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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Maybe it also explains all the nut jobs that call into Art Bell and his Kook to Kook program.
That’s jimson weed. One of the common halucinations it causes is seeing little people...
Bizarre; I JUST called my representative and told him I hoped he voted no on HB 2347, which some nutcase from Waco introduced in order to ban the stuff. This is not a party drug, people!
The Salvia they’re talking about is Salvia Divinorum, not the kind of Salvia you see in people’s yards; the two are related, though. Going off what I’ve read on Eurowid, this stuff is almost gaaunteed to give you a bad trip, which is why there’s never been a problem with it. People think “Oh, cool, legal pot!”, but they only do it once...
Enough already. If kids can't get ahold of pot or this stuff, they'll just huff household chemicals instead. Which, I might add, are far worse for their health than any natural drug.
Jeez... and I had to put up with smokin’ jimson weed.
What a disturbing visual image I have now.
It reminds me of a Monty Python skit in which the main character wore an overflowing drool bucket.
Ick!
Ugh!
I thought it said that too. I was really wanting to find out some good information on this one. lol.
Yep and actually let American that they are winning the war on drugs. Disgusting. I say get rid of the whole wasted drug war. Why don’t we all go picket in front of the White House. No more war on Drugs. It has been going on far too long and no end in sight!
I know about it. In 1974, I was with some local sheriff's
deputies in a rural part of west Tennessee when a couple of young teens came through a small town driving fast.
It turned out that they were high on Jimson tea.
They spent the night in jail.
The girl was from a quite wealthy family in Memphis.
“Jeez... and I had to put up with smokin’ jimson weed.”
Interesting that you should say that.
When I was a child I had pretty bad asthma. I was down in Mexico visiting family friends and had an attack.
They made me smoke a cigarette made of something that smelled strange. It immediately cleared up the asthma.
The cigarette turned out to be made from the leaves of a jimson weed plant.
They were sold at drugstores down in Mexico.
I later learned there was a product sold in the US that contained jimson weed. It was called “asthmador” or something like that. It was a powder that you put on a saucer and lit and inhaled the fumes.
Those little cigarettes were the single most effective thing I ever used for controlling asthma.
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