This is a paper I did for my research writing course, a lot of it is personal experience and opinion.
Salvia Divinorum:
A Divine Tool or a Dangerous Hallucinogen?
Salvia divinorum is an herb that contains the world’s most potent, naturally occurring hallucinogenic chemical, called Salvinorin A. States are joining together, attempting to make this herb illegal. Salvia is a ritualistic tool that is still used in that way to this day. However, because young adults are abusing this herb, it should be regulated in a manner similar to alcohol, rather than banning its sales and use.
Salvia divinorum, aka ’Magic Mint’, ‘Ska Maria Pastora’, and ‘Sally D’ is a plant that has been on this Earth for a long time, and, as the National Institute on Drug Abuse will tell us, is just now hitting the college and high school drug abuse scene. It has been known a lot longer than that to the indigenous people of Oaxaca, Mexico. The Maztec Indians used this herb for vision......
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