Salvia divinorum

Salvia divinorum



Salvia divinorum is a plant that grows in the mountains of Oaxaca region, Mexico. Part of the mint family. It is a plant semitropicală. May increase several meters high if conditions are favorable. It seeds very rarely even if carefully pollinated and seeds are not very fertile. Multiply by butaci. The leaves are quite large (up to 23 cm), are covered with fine hairs, giving the appearance of velvet. The plant loves water, but grows very well in shady places, the soil well watered and drained. It can be grown under semitropical climate. Salvia can grow as houseplants in any climate. It tolerates cold weather and current.
Salvia divinorum is used for its psychoactive effects. There are several species of sage, but only salvia divinorum psychoactive effects.
The effects are difficult to obtain by fumarate dry leaves, but leaf extract can cause dramatic effects, sometimes scared or being captive-Many people who have used Salvia divinorum have not found it pleasant and did not want to repeat the experience.
The leaves of Salvia divinorum is consumed by chewing or tenofovir. Leaves are usually used enriched by treating them with salvia extract.
Dried leaves are sold to 50-100 USD / oz
Extracts costs 20-50 USD / gram
The active ingredient of Salvia divinorum is Salvinorin A, a chemical whose molecule contains only carbon, hydrogen and oxygen (does not contain nitrogen, so it is not an alkaloid).
It is not known whether Salvia divinorum produces mental or physical dependence.
The effect it produces is a very different state of drunkenness to alcohol.
Consumed by fumare, chew or drink as an infusion. Smoking in special tubes for the smoke to be hot. It can consume and inhalation of hot vapor (vapor temperature is 277 degrees Celsius).
When smoked the effects occur very rapidly between 20-60 seconds after fumare, sometimes within 1-2 minutes. The first effect takes 5-15 minutes, then follows a period of calm (calming).
At high doses, consumers have felt a dramatic time distortion, hallucinations, trips to other places, planets, time, posting the soul from the body, communication with spirit world, reincarnation in another person, change of identity. Most individuals remain motionless during the experience, but some people can walk unconscious (the moon). Many consumers think that experience more frightening than fun.
Tenofovir this plant throat irritation, headaches and mild irritability.
Salvia divinorum is not under control. For a substance to be included in the list of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances should be controlled with a similar chemical structure of controlled substances. Salvia divinorum is quite different chemical substances under control.
However in most cases it is packed and marked as junk ( "new ecstasy") and is considered by DEA officers (government structures to fight drug trafficking in the U.S.) an illegal drug. It was proposed in October 2002, be placed under control.
If it is sold for consumption, Salvia divinorum can be substance under control, is considered "Analog", because its action pharmacological similarities with other hallucinogenic compounds (THC).
DEA analysts considered to be "Analog" a substance must have chemical structure similar to a substance and not a pharmacological action similar to a substance under control.
Salvia divinorum in Australia is under control in June 2002

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