My experience with Salvia
Back in the 1960s and 1970s when the flower power was all around, I have to admit that I experimented with Salvia, what an experience that was. Salvia is also known as Salvia Divinorum, I wasn’t into drugs but as this was classed as a herb (it has been known to be called sage) I thought a small smoke of it would be ok.
The first effect Salvia had on me was to set me off giggling uncontrollably, I felt relaxed and thought I could commune with nature, I had quite a few hallucinations but they didn’t last very long, only as few minutes.
Apparently, we weren’t the first to try it out, it has been known about, for years. The natives of Mexico’s Sierra Mazateca range are the first ones to use it, probably because that is where it grows. It wasn’t until the middle of the last century that anthropologists and drug researchers learned about Salvia Divinorum. In 1963 two scholars named Richard Schultes and R. Gordon Wasson wrote about the drugs psychedelic explorations but it wasn’t until 1991 that it earned it’s first Nexus.
Even though using this drug gives similar reactions to using acid, Salvia is still legal.