Friday, February 27, 2009
News: Salvia Divinorum
Native to Mexico and still grown there, salvia divinorum is generally smoked but can also be chewed or made into a tea and drunk. Salvia divinorum’s short-lasting effects and fact that it is currently legal may make it seem more appealing to teens, lawmakers say. In the Delaware suicide, the boy's mother told reporters that salvia divinorum made his mood darker but he justified its use by citing its legality. According to reports, the autopsy found no traces of the drug in his system.
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I just heard that salvia divinorum has been banned in Ohio!
ReplyDeleteSalvia NEWS: Yes, it is true. Salvia Divinorum has been banned in Ohio. You can no longer buy salvia, smoke salvia, take a salvia trip in Ohio. Indiana a ok :-) please come to Indy and buy salvia here :-)
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Nice information about Salvia divinorum but where can I go to buy salvia so I can blog about my own experience ?
ReplyDeleteHey all. Today was a perfect day for me. My apartment complex opened there pool and all the new bathing suits were out then when was heading home I checked our mail and my shipment of salvia arrived. I can't wait till my roommates get home !
ReplyDeleteSaturdays are the best when my salvia divinorum arrives in the mail. Today has been a sweet day. Everyone else had "stuff" to do and just me alone all all day with my salvia. Unfortunately, I am out again of salvia. I think I am gonna try 30X next time. Enjoy your salvia trips!
ReplyDeleteSalvia has probably been in usage for hundreds of years, but it was only when R. Gordon Wasson, the famous botanist who also introduced psilocybin mushrooms to the Western world, brought back a specimen in the 1960’s that the plant became an object of scientific research. However, it remained an obscure plant until the 1990’s, when Daniel Siebert began his research on the salvia plant. Nowadays, salvia is widely known and sold in many (web)shops. But, there is still a lot of research to be done into the chemistry and effects of salvia. Little is known about the usage of Salvia Divinorum before its Western “discovery” in the 20th century.
ReplyDeleteQ. How is vaporization done?
ReplyDeleteA. There are not yet commercial vaporizers optimized for smoking Salvia. Salvia leaf, extract, or salvinorin can be vaporized on heated aluminum foil and inhaled with a straw. Alternatively, homemade vaporizer units can be constructed, or units designed for consumption of cannabis or tobacco can be used. Many commercial units are either not hot enough (won't vaporize) or too hot (will carbonize) for optimum vaporization of salvinorin.
Phase 1) Directly after I took the hit I realized that I had taken a much larger dose than I had ever before. As I started exhaling I could feel the physical effects kick in. I could also feel my mind start accelerating at warp speed. Suddenly, everything was black. The entire room around me had collapsed onto me and myself and all objects and people in the room were all one, but we were not a consciousness. More or less, I was perceiving the end of my universe, in which all atomic molecules had been infinitely compressed into one point, much like the universe is said to have been before the big bang. I was myself, and yet I was everything else in the universe also. Slowly I started to see again.
ReplyDeleteRecent studies at college campuses on both coasts have yielded estimates as high as 7 percent. The herb’s presence on military ships and bases has prompted enough concern about readiness that the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology was asked to develop the first urinalysis for salvia and is now testing 50 samples a month.
ReplyDeleteThough research is young and little is known about long-term effects, there are no studies suggesting that salvia is addictive or its users prone to overdose or abuse. Indeed, a salvia experience can be so intense, and at times so unsettling, that many try it just once, and even devotees use it sparingly.
Reports of salvia-related emergency room admissions are virtually nonexistent, likely because its effects typically vanish in just a few minutes.
With little data at its disposal, the Drug Enforcement Administration has spent more than a decade studying whether to add salvia to its list of controlled substances, as is the case in several European and Asian countries. In the meantime, 13 states and several local governments have banned or otherwise regulated the plant and its chemically enhanced extracts.