Kansas legislature bans Salvia
The little drug Salvia Divinorum is legal under US Federal law. Individual states, though, have recently passed laws that see Salvia banned or restricted in some way. Salvia is legal across most other countries except Australia.
Salvia gained notoriety when the parents of a Delaware teen blamed the drug for tragic and untimely death of their son who committed suicide, seemingly while under the influence of the hallucinogenic drug.
Users say that using Salvia induces hallucinations which can make users feel like they are having outer body experiences or are merging with inanimate objects or even the floor. There have been no confirmed reports of Salvia being bad for you in the long or short term; which makes the laws seeing Salvia banned just more ludicrous.
Oklahoma and Kansas are the latest of 11 states to see Salvia banned, with another 20 or so considering the banning or limiting of the drug.
As noted above Salvia is still completely legal under US federal drug law and it is widely available over the Internet. The drug comes in its natural state or as a concentrated extract which is up to 60 times more potent than the natural form. We don’t want to see Salvia banned, but there is little we can do to fight against the country’s lawmakers.
[…] and Oklahoma have recently introduced new laws that see Salvia banned in those states; they join around 9 other states which have introduced similar legislation. The […]