said activities. SWIM (a fictional character based on other people) either obtained a license for said activity, did said activity where it is legal to do so, or as in most cases the activity is completely fictional.