Posted on 07/27/2006 12:36:03 PM PDT by Drew68
Hunter knows how to mellow out on marijuana. It's something he does all the time. But the first time he smoked the leaves of a plant dubbed the "magic mint," he felt as if he'd been slammed into another dimension.
As drug trips go, this one was more terror than pleasure.
"The first time I did it was with a lot of people," recalls Hunter, a Toronto university student who asked that his real name not be used. "That was probably a bad idea because I did it and before I even knew what was happening, I was just like transported into another world.
"Then someone was around me and they just tapped my shoulder, and I forget if I was annoyed by that, but it felt like spikes going into my body. I felt like I was being stabbed, but obviously it was the Salvia."
Salvia divinorum, that is — a member of the sage family of plants that has been used for hundreds of years by the Mazatec indigenous people of southern Mexico as a medicinal herb and means of divination.
Today, it continues to be used in shamanistic rituals. But it has also become popular among the university and college crowd in Canada and the United States — although for many, once is enough, experts say.
What may be surprising, given its powerful hallucinogenic effects, is that cultivating, selling or using Salvia divinorum are all perfectly legal in Canada and most of the U.S.
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Are you being series?
This is hugh! and series!
Let's spread the word that Kudzu will get you high. It'll disappear overnight!.........
Kudzu will never disappear.
Timothy Leary's dead.
I guess this explains those Mentos commercials.
I'm wondering if Google's servers are gettin overloaded with people looking up "Salvia divinorum".
Nah, spread the word that the snorting the crystalized sweat of illegal immigrants will get you high.
Illegal immigrants will disappear overnight. ;-)
Time to outlaw some more nature!
F'ing idiots.
Oh, yeah. I'm thinking of starting a herb garden.
Nope. Google seems to work fine :>)
I believe I saw an article that said it could be made into biodiesel. If so, we might see a great lessening of its presence.........
It's been around for years. And it's every bit as terrifying as the article describes. An absolutely awful high.
we need to be eradicating this drug and throwing the pushers in jail.
The plant is grown by the Mazatec indigenous people of the Oaxaca mountains of southern Mexico in isolated, moist, and secret plots. It has been used as an entheogen by their shamans for centuries for healing during spirit journeys. It is thought to be a cultigen. No definitively wild populations have been found.
The Latin name Salvia divinorum literally translates to "sage of the seers". The genus name Salvia is derived from the Latin salvare, meaning "to heal" or "to save". The words salvation and saviour also come from this root.
The primary psychoactive constituent is a diterpenoid known as salvinorin A.
darnit! i hate that stuff!
creepin' kudzu covers everything here now.
it's like the blob engulfing all the trees.
errrrrr.....
ROFL. So Al Gore has now switched from smoking pot to mint leaves?
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