Salvia's effects come on quickly, sometimes in less than a minute. They usually disappear about 30 minutes to an hour later. Salvia's effects on the mind can range from mild to intense. They may be frightening, depending on how strong a dose of the drug someone takes. Some studies suggest that, over time, salvia use may contribute to a condition called dysphoria that is characterized by feelings of depression, discontent, and restlessness.
Smoking any substance over a long period of time, including salvia, can lead to breathing trouble and other health problems. Despite its legal status, salvia has not been deemed safe. In fact, the Drug Enforcement Administration DEA lists salvia as a drug of concern that poses risk to people who use it.
Drug Class: Salvia is classified as a hallucinogen. Salvia has large, spade-shaped green leaves that look similar to mint. They have white and purple flowers and typically grow to more than three feet high. This perennial herb is often mistaken as a legal alternative to marijuana.
But other than the fact that it is green, dried, and can be smoked, it has nothing in common with cannabis. People who smoke salvia will not experience a milder type of high than when smoking pot. The active ingredient in the salvia herb is salvinorin A, a chemical that acts on certain receptors in the brain and causes hallucinations. This short duration may be appealing to first-time users who are afraid of having a long trip that can last for hours. Precisely how much salvia is needed to produce these effects varies depending on the person as well as leaf quality and potency.
Many people who try salvia don't like it, describing the experience as intense, disturbing, and frightening—not fun or euphoric. According to the Center for Substance Abuse Research, salvinorin A is the most potent naturally occurring hallucinogen. How salvia acts in the brain is still being studied, but we do know that salvinorin A changes the signaling process of nerve cells, or neurons, in the brain by attaching to nerve cell receptors called kappa opioid receptors.
It also influences dopamine receptors in the brain. In the early s, teenagers were recording themselves using salvia and posting videos online some with , views on YouTube. Luckily, salvia has decreased in popularity among teenagers since then. Salvia has traditionally been used by shamans as a healing and divining tool salvia divinorum translates to "sage of the seers".
According to Daniel Siebert, who's researched salvia for more than 20 years, the herb was used to induce a visionary trance state that made it possible for these healers to determine the underlying cause of disease and learn what steps to take to remedy it.
At this time, there is no medical use for salvia. Salvia has been reported to cause intense effects, including:. Many of these effects raise a concern about the dangers of driving under the influence of salvia.
Additionally, any drug that leaves you incapacitated during the time it's working increases the risk for serious injury in any capacity. It's not clear if there have been any deaths associated with salvia. The European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction notes that emergency reports have described lasting psychosis in vulnerable people. But sometimes people can get in trouble with some of those creatures.
Here someone eventually cries because a "demon" want to take her away from "here", and she tends to resist: salvia 20x: the lady in the water, "im being pushed," and the demon. This last video illustrates many interesting salvia features. I hope you can still see it because it has been flagged a lot, and I have to prove that I am an adult!
When reality becomes apparent, and we can see that the cosmic joke is on us I've howled laughing about it! It was not a real strong extract but I kept laughing when I did not even think anything was funny at al.
My friends watching started laughing also. The first day of the study was mostly just to establish a baseline health profile and make sure I was qualified for the trial. Participants in the study were required to be in good health, experienced with using psychedelics, and with no personal or family history with a psychotic disorder. The following day, I met with John Clifton, a Johns Hopkins research assistant, and Manoj Doss, a postdoctoral researcher who specializes in memory.
Clifton and Doss were going to be my trip sitters during my salvia sessions, so for about an hour and a half before my first dose we talked about our lives to get a bit more familiar with each other. For the first salvia session I laid on the couch and donned an eye mask while Doss sat at the far end of the room with the smoking apparatus. I was given one end of the hose and instructed to begin a second long inhale as Doss vaporized the salvinorin A with a butane torch. At the same time, Clifton began to play a new age soundtrack through speakers and came to put his hand on my leg to ground me during the trip.
When the 45 seconds were up, I exhaled and felt the effects of the salvia almost immediately. The first thing I noticed was the feeling of my body dissolving. Shortly after I began feeling the physical effects, the hallucinations began. I felt as though my head had split in two and a patterned stream began flowing from both sides of my face.
These diamonds continued to tessellate to an infinite point and I felt as though I were suspended above this expanse, hanging like a figure head hangs off the bow of a ship.
Throughout the trip, I remember being overcome by the profound beauty of the scene I was witnessing. Overall, the experience was quite pleasant.
I only had a brief moment of panic when it seemed like one of the notes in the new age soundtrack had been held for far too long. I began to worry that time was dilating and that I might be trapped in this space for eternity.
When the music progressed to the next note, however, the panic quickly subsided and time resumed its normal cadence. This entire experience only lasted for about three minutes. The return to base reality was as abrupt as when I left it.
At a certain point, the diamonds in the harlequin pattern began to stretch larger and larger until the entire world was brown, which eventually faded to black. This first trip was a sort of test run to make sure that I could handle the highest dose I would receive the following day in the MRI machine.
The most important thing, however, was to make sure that I remained absolutely still during the trip since even slight movements in the MRI machine can ruin the brain scan. Fortunately, one of the more common effects of salvia is a sense of not having a body, which renders users immobile.
According to Clifton and Doss, I stayed still as a rock throughout the trip.
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