EcoTalk

Salvia wasn’t a well known drug until the middle of the last century, it was mentioned in 1963 by scholars Richard Schultes and R. Gordon Wasson, from experimenting in psychedelic explorations in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Salvia is also known as Salvia Divinorum and has become quite well known and is being used by teens in universities all over the world. Is Salvia the new Marijuana?

Salvia Divinorum was once mentioned in an article about cooking with sage, it belongs to the mint family so you can understand why, but Salvia has totally different results when ingested.

Salvia can be taken in various ways but the most common is to smoke it. This produces experiences ranging from uncontrollable laughter to much more intense and profoundly altered states. Because of these effects Salvia has been likened to LSD.

A documentary in 1998 about the plant produced numerous Nexis mentions in the British press. As the drug was thought to be new, not many people had heard of it. But this plant is not new and has been known to the natives of Mexico’s Sierra Mazateca range for a long time, they use it to facilitate visionary states of consciousness during spiritual healing sessions.