The next Marijuana:Salvia?

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Salvia Divinorum

Salvia divinorum, also known as Diviner’s Sage,ska María Pastora,Sage of the Seers, or simply by the genus name, Salvia, is a powerful psychoactive herb.
Salvia divinorum has become increasingly well-known and more widely available in modern culture. The rise of the Internet since the 1990s has seen the growth of many businesses selling live salvia plants, dried leaves, extracts, and other preparations. During this time medical experts and accident and emergency rooms have not been reporting cases that suggest particular health concerns, and police have not been reporting it as a significant issue with regard to public order offences.
Media stories generally raise alarms over salvia’s legal status, headlining, for example, with not necessarily well supported comparisons to LSD. Parental concerns are raised by focus on salvia’s use by younger teens—the emergence of YouTube videos purporting to depict its use being an area of particular concern in this respect.

Indigene to Mexico and still grown there, “Mexican mint” is in general smoked but can as well be masticated or made into a tea and drunk.


Called nicknames like Sally-D, Magic Mint and Diviner’s Sage, salvia is a psychodelic drug that gives drug users an out-of-body feel of traveling through time and space or merging with nonliving objects. Unlike hallucinogens like LSD or PCP, nonetheless, salvia’s effects last for a shorter time, in general up to an hour.

It’s not the same as the ornamental garden plant known as Salvia.

No acknowledged deceases have been assigned to salvia’s use, but it was recorded as a factor in one Delaware adolescents suicide two years ago.

Sites such Salviadragon.com(down now ofcourse :D) tout the product with images like a waterfall and rainbow and include testimonials suchlike

“It might sound far fetched, but I experience immortality.”

San Diego State University last yr reviewed more than 1,500 students and found that 4 percent of participants reported using salvia in the last year.

Brandenburg’s bill would make salvia and its extract controlled substances in the same class as marijuana and LSD.

Florida state Sen. Evelyn Lynn, whose committee planned to study the Salvia bill Tuesday, said the drug had better be criminalized.

“I’d rather be at the front edge of preventing the dangers of the drug than waiting until we are the 40th or more,

” she said.

Well Well..Will Salvia be the next Marijuana or not? :)

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