Salvia - Buy Salvia Divinorum

Salvia berry is a super food is a food that satisfies most or all of our body’s requirements for nutrients and minerals. While it is not recommended that any one food — super food or otherwise — makes up a majority of your daily diet, it is a very good idea to eat some of these types of food in order to cover all the bases in terms of the nutrients that you take into your system. The more the nutrients the better, to many extents.

Clearly any super food that delivers more nutrients and minerals per unit weight than others is a better bet for you in terms of an addition to your diet. This is the reason that the acai berry is become so very popular in recent times. The acai berry is harvested in the depths of the Brazilian rain forest and is then shipped in varying forms to the rest of the world. Harvesting the acai berry is hard work and distributing it even harder. As a super food, though, the acai berry is absolutely number one on so many lists. If you have to choose just one super food, then you would be wise to consider the acai berry very carefully indeed.

When Salvia Divinorum is used as a recreational drug it is most commonly smoked. The Mazatec shamans that use it to find their spiritual side and for spiritual healing eat the raw leaf – sometimes they even drink it. So which is better? The ‘modern’ way of smoking it, or the more traditional way of chewing, eating or drinking a blended version of Salvia?

The disappointingly vague answer is that neither is particularly better than the other, and which is preferable at any one time depends a lot on what you want to get out of the experience.

Smoking the Salvia leaf gives an almost instant reaction. You get a vivid high and a quick comedown. Eating or drinking the leaf gives a much milder high – probably there will be no vivid hallucinations at all – but it does last for quite a bit longer. The Mazatecs are not interested in getting high and seeing faeries, you understand; what they really want is greater spiritual insight into the world around them, a greater feeling of affinity with the Universe in which they live.

On the negative side, chewing leaves requires a lot more Salvia than would be required with smoking to even get the feeling of a high. We’re talking 20 times more, so it’s not a small difference. Dried leaves will be, well, dry, and every form of the leaf is extremely bitter. This goes to back up the idea that the Shamans really do not do this for fun, but as a means to an end.

If you do not like smoking then eating Salvia may be your own option but it is, by modern standards, a very wasteful exercise.

As with anything related to Salvia, you will never know until you try, so why not try both methods on successive days and see if, with all other factors taken into account, you prefer one to the other.

In years to come, students of multi-level marketing will look upon Monavie — a type of acai juice — with an interested gaze. They will consider Monavie as a case study on how not to run an business.

Firstly we have the fact that Monavie was marketed in a pretty misleading way. There was very little acai in the juice blend at all, while the claims of the products manufacturers was that acai would cure everything from cancer, diabetes, arthritis and Alzheimer’s. Now we know that it can be beneficial to suffers of all of these afflictions, but to claim that it will cure them outright is simply a lie.

Next on the agenda is the price. How Monavie expects to be able to survive in a world where its nearest rival — Amazon Thunder — is around half its price is simply a mystery. Monavie must know something we don’t! Unfortunately for them they didn’t think to tell their customers, though, and many more people choosing the superior Amazon Thunder.

Monavie is not only critcized for having a poor quality product, they have also been investigated by the FDA because of suspected dodgy business practices; the management team at Monavie are no stranger to investigation, either.

There are plenty of other options out there if you are looking for acai juice.

An article in the San Fransisco Chronicle caught by beady eye recently; predictably, my interest was not for the right reasons. The piece – A Salvia divinorum horror story – was as biased and uninformed as most of these pieces usually are. There’s no surprise there, then, and this wasn’t the reason that the piece got my heckles way up. This piece, ladies and gentlemen, is a badly disguised piece of scare mongering.

The author writes about how dosing – the practice of administering recreational drugs on an unsuspecting user – is becoming a problem, with Salvia being the cause of this problem. This is absolutely not true. As the author says earlier in the article, dosing was being carried out by proponents of LSD who were desperate to get their ’straight’ friends to trip out, man. That had absolutely nothing to do with Salvia Divinorum then, and I’m not entirely sure how it is related now.

The article sites one example of a woman who was a victim of ‘dosing’ when someone slipped some Salvia in her Marijuana joint. This sent her a bit trippy and, understandably, she was a little upset. This upset was life threatening, says the reporter, and all of this points to the fact that Salvia is evil and should be banned.

How about the person who performed the dosing? Isn’t the evil link in this particular chain? What about the Marijuana? Could that have been bad? How about the possibility that this lady just wasn’t feeling very well on this particular occasion? It seems to me that Salvia isn’t necessarily the bad guy here. If there’s any concrete proof that Salvia Divinorum is dangerous, I would absolutely love a reporter to report on it. Then I would listen.

But hey, if worthless hacks, ahem, I mean reporters like this weren’t so eager to jump on the ‘ban Salvia’ bandwagon, they wouldn’t have anything to write about, would they?

Brett Chidester’s case is a tragic one. In January 2006 the 17 year old student from Delaware committed suicide though inhalation of Carbon Monoxide. That his untimely death was a tragedy is without question. The controversy surrounding Chidester’s death is entered around Brett’s Law, as it is called: the move by his parents and concerned well wishers to blame his death on heavy Salvia use

That Brett used Salvia is not a new revelation, and in fact his mother had challenged him about this some months before; Brett claimed to have halted his experimentation with the drug and was, he said, clean. His mother does not believe this to be the case.

After their son’s tragic death the Chidesters blamed Salvia for his state of mind and, consequently, for his death. Brett’s mother started a campaign in which some success was gleaned: Delaware classified Salvia as a Schedule 1 controlled substance.

Mrs. Chidester’s focus then turned to Ethnosupply, a Canadian Internet company that sold the Salvia with which Brett was experimenting. Salvia is completely legal in the US – though now it is not in some selected states – and the practice of buying over the Internet is a common one.

One can easily empathise with Mr and Mrs Chidester who have lost their son in terrible circumstances, and that they want to blame someone – or something – is completely understandable. Their claim that Salvia killed their son is a difficult one to prove, though.

In fact there is no evidence at all that Salvia is dangerous to the body or the mind, and Brett’s death was not shown to have resulted from his earlier use of Salvia. No deaths have been reported since. To aim to ban the drug – presumably to get closure over what Brett’s parents feel is an injustice – is to blame the wrong culprit. Surely the things that caused Brett to be in this state of mind should be addressed, and not a harmless drug that he happened to be using a few months before?

Dr. Nicholas Perricone — author of “The Perricone Promise” — has called acai berries “nature’s perfect energy fruit”. This is high praise for a fruit which has enjoyed increased exposure over the last few years. Almost monthly scientists and nutritionists are finding more and more reasons why everyone should be eating or drinking acai, and why they should seriously be considering an acai diet.

Foods which have antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties are great for fighting the effects of serious illnesses like cancer, osteoporosis, heart disease and even Alzheimer’s. Acai has much of both antioxidants (1o times the amount found in red grapes) and anti-inflammatory ingredients. This is why an acai diet is so widely regarded as a good thing for pretty much everyone.

Another thing about acai and an acai diet is that it can actually reduce and slow the onset of ageing: both physical and mental effects of ageing will be combated with the help of the antioxidants and the anti-inflammatory ingredients.

Along with stopping serious disease and slowing the ageing process (and tasting really nice, too!) an acai diet can help with cholesterol management and improvement of the digestive system. An impressive array of talents for such a small fruit! A small fruit with big ideas.

Recently I started to use the acai berry as an addition to my normal diet. I managed to get some acai juice from a local distributor and have taken the acai juice to work with me everyday since. It’s tasty and nutritious and apparently it’s going to make me fit and healthy.

I started looking for ways to get acai juice after I saw some really interesting reports about it on Oprah. I love Oprah and as she told me the acai juice would do me the world of good I had no choice but to believe her! The acai juice that I buy is delicious and nutritious. It does actually feel like it’s doing me a world of good. Apparently it is the anti-oxidants in the acai juice that do the most good, but there is loads of other juicy goodness in there as well.

Some of the residents in the areas that harvest the acai fruit rely on the berry in a big way. I’m talking about it making up almost half of their diet and providing all of their income. If I’m feeling this much better just from drinking acai juice imagine what it must be doing to them! Amazing!

Yet another US State is considering banning Salvia Divinorum. Salvia is a hallucinogenic herb that, although barely known just a few years ago, has suddenly shot into the limelight. This limelight has given politicians, reporters and writers everywhere a good reason - so they think - to demand the banning of this naturally occurring drug. Salvia is currently legal - with good reason, some would say, since there is absolutely no indication that it is at all dangerous.

The Cincinnati news site news.cincinnati.com presents a typically biased view of the situation, describing Salvia users as experiencing paranoia and panic. What it doesn’t tell us is the potential for positive benefits of Salvia. Not only does Salvia promise a trip like nothing else you’ve ever experienced, but it might also leave you with a feeling of inner peace, it might give you extra drive and motivation, and it might even concentrate your mind and body on whatever task is at hand. People use drugs like Salvia for a whole host of reasons, only one of which is getting high.

Even if people are using Salvia to ‘just’ get high, they can feel safe in the knowledge that there are virtually no toxins put into the body when using Salvia, and there are no known side effects. Mazatec Mexican shamans have been using Salvia to get in touch with their spiritual side for centuries; they do not appear to believe that there is anything wrong with it.

If Cincinnati does decide to ban Salvia then it will be in fairly good company: the number of States now banning Salvia — or at least controlling its use in some way — has gone into triple figures in recent months.

You should ask yourself this: is it worth sacrificing my civil liberties for the sake of an easy vote, an easy house bill, or an easy story for the journalist? Of course it isn’t. Banning Salvia is the first step on a slippery slope that can only end in disappointment.

It is testament to the tenacity and drive of Sarah Palin that she managed to lead her high school basketball team to victory in a small-school basketball championship in 1982. Sarah hit a critical free throw in the last seconds of the game. She did all this whilst suffering from a painful stress fracture in her ankle.

Born in 1964, Sarah Palin is a pretty hockey mom with 5 beautiful children; her eldest boy is serving in Iraq. She is a self confessed bible believing Christian, and this helped to polarize opinion about her across the US Sandpoint, Idaho was the place of Sarah Palin’s birth, but her family moved out to Alaska while she was still very young. Sarah returned to Idaho to complete her University education, graduating with a degree in communications-journalism in 1987.

Sarah Palin’s father used to take her moose hunting before she went to school and the family generally loved the outdoors. Competing together in long distance runs was not an uncommon phenomenon. But Sarah Palin is no plain tom boy: she won the Miss Wasilla pageant and came third in the Miss Alaska pageant. This latter near-victory ensured that she had a college scholarship.

I was trawling through some insane videos on YouTube recently when, to my shock and complete and utter horror, I spotted my daughter high on Salvia in one of them. I recognised a couple of her friends before I recognised her, but there she was, giggling like a maniac and making a fool of herself in front of the world.

Naturally I had to confront her about this.

Yes, she said, she regretted that the video had made its way onto YouTube; she did not, however, regret using Salvia to get high. Again, I was shocked as this simply wasn’t something that I expected from my daughter.

I told her that I’d seen all the bad press about Salvia and that, in my opinion, there was no smoke without fire (so to speak). In her opinion there was, and she had looked into the matter herself once her friends started smoking Salvia to check how safe it was. She told me that it was actually statistically safer than either alcohol or nicotine (and safer by quite some way) and that this research was the basis of her deciding to take the drug.

I respect my daughter as much as I hope she respects me, and I’m not one to dismiss her opinion on this outright, as much as I thought it to be rubbish. I decided to give her the benefit of the doubt and to go and do some of my own research into Salvia.

Well, what can I say? I always knew that my beautiful daughter was clever and resourceful, and she’s also quite often right. She was in this case.

I’m no longer worried about her smoking Salvia for the health reasons: any doom saying on behalf of the media is just there to improve their potential for a good story. Salvia seems to be completely safe and there have been no deaths reported where Salvia has been the major contributing factor.
I still don’t like the fact that she was on YouTube, but at least I can rest safe knowing she’s not going to kill herself.