Understanding The Salvia Divinorum Plant
Salvia is a genus of plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. Salvia is a consciousness-changing herb that can be used in a vision quest, or in a healing ritual. Salvia is also illegal for Military Personnel as it goes against AFI Regulation. The genus name Salvia is derived from the Latin salvare, meaning to heal or to save. If salvia is smoked the main effects are experienced quickly.
Opinions range from veneration of the plant as a spiritual sacrament or a gift from the gods to the idea of it as a dangerous threat to society, needing to be banned as quickly as possible in order to spare countless families the horror of losing a loved one to the relentless tentacles of drug abuse In a major ABC news report aired on July 11, 2007, the anchors are seen to exchange expressions of incredulity when referring to a salvia story with the following introduction: “Now an exclusive I-Team investigation of a hallucinogenic drug that has begun to sweep the nation.
Salvia occurs in nature, whereas LSD is a synthesized drug. The potency of a drug is defined as how much of the substance is required to achieve therapeutic effects. So if it takes 1 mg of a drug to cause an effect orally and 10 mg of another drug to cause an effect, the first is said to have ’10 times the potency’ of the second. There is no way to compare the ‘power’ of different drugs reliably.
Effects will come on within one or two minutes, reach their peak after 5-10 minutes and then gradually subside. The duration is much shorter than for some other more well known psychedelics; the effects of smoked salvia typically last for only a few minutes. The most commonly reported after-effects include an increased feeling of
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