Salvia: Drug du jour

The article opens with a complete falsehood in the very first sentence:

"Salvia has been smoked for centuries by Mazatec Indians as a healing and divining tool."

Totally wrong! The chew it! And they *only* chew it!
In fact, Mazatec Indians when told that Salvia is being smoked in the West, react with indignation, saying that it's disrespectful towards the plant spirit and that it would be like burning your own children.

All true, all true. But I couldn't help but laugh the this nugget:

'"It always disturbs me when people see a need for people to get high," Stratyner [Co-chairman of the board of the National Council for Alcoholism and Drug Dependence] says. "And I'm a jazz musician."'

WTF?

They're from something like that; I don't know if I'd call them aliens or ETs exactly, because generally aliens and ETs and so forth are very like the tribals here; they sure aren't anti-drugs types, put it that way.

I think they (those referred to as 'poles apart' there) exist paradoxically - somehow, something went wrong with one or more of them inside their minds - and they are like this parasitic presence back and forward in time, but emanating from a single infection point in the timeline(s), when they originally went wrong.

It's that thing inside them, that choice where they gravitate towards causing upsets and breaking things and choosing to do harm and to deviate from the environment they exist within and depend upon for everything. It's very strange how anything can actually become that though, and I doubt that I'll ever understand why such choices are allowed to go ahead and actually be executed, because of the way that they affect other beings (other than those who make the wrong choices).

And just to say: they're not just unable to understand a point of view whereby it's prefectly ok to use what they term drugs, especially since it's a completely natural unharmful done thing here on Earth and always has been, across many species;
they're unable to understand full stop.

They don't have a right brain / intuitive side; I think it is taken from them when they choose to sell their souls and serve evil.

it is a religious sacrament. These people are from outer space and they will never understand our point of view. I believe Dave Gilmour called it Poles Apart

What the fuck does "purple drug" mean?

That's a really stupid article snippet, it's written in a standardised style that people learn to copy instead of writing in their own unique styles. It assumes the reader is braindead, as all of those report-type styles do, and goes on to pose a question that even feeble minds would have managed to figure out for themselves their own conclusions to, without ever having read such a non-factual, but guidedly-opinionated, article.

That could have come straight out of the Goebbels Propaganda Piece handbook; and the saddest part of that being that its author probably doesn't even realise why it's so morally wrong for them to contribute to the proliferation of that style of reporting.