Salvia... what won't people smoke?
Okay, my opinion on this may seem a bit granny but just because you can legally buy something doesn't mean that you should, well, use it... or, in this case, abuse it.
Salvia has been bumping around for a while, it's all over youtube, people try it in Miami.. but seriously? This weed is whack. And now it's made it to the NY Times... what do you think about this? I mean, ecstasy used to be legal and it was pure mdma, and now that it's illegal, people are ingesting pills of who knows what. If marijuana was legal (which I support, btw) then perhaps the police could focus on serious crimes like rape and murder and identity theft rather than kids with joints. Education, people!! Education!!!!!
Okay, so I went on a tangent. Anyhow here's the article..
Salvia’s Popularity May Thwart Medical Use
DALLAS — With a friend videotaping, 27-year-old Christopher Lenzini of Dallas took a hit of Salvia divinorum, regarded as the world’s most potent hallucinogenic herb, and soon began to imagine, he said, that he was in a boat with little green men. Mr. Lenzini quickly collapsed to the floor and dissolved into convulsive laughter.
When he posted the video on YouTube this summer, friends could not get enough. “It’s just funny to see a friend act like a total idiot,” he said, “so everybody loved it.”
Until a decade ago, the use of salvia was largely limited to those seeking revelation under the tutelage of Mazatec shamans in its native Oaxaca, Mexico.
Today, this mind-altering member of the mint family is broadly available for lawful sale online and in head shops across the United States.
Though older Americans typically have never heard of salvia, the psychoactive sage has become something of a phenomenon among this country’s thrill-seeking youth.
More than 5,000 YouTube videos — equal parts “Jackass” and “Up in Smoke” — document their journeys into rubber-legged incoherence.
Some of the videos have been viewed half a million times.
Yet these very images that have helped popularize salvia may also hasten its demise and undermine the promising research into its possible medical uses.
Michael Stravato for The New York TimesBrian D. Arthur is founder of Mazatec Garden, which sells salvia and other herbs online
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