Should Salvia Be Banned?
The use of Salvia Divinorum – the naturally occurring hallucinogenic plant native to Mexico – is on the increase. Why? Because it is legal, and it is very potent; with all the strength of LSD but without many of the side effects (including jail time, if you can include that as a side effect) Salvia is cheap, widely available, and getting more and more popular.
Salvia can be taken a number of different ways. Chewing the leaves is less effective than smoking Salvia. Smoking is very troublesome and the leaves must be heated to a very high temperature in order to release the hallucinogenic properties.
More popular is the concentrated plant extract offered by main online retailers. This concentrated dose is rated at 10, 20 or 60 times. This rating being home much stronger the concentrate is than the Salvia ‘raw’ equivalent.
It is this concentrate that lawmakers are finding slightly uncomfortable and, slowly, are starting the wheels in motion to legislate against.
[…] If you live in Oklahoma or Kansas, or one of the other states to pass laws to make Salvia banned, then possession of Salvia is a felony. In Oklahoma the possession is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Whatever federal drug law says, these places want Salvia banned. […]