Florida makes salvia illegal
A hallucinogenic herb known as Salvia, which was sold legally in the state of Florida, will soon be illegal.
Governor Charlie Crist has signed the hallucinogenic herb law (HB 1363) which makes Salvia divinorum illegal and puts it in the same class of controlled substances as marijuana and LSD.
Salvia looks like crushed marijuana and users say it creates a high similar to marijuana, PCP, or even LSD. The drug comes from a plant that's commonly grown and used in Central America. Historians date its use by the Mazatecan Indians in Mexico as far back as the 16th Century.
Possessing the herb, often sold on the Internet, will be a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, when the law goes into effect July 1.
Several other states including South Carolina, Virginia and Illinois have also recently passed bills to make salvia illegal.
However, so far, the federal government and the DEA do not consider this drug illegal under federal law.
Video on the cbs4.com website.
» More ways to bookmark this page
|
Recently @ DoseNation
|
|
I remember my mother cutting the leaves up and putting it in Cuban coffee when I was a child and had sever laryngitis. It went away right away.
Salvia leaves are used on your forehead when you have a headache.
It is a healing herb.
It has been used for years as such.
How could this become illegal?
What next?
How about making all prescription drugs illegal since youths use them in parties along with alcohol?
How about Afrin? that is very addictive!
Will we not be able to buy any cleaning agents because some youth can use it to get high, or others to commit suicide?
Why don't they outlaw driving because some people drink and drive?
How about knives? maybe that should be next because some people kill with them.
There is no logic in making a medicinal herb illegal because someone used it for evil. You might as well make everything illegal.
Porn is one. You can buy a porn magazine legally....the same one that a rapist or child molestor used before committing a crime.
Makes old farts like me wonder what kind of a generation that's coming up will be. Can you imagine stoned congressmen and senators making our laws, spaced out cops coming to your rescue or calling for help when your house is on fire and all the firefighters are stoned or high?
I watched a brilliant grandson go down the tubes from drug abuse. At 21 he is no longer functional and relies on "a little help from his friends". I don't think he'll live to see his 30th birthday. I hope I pass on before he does because it will break this old man's heart. Be advised all you junkies and drug abusers out there--your conduct affects more people than you
may care to think about.
Yeah--ain't drugs grand?? Let's legalize everything and kill more kids.
Wake up America.
:l ignorant writer
we should stand up for what we belive in.
i know thos damn democrats think the constitution is out of date but it shouldnt be!! the government CANT make things illegal for no good reason, yes its probabbly bad but still, we should have the right to hurt ourselves.. FUCK THIS GOVERNMENT
but VIVA AMERICA!
[link]
Thanks Crist.
[link]
Arrested for finding the secrets of the universe and then publishing it on youtube; convulsing around in circles, "Help Help, I am being dragged into that hole in the corner by what feels to be fishhooks and some minty spirit! I bet I will get plenty of views for this!" That would be a story to tell your cell mate.
The comments posted here do not reflect the views of the owners of this site.