Teens Use Salvia to Get High Legally

Fox News ^ | May 2, 2007 | Katherine Tweed

[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."

[Quilla]

Saliva is sold at every nursery/garden center I've ever visited.

[Red Badger]

EWWWWWWW!......oops!....SALVIA not Saliva!............

[neodad]

I’m tired. I thought the headline said “Saliva”. Need more coffee.

[Long Island Pete]

Saliva is sold at every nursery/garden center I've ever visited.

They sell spit at nurseries?

[pillut48]

GMTA! That’s what I read too! And thought, EWWWWWWWW. :-p

[Quilla]

Dang, I typed saliva in post #1. My apologies.

[JB in Whitefish]

I’ve heard it’s not worth a bucket of spit.

[Quilla]

They give it away! ;-)

[Fighting Irish]

amazing .....

now if you don’t mind ... I have to run to Home Depot

Yippppppppppppie!

[chaos_5]

cheep high ping

[jdm]

"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.

So in other words you become Algore?

[Tax-chick]

Saliva is sold at every nursery/garden center I've ever visited.

With charming purple flowers.

Typso ping!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The undercover goons at the DEA are praying that this gets classified as a narcotic so they can have a license to kick in the doors in the middle of the night of anybody with a few flowers in their yard..

[Red Badger]

When I was a teenager, we got high swapping spit..........;^)

[marsapan]

Well, this beats hunting cow pastures for mushrooms...Home Depot is closer.

[montag813]

I would strongly advise against the use of this plant, which has other properties and toxins which are potentially very harmful.

[Publius Valerius]

I read the whole article and didn’t even realize that the word wasn’t saliva until you wrote your post. Even though I was reading about plants, it just didn’t register.

[EndWelfareToday]

bttt

[EEDUDE]

Must be a slow news day.

There are probably literally millions of things that will get you "high". There will probably need to be a whole new branch of the DEA to counter this new "threat". Jeez.

[Long Island Pete]

They give it away! ;-)

Free with any manure purchase?