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Parents worry about spread of little-known, legal hallucinogen that's big on YouTube
THE WORLD OF SALVIA | Bill Cooper hardly expected to dial into a world of Mazatec Indian shamanism when his phone went dead and he borrowed his son's. Then he saw one of the text messages: "hey, when were you fixen to blaze the salvia." Cooper, a bill collector, suspected it was code lingo for marijuana. But under parental pressure his 15-year-old finally told him "something horrifying," Cooper said.
He and other Brentwood teens smoked a little-known Mexican sage sold legally to adults in California, and apt to launch users into a strong, hallucinogenic and sometimes fearful mind trip.
"Since then he must have had five texts in a week's time saying 'I got the Salvia, let's blaze,'"‰" Cooper said.
"It's like the new thing. He said the kids are all selling it at the school," his wife, Caroline, said. "The fact it's legal, it's just crazy."
Salvia divinorum, which East Bay smoke shops sell in packets of dark, crushed-leaf extract — with a "strictly for incense use only" disclaimer — has spurred new laws in more than a dozen states in recent years amid a slew of online videos showing youths speaking or acting bizarrely after smoking it; and the well-publicized suicide of a Delaware teen in 2006, with the coroner listing salvia as a contributing cause.
In many of the videos, the smokers often start laughing uncontrollably, then are rendered incoherent by a forceful high that users describe as much shorter than LSD, but often more intense. All three of Brentwood's smoke shops carry the same brand of the extract in their display cases, with prices ranging by strength from $17 to $40 per 1-gram packet. Several Web sites also sell it.
In several testimonials, users of a plant native to Oaxaca, Mexico, describe a lasting spiritual effect from an herb known as Diviners' Sage, Sally-D and Magic Mint.
The online videos may create the false impression of a party drug, said the owner of a Berkeley head shop that sells Salvia. He requested anonymity, saying he worried his shop would be mistaken for one that sells it to minors.
"We point out this is a very serious thing. It has a very strong effect for about maybe 10 minutes. You can actually have an out-of-body experience," he said.
"It's not euphoric. It's not something where it's necessarily a pleasant experience, where people want to do more of it because it's fun," he said. "You have a very serious understanding that there are parallel realities and things are somewhat relative. It basically exposes elements of consciousness, like stretching your mind."
According to a federal drug-use survey published by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in February 2008, an estimated 1.8 million people 12 or older used Salvia divinorum at some point, including 750,000 who used it in the past year, with use more common among young adults and males. Contrast that with Ecstasy, which was used by 2.1 million people in the same one-year period.
The numbers may surprise, but one researcher who studies Salvia in humans doubted that it means rampant use or abuse.
Many people seem to take it just once, said John Mendelson, a pharmacologist at the Research Institute at California Pacific Medical Center.
"College kids and friends have done it. Half of them, maybe two-thirds, have a really bad time, very disturbing imagery, lots of fear, lots of anxiety. This drug appears best done in silence and in darkness and with a sober companion," Mendelson said.
In lieu of federal regulation, at least 10 states have listed Salvia as a Schedule 1 drug, like Ecstasy or LSD. A California assemblyman proposed a ban in California that was rejected in committee. Instead, the state last year outlawed the sale and distribution of Salvia to minors.
The federal Drug Enforcement Administration now lists Salvia as a "drug of interest."
"It's like our watch list," said DEA spokesman Michael Sanders. "It's starting to become highly popular out there among the younger generation. I've seen the YouTubes. People start seeing Martians, the wars between the monsters and the aliens, without the 3-D glasses."
Mendelson is among a cadre of medical researchers who say the plant carries unique chemical properties and holds the potential to advance drug development for a range of troubling diseases. Unlike other hallucinogens, the key chemical in Salvia divinorum activates a single receptor, called a kappa-opioid receptor, linked to a range of medical conditions such as bipolar affective disorder, depression and abdominal pain, he said. Research suggests it could help with cocaine addiction, and could even lead to medicines to fight HIV. But most of that remains speculative.
"We don't have anything in the library that looks quite like this compound. There's going to be a lot of scientific exploration here," Mendelson said. "One of the concerns with drug developers is if something is (restricted), what that really does is drive away capital" for research.
There is no evidence that Salvia is addicting, or that abusers have shown up in emergency rooms with symptoms of psychosis, he said. The Delaware teen's suicide is the lone death linked to the herb. "If we have demonstrated harms, we should go after it, but we should first demonstrate the harms," he said.
Assemblyman Anthony Adams, R-Claremont, who proposed the ban on Salvia, said liberal Democrats chose to defer to the federal government, but that he may bring it up again if use widens.
"When you have an out-of-mind experience, you can do substantive harm to yourself. The larger concern is the potential harm to a third person," he said.
Mendelson cautioned about treating Salvia like elicit drugs, but also warned that the risks are in what scientists have yet to learn.
"This is a really novel new human experience. We really don't know the risks at all at this point," he said.
That fact doesn't seem to faze some of the high school students, Caroline Cooper lamented.
"These kids are so young and dumb, they tend not to care."
Salvia Becomes Illegal in Ohio April 1st
Police are gearing up for a new front in the war on drugs: salvia, the hallucinogenic plant, becomes illegal in Ohio, one week from today. This afternoon, a local drug unit schooled officers on just exactly what the leafy herb looks like and how it effects people.
But as Joe Webb tells us, police say there's more they don't know about salvia than they do know.
Commander John Burke of the Warren County Drug Task Force had a roomful of officers in training today. He kicked off the meeting with a primer on salvia....a leafy drug that becomes an illegal drug in Ohio next week.
Cmdr, John Burke, Warren County Drug Task Force: "There's been some incidents in Ohio and across the country with Salvia where, I believe even some deaths associated with it... not necessarily deaths from the drug, but behavior that occurs afterwards."
Videos on youtube show reactions to high doses of salvia. The plant is readily available for mail order on several websites that deliver to all but a handful of states. Officers asked if it shows up on drug screens, what it smells like when burned, and if K-9's could sniff it out. The answer was we just don't know. Police say they have no idea how popular salvia is and what making it illegal will ultimately do.
The people who sell it say it is extremely popular. This store sells five thousand dollars of salvia every month. The smoke store sells a brand called purple sticky that, depending on the potency, goes for 21.95 to 95 dollars a gram. The owner says it's really caught on with people 25 to 35.
Amy Steffen, The Smoke Store: "Definitely, more popular. We've sold the plain leaf probably 10 years and at that point we sold very little." "I'd say about a year or two ago, it really increased."
Sales stop next Monday. Police say that's when they'll know just what they're dealing with.
"March 31st at 11:59 pm it'll be legal and at midnight it won't. And that's when we'll see how much in demand this is."
A bill to outlaw salvia was introduced in the Kentucky house last month, but failed to move forward. There are no regulations in Indiana. Next week, it will be a felony of the fifth degree to possess salvia in Ohio. The illegal salvia is a cousin of the flowering salvia that many people plant in local gardens. The illegal variety is native to Mexico and Central America and wouldn't survive outdoors in Ohio.
Legal Pot
Drug users who want to alter their consciousness but remain law-abiding have discovered a popular option: Salvia divinorum, an herb that contains the strongest known natural hallucinogen in the world.
Drug users who want to alter their consciousness without breaking the law have discovered a popular option: Salvia divinorum, an herb that contains the strongest known natural hallucinogen in the world.
Many nations have outlawed salvia, while others are considering such a ban. But the herb is legal, cheap and widely available in Ukraine. Moreover, the Interior Ministry’s drug enforcers don’t even seem to be aware of the salvia phenomenon – or its “mind-exploding” health risks.
Medical experts say that, even though salvia users don’t overdose or become addicted to the substance, hallucinations can be strong enough to produce deadly consequences.
Yuriy Pakin, head of the ATOS narcological center in Kyiv, said salvia can prompt live-threatening behavior. For example, those intoxicated by salvia can “easily take a window for the kitchen door and step out,” Pakin said. He also said salvia use could lead to suicide or abuse of stronger drugs.
Salvia smokers testified to the herb’s effects, although they didn’t want to be identified for this article because of the stigma of drug use.
“First it was complete darkness. Then I saw a monster, standing on the top of some gigantic meat grinder and mincing all people on earth through it,” said Daria, 19, a university student. “Only two more people were ahead of me to be grinded. And then when my turn came, I made an effort to run away, but my body was numb. Then I came to senses.”
Her friend, Inna, watched it all happen. Daria suddenly fell on the floor, crawled under the kitchen table and started pulling her hair, the friend said. “Even when the hallucinations stopped, we couldn’t approach Daria,” she said. “She was too afraid of everything.”
Salvia divinorum is part of the mint herb family. Translated from Latin, it means “sage of the seers.” It is grown in moist plots in Oaxaca, Mexico, and was used by shamans from the Mazatec Indian tribe to induce ritual trances.
Salvinorin A, its active ingredient, has been scientifically found to be the world’s strongest naturally-occurring hallucinogen because of its strength and effectiveness in miniscule doses. Smoking salvia causes short-term, but extremely intense and profoundly altered states of consciousness.
The effect also differs individually. For some, smoking salvia is like an amusement park ride offering escape, pleasant sensations and revelations. For others, such as Daria, the psychoactive herb creates a mental house of horrors. “Salvia pulls out your most ominous and horrific fears, those you had never realized or even imagined, fears hiding on the bottom of your consciousness,” she said.
Volodymyr, another 19-year-old university student, said salvia is used as a stepping stone to more sinister drugs. “Sometimes people try salvia as a preparation step to LSD,” Volodymyr said. “If they can handle it pretty well, then they move over to LSD.” When he smoked salvia, he saw himself sitting on the top of a nine-story building and leaning against another building with his hand. ‘I knew if I took my hand away, I would have fallen into an abyss,” he said.
Salvia appears to have become a sensation among young people. A Google search of “salvia” in Russian or Ukrainian generates numerous hot links from dealers offering to sell “minutes of a profoundly altered state.”
Prices range from Hr 80 to Hr 300 for one gram of Salvinorin A extract, depending on the concentration. “One gram of the weakest Salvinorin A extract for Hr 80 is enough to affect 6 to 8 people,” one salvia dealer said. “The effect it creates is a complete loss of personality and one’s own ‘I.’ It’s so incredibly strong that even able to make some reprioritize their lives and never go back to salvia or any other drugs.”
But others are attracted to the herb. Its popularity is evident from the more than 150 salvia-related support groups on the popular Internet social networking site, “vkontakte,” as well as videos and hundreds of Internet blogs. They show that the obscure Mexican shaman’s herb has attracted a broad and eclectic audience.
“If you want to experience fear as you never have felt in life, try salvia,” says one salvia-touting website. Another message from an Internet forum: “First time I did, I thought I would lose my mind. Never ever try salvia alone. In these few minutes you can do something irreversible to yourself.”
The herb and its active component, Salvinorin A, are banned as controlled substances in Australia, Italy, Denmark and South Korea. Some restrictions are in place in Belgium, Finland, Norway, Japan, Germany, Estonia and other countries. Several U.S. states have outlawed salvia and others are considering it..
Americans are studying the issue more closely after the 2006 suicide of a Delaware teenager, Brett Chidester. In his suicide note, the 17-year-old said salvia made him realize the pointlessness of life. An autopsy listed “salvia divinorum use” as a contributing factor to his death, caused when Chidester was killed by carbon-monoxide poisoning after enclosing himself in a tent and lighting a charcoal grill, according to the New Journal in Wilmington, Delaware.
“After many, many, many hours of research on websites, [we] came to the conclusion that this is a substance we should try to work ahead of,” the newspaper quoted Dave Stancliff, a legislative assistant to Alaska state Sen. Gene Therriault, as saying.
But Ukrainian authorities don’t consider salvia to be a problem at all. A drug-enforcement official with the Interior Ministry said investigators haven’t encountered abuse of the substance.
“I hear about salvia mostly from journalists,” said Oleh Shutyak, first deputy chief of the Interior Ministry’s department of illegal drug trafficking. “None of my workers has reported a single case of somebody switching from heroin to salvia. Nor have I heard concerns from narcological centers. We don’t have any official facts proving salvia abuse. As to Internet advertisements … [maybe] some healer collected the herb in the mountains to cure tooth pain and now wants to sell it through the Internet.”
Meanwhile, decisions about whether to include substances on prohibited lists of drugs are made by the Health Ministry. The ministry, in a statement to the Kyiv Post, said: “A request to study salvia abuse … in the shortest time and to consider the possibility of including Salvinorin A and salvia divinorum to the list of narcotic remedies was discussed at the Dec. 29 meeting of the working group” of the ministry’s drug-control committee.
So, while the ministry talks about salvia, Ukrainians are free to seize the moment, light up and enjoy – or suffer – the consequences of this “legal pot” for quite awhile.
Salvia Banned In SD.
You might be surprised to learn the drug salvia divinorum has already showed up in Brown County. Counselors have talked with some who have experimented with the drug and they are concerned with how it would show up on a drug test.
Salvia is the common name for salvia divinorum a new drug with dangerous side effects. It is a leafy herb in the mint family that has been known to produce hallucinogenic effects.
"Because it's a newer substance we are not really sure it's something that is going to be detectable or not. With that it's very concerning because of the clients that we work with," says Jamie Milbrandt, a community prevention networker.
Salvia is most commonly smoked but can also be ingested. Historically, the drug was used for religious ceremonies and healing. Natural Abundance is a health store in Aberdeen. The manager, Amber Mattson says ten or fifteen years ago they carried it. "We haven't carried it in recent years. There hasn't really been a need for it. There came a fad of people using it for other than medicinal reasons so we didn't look into ordering it anymore."
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) A Senate committee says the state should immediately ban a hallucinogenic herb called Salvia divinorum.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 6-0 on Tuesday to pass HB1090, which criminalizes possession of a substance that supporters of the bill said is gaining popularity among young people.
The bill contains an emergency clause, meaning it would become effective with the governor's signature. Some committee members asked whether the immediate ban was necessary. Others said if the drug is dangerous, lawmakers should act quickly to make it illegal.
The bill has passed the House. It goes next to the full Senate.
DPA Leading the Fight Against a Ban on Salvia in Maryland
Policymakers in Maryland have an opportunity to choose reason over prohibition this legislative season when considering Senate Bill 9 (R-Colburn), a bill that would classify Salvia divinorum, a hallucinogenic herb which is currently legal to use in Maryland, as a Schedule I substance. If passed the bill would impose misdemeanor and felony penalties, including prison terms of up to 20 years for selling salvia.
Salvia has been used for spiritual purposes for centuries by native people of central Mexico. Recent studies have also suggested it may be useful in treating addiction, chronic pain, Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
With psychoactive effects ranging from mild euphoria to out-of-body hallucinations (depending on dosage), salvia has gained popularity among recreational users in the U.S. since the late 1990’s, when it became readily available on the internet and in smoke shops. A federal survey conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in 1996 found that 1.8 million people aged 12 and over had used Salvia divinorum, including nearly 756,000 in that year alone.
While 13 states currently have laws either banning or regulating the possession and sale of salvia, U.S. Congress has yet to schedule it as a controlled substance. In the gap, use by recreational users, many of whom appear unprepared for salvia’s potentially strong effects, has caught the attention of policymakers and law enforcement.
Police in Maryland describe a trend of young people buying Salvia from shops on the boardwalk in Ocean City, then coming into contact with law enforcement while under the influence.
"Without exception, every user has said, quote, 'That stuff should not be legal,' " testified Ocean City Police Capt. Robert Bokinsky at a Jan. 27 preliminary hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Republican lawmakers also point to adverse reactions among users, as documented on Youtube, in justifying a ban on Salvia.
"It's nothing short of disturbing," said Sen. Richard Colburn (R- Wicomico), the bill’s sponsor. "Watch it for yourselves. See how they lose all coordination, experience emotional swings, dizziness and nausea. Now, imagine that person is your child or grandchild."
Supporters of the bill also express concern over the ready availability of salvia, with particular regard to young people. They suggest that Maryland should follow the lead of states that have already banned it.
"It's considered by most scientists to be more potent than LSD, and it's readily accessible to anyone in the state of Maryland who wants to purchase it," said Del. Jeannie Haddaway (R-Talbot), who is sponsoring a similar bill in the House. "All around us, states are restricting it or banning it, and in Maryland you can still get it. Young people who may not have ever tried drugs before can legally purchase this and not realize how potent this is, or what the effect is going to be."
Naomi Long, director of the Washington, D.C.-metro office of the Drug Policy Alliance warns, however, that banning salvia won’t stop young people from accessing it, suggesting that it will only drive it underground.
"Drug dealers do not card," Long said. "Our young people are able to access marijuana exactly because it's out the realm of regulation."
Long urged policymakers to reject the bill in its current form and recommended they find a middle ground. She pointed to the success of tobacco regulation and education in reducing the number of young users.
“We didn’t have to criminalize tobacco or create long prison sentences for cigarettes to achieve these amazing results,” she told the committee. “The decrease was due to quality, comprehensive education al all grade levels about the health consequences of smoking and strict laws about sales to minors.”
Long has been leading the Drug Policy Alliance effort to stop the bill, including distributing a policy brief to legislators, submitting written and in-hearing testimony, and issuing a news advisory to media– which received considerable coverage.
Her work appears to be paying off. Several committee members expressed strong doubt of the bill’s effectiveness in addressing the public health and safety concerns associated with salvia use, citing to the lack of success with other drugs.
"How are we going to win this one when we're miserably failing at the other ones?" asked Sen. James Brochin (D- Baltimore County).
Long is cautiously hopeful about the fate of SB 9 and salvia in Maryland.
“The members in both House and Senate committees asked great questions and seemed to lean toward taking a more deliberate, less punitive approach. They were especially sensitive to salvia's medical value and the past, negative experiences of other war on drugs policies,” she explained.
“However, there is at least one more salvia bill that will be introduced this session, so we are still working hard to make sure salvia is left unscheduled. Several actors, including the States' Attorney's office, want to do something with salvia this year, so most likely a bill will make it to the Governor's desk. The question is ‘will it be more of the same tough-on-crime rhetoric, or something that actually makes a positive impact on communities?”
Long points out that the debate over salvia is creating an opportunity to discuss broader drug policy.
“One legislator approached me after the hearing and suggested a hearing on whether or not criminalizing drugs is the answer to deal with drug problems. That is the debate we always seek to foster with the bills we support; I just didn't realize that opposing a bill would help spark that conversation!”
Salvia a Miracle Drug?
Some researchers argue against criminalizing the psychedelic, saying that it could help treat various ailments, including cancer, HIV, and addiction.
Many parents and legislators view the popular psychedelic Salvia divinorum as a public health menace. But the drug has an unlikely set of supporters: scientists. Many medical researchers view the plant as a potential medical marvel. They believe that rigorous scientific study of salvia could lead to medical breakthroughs yielding new treatments for addiction, depression, cancer, and even HIV.
If lawmakers criminalize salvia at the state or federal level, the ban could cripple salvia research in this country before it has a chance to make any headway, says Dr. John Mendelson, a pharmacologist. With federal financing, Mendelson is studying the impact of salvia on humans at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute.
Packaging label for commercially available Salvia divinorum.
At this writing, salvia is legal to buy, sell, and use in most parts of the United States. However, 13 states have adopted legislation banning or otherwise regulating its use; and legislators in a number of other states, as well as federal officials, are considering regulating the drug.
"Salvia is a totally unique compound, unlike opioids and other hallucinogens," Mendelson says. "We've never seen anything like it before."
Even ten years ago, scientists had paid little attention to salvia. That changed when researchers isolated the active compound in salvia and discovered that it was an extremely powerful short-acting hallucinogen with no known side effects or addictive properties, Mendelson says.
In addition, salvia differs from other psychoactive substances in interacting with specific receptors in the brain that the other drugs don't affect. This unique physiological reaction makes salvia attractive to researchers.
Mendelson says that salvia research could lead to drugs that activate the specific brain receptors engaged by the substance, and block pain without risk of addiction. (Little is currently known about these particular receptors.) Salvia might even help unlock mysteries related to Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia.
"We have been watching with interest and concern the moving drumbeat toward regulations," says Dr. Roland Griffiths, professor of behavioral biology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Griffiths says that criminalizing salvia could hurt research by forcing research labs to follow burdensome regulations similar to those associated with handling cocaine, heroin, and other controlled substances. "We would anticipate that if salvia were scheduled it would increase research costs and place undue red tape on the drug, and delay research," says Griffiths, who is applying for a research grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the effects of salvia on humans.
Other proposals by medical researchers seeking NIH funding would study salvia in connection with drug dependency, HIV, hepatitis B and C, and depression.
Scientists concede that they face an uphill battle in attempting to change attitudes and reverse the trend among states toward creating laws against salvia. At this writing, 13 states already have such laws on the books: Of those 13, 10 (Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Virgina) classify salvia as a Schedule I drug (putting it on the same legal footing as ecstasy and LSD).
In Tennessee, ingesting salvia is a Class A misdemeanor, but possessing the herb is legal. In California and Maine, possession is legal but sale to a minor is prohibited.
Legislation to criminalize salvia is pending in at least 13 more states. For example, an Iowa bill would make salvia possession a felony, while a bill introduced in Massachusetts would make such possession a misdemeanor.
Griffiths and other researchers are even more concerned about what federal officials may do. “A move by the DEA to put salvia on the controlled substances list could be a real possibility,” Griffiths says.
Asked for comment, DEA officials would say only that they are in the process of evaluating salvia.
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