hardcore... you related to Don Juan???
Posted on 11/16/2012 10:48:55 AM PST by Olog-hai
New psychoactive drugs are appearing on the market at the rate of about one a week as Europeans seek “legal highs,” a job made easier by the large rise in online drug retailers.
57 new substances have already been detected this year, up from 49 in 2011 and 41 in 2010, according to a report published on Thursday (15 November) by the Lisbon-based European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). Cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamines continue to be the main stimulants, but they are competing with a growing number of emerging synthetic drugs. …
Three natural products—kratom, salvia and magic mushrooms—top the list of ten legal highs offered online, but the remaining seven are synthetic. While they are commonly known as “legal highs”—designer drugs that have similar effects to prohibited drugs, but are chemically different so that they are not illegal—the agency notes that they often contain banned or harmful substances. …
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I have seen salvia in the produce dept of mexican markets here in the USA.
There are various salvia plants. A little group of shrinks and psychologists at a state hospital I once worked at spoke with awe of the psychedelic one. It’s not the herb in the mexican stores.
Not the same thing you are thinking. What you saw in the supermarket was just sage. You are thinking of salvia divinorum.
It was labeled salvia.
I haven’t seen it in a while.
I am pretty sure it is harmless to ingest.
Just don’t smoke it.
Alright.
Heck, what do I know?
“Surge in new drugs as Europeans seek “legal highs”.”
Why dont they just take up a sport? Join the army?
“Salvia” is just the genus. It means sage. What you saw is a harmless herb, not salvia divinorum, the psychoactive monster plant.
I’m old school... Jimsonweed.
I’ve seen several videos on YouTube with people being under the influence if it. Dosen’t look much like fun to me.
Why dont they just take up a sport? Join the army?
Why do people get drunk? The urge to alter one's mental state is as old as mankind.
Why do governments incentivize the creation and ingestion of dangerous new mind-altering chemicals by banning existing less dangerous ones (e.g., marijuana)?
LOL.
Indian tobacco?
I see now that is poison.
hardcore... you related to Don Juan???
It’s New Mexico dude, we don’t have peyote buttons, we have peyote hubcaps. ;)
One man’s poison another man’s pleasure.
peyote hubcaps
Stop, you’re killin me.
LOL!!! i still have one left(~35 years old) about he size of a silver dollar i kept as a memento of back in the day
The 70’s... just damn... ;)
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