I hadn’t heard of Salvia until very recently. As soon as the media started spouting stories about this legal hallucinogen that must be banned immediately I became interested. As did a lot of my friends.
It seems strange that we hadn’t heard of it before now so I did a little research. It turns out that Salvia has been used for a lot of years by the Mazatec natives in Mexico (Mexico being Salvia’s home territory, as it were) to give them spiritual insight. Did it work? I was about to find out.
The effects of Salvia are difficult to explain: whilst my friends and I all experienced hallucinations of some description, they varied in strength and. I felt like I was dropping rather quickly upwards. To say this felt a little odd is a bit of an understatement. One friend said he say a fairy in a pink dress and yet another said he just felt very disorientated and a bit ill.
We all smoked the Salvia we had and this – apparently – is the quickest way in which to get the stuff into your system and working. The Mazatec natives were generally ‘chewers’ rather than ’smokers’ but it all goes down the same way in the end.
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Salvia getting well known
July 15th, 2008