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There is constant misunderstanding about the effects of Salvia and it is often referred to as the ‘Legal Marijuana’ or the ‘New LSD’. Neither of these are accurate descriptions of the drug nor of its side effects. Most of this misunderstanding comes from politicians, lawmakers and journalists all eager to jump on the bandwagon and get a new story or some new legislation. Unfortunately for the users of Salvia this strange zealousness by those in positions of power mean it’s likely to be completely banned pretty soon.

As you will no doubt remember from some of my earlier articles, Salvia is not a ‘new’ invention, nor is its use as a mind altering hallucinogen particularly novel. It might have been novel centuries ago when the Mazatec Indian Shamans took to using it as a tool to help in their spiritual adventures, their healing and as a divining tool. The strong hallucinogen is cheap and easy to get; in most states it’s completely legal to buy, sell, own and use Salvia.

The long term effects of Salvia are largely unknown, and there is no proof that there are any side-effects at all. Of course there is no proof that there aren’t, either.

Users of Salvia have been subject to testing from interested academics and medical folk. Deidre Houtmeyers, executive director of Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center’s Comprehensive Addictions Program (SECAP) in Boston, has performed a number of these interviews. She reports young users being disturbed by what is undoubtedly a psychedelic trip. Some teens related tales of flying pigs and fairies wearing green dresses. Others have been decidedly more disturbed and unsettled by the experience, describing it as frightening and nauseating. It seems like it’s one of those things that you just have to try yourself.

If you are going to try out Salvia yourself, then be sure to do it sooner rather than later: the panic attack sweeping the nation will likely see Salvia banned soon.

If you read the (largely hysterical) press reports about Salvia then you will know that it is being the ‘new Marijuana’ or the ‘legal LSD’; it is also, apparently, a massive threat to not just the youth of today but also society as we know it. If you were to take these reports at face value then Salvia is the single reason for all America’s ills. It is the anti-panacea that was invented by Satan’s own hordes of goblins when they were feeling in a particularly mischievous mood.

Virginia is one of three states that have (so far) made the drug illegal this year. There are a total of 17 states considering a ban, and 11 more where it is currently outlawed. The reaction continues to amaze me (and I’m not alone in this) because there’s so little to dislike about Salvia. Not only have detractors found it impossible to prove to be dangerous or harmful in anyway, but there is also no evidence that it is addictive. There is no particular evidence that it’s a nice experience either, and people who use it regularly are few and far between.

One shop in Virginia said of Salvia:

“We never really had any habitual people that would be using it all the time come in and buy more. I think it was just more of an experiment thing. I think people will just buy it online now.“

And indeed the drug can still legally be bought online as long as the recipient is not in one of the few states that have taken the misguided step of banning it.

There doesn’t seem to have been a rush to stock up on stocks of the drug and it’s users are not out in force opposing the band. What irritates people most is the continued degradation of our society into one where everything has to be controlled for us. We are not allowed to make our own decisions about Salvia and, though not individually important, this is completely indicative of the birth of an over-protective nanny state.

If you’ve ever mistyped a word into a search engine, but managed to find your way to your desired location nonetheless, then you will appreciate that the publishers at the Official Ares website get a variety of interesting and often amusing permutations on the spelling of their name.

It is interesting to try and ‘reverse engineer’ some of the misspelling that take people write. Are they misspellings, or is it more of a case of conditioning due to location or culture

Spellings like Arez – often Hispanic sounding but, perhaps surprisingly, predominantly from French speaking areas (including Canada). The visitors typing Aris and Aeres are more evenly distributed geographically and this might suggest genuine misspellings.

Aries, Aires, and Areas are all ‘real’ English words and it’s entirely possible that people have typed these hoping to find something other than Official Ares site. It’s also possible that people are so used to typing words like this that their fingers just run away with them.

When you see a typo like Aers, which is quite obviously, even to my untrained eye, a common misspelling where the central two letters are swapped, you’ve got to think that, in this case, there is the possibility that this is a genuine mistake rather than any conditioning.

A lawmaker from Massachusetts, Vinny deMacedo, first heard of Salvia only recently. Once he saw (through the wonders of YouTube) the effects of the drug, he decided to introduce a bill to ban Salvia in the Bay State. Whether the worst bit about all this is that Vinny deMacedo has an impressionable mind or whether it’s that he decides on which bills to push from an evening watching YouTube (which is, of course, factual documentary at its best) is open to debate. We just think it’s the giveaway sign of another clueless politician jumping on the ‘Ban Salvia’ bandwagon.

Vinny D went on to impart some words of wisdom:

Certainly, if you were driving a car (on Salvia) that would be a bad thing

Personally I drive cars on the road, but I think I understand what he’s trying to get at. It still doesn’t make much sense, though: if I were trying to drive while under the influence of alcohol then that would be a bad thing too. It doesn’t mean that people are clamouring across the country to ban alcohol. If I drive while I’m asleep then that’s a bad thing too. You get the point. Banning the use of Salvia while driving seems completely sensible, and I would applaud any such law. Banning something because it can potentially be dangerous in the wrong hands is just ridiculous. Guns, anyone?

The first arrest for the possession of Salvia occurred last month. Police in North Dakota (where Salvia was made illegal last August) arrested a man who had, by his own admission, an interest in spiritual searching. The gentleman faces up to five years in year for his indiscretion. While I would have to do some searching, I’m confident that I can pull up examples of where child molesters were treated more leniently.

The recent outbursts of opinion from people over the dangers of Salvia are unwarranted and alarmist. It all smacks of a 1982 ‘Big Brother’ situation where lawmakers are deciding what is best for us. If we don’t agree with them then it’s off to the Big House we go. What a shame.

A recent trip to Patong was interesting in many ways. Not only was it an absolutely fantastic holiday – and one which I would really love to repeat – but there was something very interesting happening with locals of the opposite sex. Trying to understand Patong girls, it seems, is something that Western travelers have been attempting for years now without much sex. My girlfriend and I did a spot of ‘people watching’ while we visited the island and it was very interesting to see the visitors trying to have their way with the Patong girls. What the men usually didn’t realize was that trying understand Patong girls was a mission impossible, and the only ones that would ‘have their way’ was the girls themselves.

When trying to understand Patong girls, I have to ask what is it about these ladies that so enchants the Western man? I guess it’s the apparent interest from the girl in that man that makes her alluring and within reach. One must remember when trying to understand Patong girls that ‘I love you’ and ‘you are a handsome man’ are phrases dolled out with frightening regularity. It is entirely possible that the same words pass those lips until one Western man falls foul of the trap. The end result? Marriage.

Growing concern about Salvia means not only that parents are increasingly having ‘heart to heart’ talks with their children, but also that some states are going out of their way to ban it. The states are having to take this along step because, as we know, Salvia is entirely legal under federal US drug law.

The US DEA has started down the long road in making Salvia a controlled substance under US Federal law; it is now listed as a “drug of concern” on internal lists.

There are apparently around 3,500 video clips of teens smoking Salvia on YouTube; this exposure in the media popular media has been driving up popularity. The increased press interest in the hallucinogen has also meant an increase in sales from the legal Internet vendors like SalviaDragon.com. Some vendors, reports suggest, have been holding what are essentially ‘closing down’ sales in an attempt to dump their stock before trade is outlawed.

Despite the alleged panic by vendors (in fact invented largely by alarmist popular media) , Salvia definitely remains for sale over the Internet, in smoke shops and even in gas station shops. This availability of course is only in the States that still allow the hallucinogen: only 8 have managed to ban or restrict its sale or use to date.

Parents, lawmakers and politicians are asking why Salvia has not yet been banned. A better question to ask may be why the sudden furore? Salvia has been around for many years and has been perfectly accepted until recently. There is no medical proof that it has any adverse effects and, in fact, some medical researchers are of the opinion that it might actually help research into degenerative illnesses like Alzheimer’s’. Does this sound like a heinous drug that should be banned? Of course not. Does it sound like something that politicians can get some easy points for if they convince parents of its evils? Of course it does.

Salvia is a nasty smelling substance – of that there can be little doubt. The Salvia I bought over the Internet came through the post, and as I’m in one of the states that still allows the use of the drug it is all completely legal.

The first step in smoking Salvia is in getting the stuff out of the vial in which it arrived; this was no mean feat. After getting the lid off I poured a small sample into a pipe. Once in the pipe I lit the black Salvia crumbs and, in my first comparable experience, starting smoking Salvia.

I took the smoke in and held it for as long as I could. I exhaled. Then waited. I didn’t have to wait for long, since smoking Salvia is one of the quickest ways to get it into your system.

About 10 minutes after I started smoking Salvia I was back to normal, but I’d taken a trip through hallucinogenic lane. This really is a weird experience, but one which I’m sure I will be repeating (not because I have a particular affinity to smoking Salvia but because I’ve got loads of the stuff to use up!).

If you’re looking for a psychedelic experience then try smoking Salvia. Nothing else compares.

Apple’s recent attempts to convince developers to charge more for the apps that they try to distribute through the app store seems to have fallen on deaf ears: a recent poll suggests that over 71% of apps developed for distribution through the app store will be available completely for free.

Further bad news for Apple from the same survey includes the conclusion drawn analyst Gene Munster (of Piper Jaffray) that the average cost of those apps for which a charge will be made will only be $2.29. This is a far cry from the $10 per app that Apple mentioned in the keynote speech and which, clearly, it was hoping for.

The reason for Apple’s urgency with regards to the price charged in the app store is fairly obvious: their revenue model revolves purely on a cut of 30% of the revenue made from those apps sold. Even the marketing boys at Apple realize that 30% of nothing is still nothing. In return Apple provide the infrastructure of the app store and provide the means to distribute to the paying customer.

So a slight loss may be on the cards if Apple forges ahead with the concept of the app store as it is. This should not worry Apple too much and even Munster doubts that the free apps will hurt the overall benefit.

The Apple iPhone games is perhaps one of the most exciting little gadgets conceived. While the concept of a mini computer is not new (the Treo and Blackberry, among others, blazed this particular trail) what it does off is the ultimate sexiness in gadgets.
And Apple are soon to release the new model of its iPhone games, if rumors and market conditions are to be believed. A key catalyst to this rumor is the complete lack of iPhone games availability in the online shop, and a definite paucity in brick and mortar establishments that would usually carry the device.
While this might seem like a huge error on Apple’s part it most definitely is not. For a start Apple don’t make this kind of error, and secondly it is easy to see the rationale behind the move: choke supply to increase demand before the new iPhone games release. When it comes people would be fighting in the streets (Apple would no doubt love that coverage).

I’m someone who really loves to party in the evening and when I go away on vacation I love to really let my hair down. I’m a clubbing girl who loves to dance and have fun.

I’ve just returned from Phuket and what can I say? Fantastic place. What I really loved about it, apart from the wonderful beaches and the perfect food (the food was too good: now I have to diet!), was the great variety in the Phuket nightlife. One hour you can be stood in a Thai-style club dancing with the locals around a small table, listening to a great band playing fun music and doing covers of classic favorites; next minute you can be listening to popular commercial hits in a bar with cheap drinks and great holiday makers; but the end of the night you might be on a sweaty dance floor listening to Jude Jules (honestly!) lay down some hardcore clubbing tracks. This is Phuket nightlife

How’s that for variety? I spent a week sampling the Phuket nightlife and I can’t say that I regretted one bit of it. It’s certainly not as bustling as Bangkok or somewhere similar but, in all honestly, that’s not always a bad thing. Sometimes it’s nice to have a bit of a rest (but not too much, mind!). Besides there’s definitely enough to the Phuket nightlife to keep anyone (even me) busy.