Salvia – or salvia divinorum to give it its full name – is an inexpensive, easy to obtain and, in many cases, legal alternative of marijuana. While it is illegal in some states it remains readily available in others and is still very much the flavor of the moment in its native land of Mexico, Salvia is gaining the attention of the authorities and of the government.
So why has Salvia escaped the legislator’s pen so far despite it being touted as being more potent in many respects than Marijuana? Probably because of a lack of awareness from those that would seek to ban it.
Salvia is a hallucinogen, inducing an out of body experience and a sense of traveling through space and time. The experience lasts for a much shorter time than other hallucinogens like LSD or PCP and is not known to have caused any deaths at the time of writing.