Smoking Salvia-this generations Hallucinagen

[momma-three]

I was wonderdering how many parents are aware of the not so new craze of smoking Salvia leaves to achieve a hallucinagentic effect? Is is very common on the college campus' and could be purchused at "head shops". It comes in a variety of strenghts and the effects look very frightening.

[nunya]

I've never heard of it but any time a kid is looking around for a hallucinagentic is cause for alarm.

[Dean J]

I think we need to define "common". A local reporter did a story on Salvia Divinorum years ago and described using it as very unpleasant. Comments on the story echoed that. Perhaps it's a popular "one time" sort of thing?

[nysmile]

A few years ago, a local high school kid tried this drug. He ended up in a psychiatric hospital for months and had to repeat his senior year. He still wasn't "back to normal" a year later. I have no idea where he is now.

[hellojan]

^ Oh, c'mon. This story is rehashed twice a generation with whatever new drug is suddenly fashionable. Of course drugs are bad. But, can we please stop claiming that we know someone that knows someone whose kid ended up in the psych ward of St. Mungo's?

[nysmile]

It happened. I worked in that school district and I know for a fact that it happened. The police were called because he was flipping out on the drug in the school. He was taken to the local hospital and then transported to a psychiatric facility where he remained for months. He ended up missing the rest of the school year and had to repeat his senior year.

Actually, it may not have been salvia because the above poster mentioned leaves. What he used was some kind of seeds.

[3bysmom]

You may not want to believe it but working at an inpatient adolescent psychiatric facility I have personally witnessed several teenagers whose infrequent (or even one time) drug use induced a psychotic state. It is real for those that are predisposed and unfortunately you probably will not know it before you try it.

[kantianethicist]

I had heard about experimentation with this a while back on a news magazine show. I actually grow this plant in my yard, but don't think anyone around me is tempted by it. I was under the impression that it was quite toxic.

[lje62]

I am not proud to admit this, but when I was a teenager, I smoked a joint with a few kids...I had a very strange reaction to it ( it was not my fisrt time smoking ) I was not only halluncinating, but could not go home because I was a mess..none of the other kids had any reaction, so we didn't think it was laced with anything...it was several hours until I could go home and I was in a weird fog for days. It was frightening , enough so that I never smoked pot again.

[nysmile]

correction: the boy I was referring to ingested seeds, not salvia.

[momma-three]

Parents ask your kids if they have ever tried this....you may be surprised to learn how many kids experimented with this legal hallucinagentic. If you want to see the effects of this drug go to U Tube and click Salvia high.

[emeraldkity4]

I grow and cook with several salvias, never thought of smoking it
yuk
I went mushroom hunting ( for identification) this past weekend in a state park by my childhood home, ( which I also used to do when I was college age), I think partaking of salvia sounds milder than as what could happen if you ate a mushroom that was misidentified.

I had never heard of this particular species, sounds like it is used by shamans in Mexico.
http://www.salvia-divinorum-scotland...armacology.htm
( do they really still have head shops) ?

[momma-three]

Emeraldkity--It is used by college students. I believe that since this is a legal substance most parents are totally unaware of its use or abuse.

[kelsmom]

My high school age son has told me that kids around us smoke salvia. They think it's harmless.

[emeraldkity4]

^ I have never heard of this- I am going to ask my Hort prof if he has