Posted on 05/03/2007 7:06:14 AM PDT by Quilla
The Internet is a wealth of information for high school and college students looking to do research, it is also the place where they go to buy Salvia divinorum, a readily available, and legal, hallucinogenic drug.
Parents around the country are mostly unaware of this member of the mint family, but the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has already flagged it as a "drug of concern."
Salvia, also known as S. divinorum, magic mint, Maria Pastora and diviner's sage, is native to areas of the Mazateca region of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Because this drug is not listed in the federal Controlled Substances Act, it can be legally obtained by anyone, mostly adolescents, seeking an alternative to marijuana or mescaline.
This herb is also not approved for any medicinal use in the United States, although Mazateca natives have used it for centuries for medicinal purposes and to induce visions.
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According to the National Drug Intelligence Center's website, "Immediately after ingesting the drug, abusers typically experience vivid hallucinations--including out-of-body experiences, sensations of traveling through time and space, and feelings of merging with inanimate objects. Some abusers experience intense synesthesia, an effect that causes the abusers' senses to become confused. For example, abusers may describe hearing colors or smelling sounds. The hallucinogenic effects generally last 1 hour or less unlike other hallucinogens like LSD and PCP. High doses of the drug can cause unconsciousness and short-term memory loss."
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Swapping spit with frogs?
Well, some were not that pretty, but the could definitely jump..........
“Hey, baby, wanna swap some salvia?”
It’s the long elegant legs...
Just when you give them a hug and you’re all dressed up to go out to a formal function too!! LOL!!
I did too!
I had to re-read it. Oh my!!! ;-)
Your services are required on this thread...
Back in the ‘70s at NCSU, some guys got busted by the campus cops for growing pot.....which actually turned out to be tomato plants. That was a good story in the school paper. Wish I’d kept a copy.
You're assuming his girlfriend was French?
Bingo. And with that tongue, she really could clean your tonsils...
We grow catnip for our Siamese in the corner of our small garden (for her medicinal use only, of course). I’m half-expecting the black helicopters to swoop down one evening.
oh do tell
I knew this stuff sounded & looked familiar. We’ve got some growing in the back yard on the edge of the garden. Hope the dog never gets into it - not that she’d eat any veggies anyway (minus the occassional carrot.)
This will ruin a garden favorite......most anything grown in the Kitchen Garden, pots, or garden has the medicinal potential of making you ill, drunk, aborting a fetus, to killing you if enough is used at one time. Google this plant up and you will see it has been used for years for a hallucinogenic effect – there are always stupid people who will abuse potentially dangerous plants. This article shows a slow news day....albeit, a great day for nurseries.
This is a WEED.
Weeds are virtually impossible to eliminate, just ask anyone with a front yard. What makes them think they will be successful trying to eliminate this one?
“Some abusers experience intense synesthesia, an effect that causes the abusers’ senses to become confused.”
That explains Dennis Kucinich, et. al.
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