| Salvia Divinorum – Nature's Legal Hallucinogen | | | | Divinorum is one member of the approximately 1000 |
| A few weeks ago I saw a news item on TV about | | | | species of Salvia and is the only species with |
| what was called a "legal hallucinogen" that was freely | | | | vision-inducing, hallucinogenic qualities. The Mazateca |
| available to anyone, including your children. It can be | | | | Indians, from the Mexican province of Oaxaca, have |
| grown in a garden, is a member of the mint/basil | | | | used it in religious ceremonies leading to healings and |
| family and is sure to be featured on a neighborhood | | | | divine inspiration for hundreds of years. |
| corner near you sooner or later. | | | | It is commonly smoked...using a bong or water |
| The facts about this hallucinogenic are presented | | | | pipe...or chewed by using 10 or more large, fresh |
| here to keep you forewarned and up to date on the | | | | leaves that have been rolled in a ball or dried leaves |
| truth about a drug that will be offered to your | | | | that have been re-hydrated by soaking in water. |
| children at some point in the future ... that could be | | | | There's numerous Internet sites that will sell Salvia |
| tomorrow, next month, next year. Using Google, or | | | | joints, dried leaves and vials of extract in various |
| any other search engine, you will find 20 or more | | | | strengths to anyone. Free instruction on how to get |
| pages of sites offering Salvia Divinorum information | | | | the most intense or best experience from the |
| or products for sale. | | | | self-induced high can be easily found on many |
| Salvia Divinorum is touted all over the Internet as a | | | | websites. You can be sure that your kids will have |
| visionary herb and not a recreational drug. It is | | | | their heads stuffed full of the mythical "legality" of |
| supposedly used for meditation and self-reflection. It | | | | using Salvia Divinorum, from either these websites or |
| has been called "legal pot" and "legal acid." The people | | | | their friends. |
| and groups touting the use of this plant put a lot of | | | | The use of Salvia impairs coordination; therefore, |
| emphasis on spiritual experiences, divination | | | | driving under its influence could be fatal! This drug |
| (predicting the future) and magical time travel | | | | alters perception and behavior, immersing users in a |
| experiences. | | | | dream-like state of awareness. This drug-induced |
| What young person just experiencing the world | | | | state will sometimes imitate sleepwalking, which could |
| wouldn't be attracted by those touted experiences? | | | | be very dangerous to young users. |
| Time Travel? Damn, it interests me and I am so far | | | | Only four states (at the time of this writing) in the |
| from being a naïve child that I barely | | | | United States either forbid or restrict the use of |
| remember that time in my life. How do you think | | | | Salvia Divinorum: Delaware, Louisiana, Missouri and |
| your child would perceive the anticipated experience | | | | Tennessee. The following countries have laws either |
| of time travel? | | | | forbidding or restricting use of this drug: Australia, |
| The plant is native to the Sierra Mazateca, Mexico, | | | | Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Italy, |
| and is called Diviner's Sage or Divine Mint. Salvia | | | | Spain, Belgium, Estonia and South Korea. |