Salvia
Salvia is the latest substance to find itself in the US legislator’s limelight: while the substance is very much alive and legal in many US states it is increasingly becoming the poster-child the youth drug culture. Whether it deserves this epitaph or not is a completely different matter.
Rick Doblin of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies is among those that reckon the authorities’ reaction to Salvia is over the top. It is not, he states, a “party drug”. Doblin goes on to state that it tastes terrible and is never going to be terribly popular.
Salvia’s popularity, though, is not in dispute. The numbers of punters ordering Salvia over the Internet are growing at an astonishing rate, with websites like salviadragon.com set up purposefully to service this growing market. Part of the reason for the popularity is likely the largely legal status it enjoys unlike other hallucinogens like LCD and PCP.
[…] that are usually the first to seek the banning of any narcotic substance are largely clueless about Salvia, which remains legal in most of the United […]
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[…] time and space or merging with inanimate objects. There have been no recorded deaths resulting from use of Salvia, though it was cited as a factor in one teen’s […]
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[…] is overblown and completely out of proportion with the danger it poses. One of these defendants of Salvia’s legality claims that the “move to criminalize is a misguided response to a very minimal problem”. […]
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[…] Salvia is claimed to be relatively harmless (which explains the somewhat lackluster and lethargic approach by the legislators) alternative to marijuana, PCP and LCD; certainly its hour-long effects do not seem to cause as much strain on the body and mind as those of these other drugs. Naturally whether Salvia is harmful or not doesn’t really come into the equation when we’re talking about possible legislative measures: only perception and political points. […]
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[…] Scientists are excited about a new drug that might help research into treatments for Alzheimer’s Schizophrenia and other such diseases. The drug in question? Salvia Divinorum. […]
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[…] or smoking Salvia leaves on their own may have a limited effect on the users, and many suppliers sell concentrated […]
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