Forget Salvia, what about Lion's Tail?
 | With all the recent hype about Salvia divinorium being made illegal, one garden buff wants to know what's next on the list of controlled plants:
If Salvia divinorum becomes a controlled substance, something else on the online lists of “legal highs” is sure to move to the top of the list and get all the buzz. Lion’s Tail, anyone?
Lion’s Tail, or Leonotis leonurus, is another garden plant that’s getting a lot of attention online from folks looking for a legal high. Funny thing is, it’s a lot easier to come by than Salvia divinorum. You can walk into just about any nursery and buy a Lion’s Tail.
In fact, because it’s drought tolerant, easy to grow, attractive to butterflies, and has a long-lasting bloom, The City of Austin added Lion’s Tail to its most recent Grow Green planting guide: “Native and Adapted Landscape Plants.”
I wonder if butterflies get a buzz from sipping Lion’s Tail nectar?
Lion's Tail is popular in the underground as a marijuana substitute or smoking admixture and is sometimes called "Wild Dagga", though that term is also used for pot in some African slang, which only confuses the issue. But this blogger is right. If you outlaw Salvia just because teenagers use it to get high, where does the list end? It just keep going...
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so im feeling satisfied with my blend. honsestly, even w/out adding the cannabanoids.
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I have smoked the orange flowers -- provided to me by a friend who grows the plant and assured me that they were of the "highest quality" -- but I noticed no effect. Concerning the "mild" nature of legal psychoactives: I would have to disagree that kava-kava is necessarily mild. Drank in quantities that are representative of its indigenous use, it can be quite strong (at least as "strong" as alcohol, although I feel uncomfortable with the comparison, as the effects are different). Re dagga extracts: It seems possible that an extract could be psychoactive (I've never tried one). But I still maintain that the herb itself, as it comes from he plant, isn't worth the bother.
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