Salvia Divinorum

[cgannon64]

As far as I've heard, Salvia is only legal because US law bans things by categories, and Salvia is entirely in its own category.

I see no reason why Salvia should be legal and other hallucinogens shouldn't.

EDIT: I've seen people use it. For one, it didn't work; for another, it did, and it was rather disturbing to watch. More disturbing than any other hallucinogen I've seen people do.

 

[Shaihulud]

It sounds like a dangerous drug, as with any such cases, i will recommend that a test case be found among its many users first before the question of its legality be suggested.

 

[Che Guava]

I read last night that the receptors that Salvorin A attaches to are the same that opiates (opium, morphine, heroin) attach to. Rather than acting like opiates, however, they act as more of an angonist of those drugs. In fact, it has been considered as a methadone-like treatment of cacaine addiction, and as an anti-psychotic.

 

[punkbass2000]

Well, stuff on the market has to go through testing trials does it not? I dont think this is the case in what is being discussed in this thread.

Much of the testing is sub-par, IMO. For a psychological drug, all you need is four trials which indicate the prescribed benefit. So, if you do 100 trials, and four of them give a positive result, you've got a legal drug. And, again, long-term effects are simply unknowable.