Is Salvia the Next Marijuana?

AP/Google ^ | March 11 2 | JESSICA GRESKO

[timm22]

Some say legislators are overreacting to a minor problem, but no one disputes that the plant impairs judgment and the ability to drive.

Technically someone on a salvia trip would make a bad driver, but that's assuming they could get into a car and start it in the first place.

From my observation, that's pretty much never going to happen unless one is actually smoking the stuff while driving, which seems very unlikely. The more likely scenario is that the user is too busy swimming in a river of Lego blocks or collapsing like a black hole to even remember that they HAVE a car, let alone getting in the thing and trying to drive somewhere.

[enraged]

read #31, if you went thru a trip like that alone, who knows a day later you might still be on the edge, so to speak. Especially if you were close to the edge to begin with.

[Don Joe]

“If you think this is bad, don’t google ‘Jenkem’.”

Shitheads.

(Hey, someone had to say it...)

Sometimes I grow weary for lack of hope for the future.

What a pathetic, revolting commentary this practice is...

[Don Joe]

a rose that can make LSD

Warning: I don't know if this is urban legend -- I don't know if it's some wise-ass's way to trick people into ingesting something like ricin. All I know is that when I read your post, I recalled having read about this business.

[ChurtleDawg]

trust me-—several years ago I tried this stuff, and it was far more powerful than marijuana, even the highest grade marijuana around. Frankly, it was so powerful and disorienting that it is really scary. The high only lasts a few minutes, but during that time you are virtually unable to function-—and you have no comprehension of what is going on around you.

[CarrotAndStick]

I think you meant this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_baby_woodrose

[CarrotAndStick]

I live in Bangalore, and I've seen this plant grow in the wild around here. Never thought it was a source of a hallucinogen/ drug, least of all, LSD! I doubt anyone here knows about it, even.

[SlapHappyPappy]

I read a story in GQ by a reporter who investigated Salvia. he went to Mexico where it originates. Down there it was considered part of a spiritual sacrament, and he actually had some trouble finding someone willing to administer it to him. Oddly, the same region produces “magic mushrooms” and the locals had been shocked when those first gained attention because they considered the mushrooms far inferior to Salvia.

The writer continued to use it when he returned to the US, but began to have some terrifying experiences that convinced him the drug was not something to be used casually.

When I had first read the online articles about the drug it seemed fairly harmless. But after reading that article I became convinced that it is a very dangerous drug and that the way it is promoted makes it even more dangerous.

And I am far from a fan of the War on Drugs.

[Dinsdale]

Jimsonweed is much more hallucinogenic then Silvia and lasts for hours.

Back in the 60s they gave it to 100 serious heads as a test. None of them would ever do it again.

Both are non-issues. Recreational drugs need to be at least somewhat fun before anybody wants anything to do with them. Tweak and coke are still a mysteries to me. If I want to be irritated and on edge I just watch the TV news without smoking pot first.

[TNdandelion]

No. I just looked it up and this salvia has whitish/purple blossoms and while pretty, not as spectacular as the common red salvia (annual) you can find at most garden centers or even the purple perennial salvia I have growing in my front yard. I hope no one tries to yank it up and smoke it. I’ll be kinda mad.

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[sweetiepiezer]

Heard of this one a few weeks ago, very scary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Z6lpZD3MA

[Born Conservative]

Tonight's our crack pipe night. I'm not sure how we'll fit this drug into our schedule, considering that our parents will be using the basement all week.

LOL!