Salvia Divinorum Learning Center
A LESSON IN SALVIA DIVINORUM
What is Salvia Divinorum? Salvia Divinorum (also known
as Diviner's sage, Magic Mint, Marķa Pastora, or simply Salvia). The Latin name
Salvia Divinorum literally translates to "sage of the seers".
 More often than not, Salvia is smoked. It's only been within the last five years
or so that this herb has started gaining in popularity with recreational drug
users. People who are interested in a recreational, social kind of drug
experience, something that might be equivalent to marijuana are usually
disappointed in Salvia because it is nothing like marijuana, not even remotely
close. So it could never become popular like marijuana "The effects are not
desirable for recreational drug users.
Basically Salvia is a psychoactive herb which contains a chemical substance that
alters one's brain function, results in temporary changes to perception, mood,
consciousness and behavior. Once used primarily for spiritual purposes by
Shamans in recent years Salvia has become as a recreational psychoactive drug
because of its hallucinogenic effects.
Now for the more the more complex scientific explanation: What makes Salvia such
a powerful hallucinogenic is Salvinorin A. It is the main active psychotropic
constituent of the plant. Salvinorin A is a compound that is active at the
extremely low doses of 0.2 - 0.5 mg, and has been described as being similar to
LSD in potency, making it the most potent naturally occurring psychoactive drug
known to date.
Where Is Salvia Grown?
The most popular Salvia plant is grown in the southern Oaxaca Mountains of
Mexico. To get an idea where Oaxaca is it borders the states of Guerrero to the
west, Puebla to the southwest, Veracruz to the north, and Chiapas to the east.
To the south Oaxaca fronts the Pacific Ocean.
The Future of Salvia Divinorum as an Herbal Smoke
Time may be running out on Salvia Divinorum. Several Bills have
introduced in the U.S. to make Salvia Divinorum a Schedule 1 drug (controlled
substance). Pending states to be a scheduled I controlled substance, putting it
in the same category as heroin and LSD. The current list of states is: Illinois,
Alaska, New York, New Jersey.
Salvia is already illegal to residents of: Missouri, Delaware, Louisiana,
Oklahoma, Tennessee and all branches of the U.S. Military.
Press accounts of efforts to ban Salvia often quote law enforcement and government officials who
exhibit an inaccurate knowledge of the plant's effects, and frequently characterize the 'high' as
"chewable marijuana", or as identical to LSD and PCP (two drugs with quite dissimilar effects to
each other, as well as to Salvia).
Unlike marijuana, Salvia has a nondescript appearance (being in the same genus as cooking sage),
can be grown in a small space, has no odor and requires no elaborate lighting set-up.
For these reasons, criminalization is likely to affect only the commercial sale of the plant,
and not its private cultivation, which would be very difficult to police.
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