What is Salvia?
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.
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April 21st, 2008 at 9:08 pm
[...] U.S. legislators are becoming increasingly agitated by the availability and the popularity of the hallucinogen Salvia. [...]
April 21st, 2008 at 9:19 pm
[...] with more and more state legislators seeing its banning as the source of valuable political points. Salvia’s effects last for little over an hour and it is not known to have ever caused any deaths. It does impair [...]
April 21st, 2008 at 9:27 pm
[...] to do so. He claims the move has largely been a seen in a positive light, with only a few hardcore Salvia advocates wishing him moderate ill-will. This, he says, is an inevitable part of his [...]
May 8th, 2008 at 9:22 am
[...] or “Sally D”, is a member of the Sage family that originates from Mexico. Salvia Divinorum contains Salvinorin A which, when taken, induces hallucinogenic trances similar to those experienced by users of LSD; the [...]
June 18th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
[...] has joined the ranks of states that want to see Salvia banned; Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius has signed the [...]