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Banez
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Sally B makes Headlines in Columbus
#5540321 - 04/21/06 08:22 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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well i just got done reading the newspaper.. and there it was "hullicinagenic herb".. the paragraph was stacked full of lies, and untruths.. that just simply infruated me while i read it
it talked about a store owner on campus who reported people coming in telling how fucked up they got, talked about how salvinon-A is the strongest hullcingen.. and how it was blammed for a suicide in massachuettes.. and pretty much everything possible that could be said.. negatively, was.. so im guessing it will be outlawed here as well soon
god i hate the media
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Re: Sally B makes Headlines in Columbus [Re: Banez]
#5540335 - 04/21/06 08:27 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Go in and talk to the news paper and send in your own colums.
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Re: Sally B makes Headlines in Columbus [Re: barfightlard]
#5540341 - 04/21/06 08:30 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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are you being sarcastic?.. or serious.. i cant tell
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Re: Sally B makes Headlines in Columbus [Re: Banez]
#5540362 - 04/21/06 08:39 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Lol. Not to hate man, but you should really use the spell check feature if you are going to criticize someone else's writing/accuracy. "Hullcingen", "salvinon-A", "Sally-B"...
I agree with you though, it's a drag to see this process happen yet again with yet another basically-harmless substance.
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Re: Sally B makes Headlines in Columbus [Re: Banez]
#5540367 - 04/21/06 08:42 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Can you post the article?
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Re: Sally B makes Headlines in Columbus [Re: abrad84]
#5540369 - 04/21/06 08:43 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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hmm.. i could try and find it.. give me a couple minz
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Re: Sally B makes Headlines in Columbus [Re: Banez]
#5540371 - 04/21/06 08:44 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hallucinogenic herb legal but worrisome Local shops reporting brisk sales of ?Sally B? Friday, April 21, 2006 Dennis Fiely THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Linn Keo hears a familiar refrain from her customers who try Salvia divinorum.
"The first question everybody asks is, ?How can this stuff be legal?? " she said.
Keo, 21, is a cashier at Dream Merchant, near the Ohio State University campus, one of many Columbus-area specialty stores that sells the powerful hallucinogenic herb.
"Some people compare it to LSD," Keo said.
Known simply as "salvia" or by its slang name "Sally B," Salvia divinorum has been on the Columbus market for at least four years, retailers said, and available through the Internet since the mid-?90s.
Although the herb has been outlawed in Louisiana and Missouri and several countries, many legislators, law-enforcement officials and drug-treatment specialists have never heard of it.
The federal Drug Enforcement Administration is investigating whether Salvia divinorum should be a controlled substance.
"People need to know that just because salvia is legal doesn?t mean it is safe," said DEA spokesman Rusty Payne. "This is definitely a chemical of concern."
A cousin of a flowering sage common in gardens, the plant packs a mighty punch when smoked, chewed or brewed into a tea.
Its active ingredient, salvinorin-A, "is probably the most potent naturally occurring hallucinogen," said former Ohio State faculty member Thomas E. Prisinzano, a medical researcher at the University of Iowa.
Other members of the salvia family do not contain the mind-altering compound.
Ray Slaughter smoked the divinorum species for the first time about six months ago. It might be his last time.
The high "was beautiful and frightening at the same time," said Slaughter, 33, of Columbus. "I am going to reflect on it for a couple of years before I think about doing it again."
Robert Anton Wilson has smoked it about 15 times. "I have no sense of time or identity," said the 30-year-old OSU student. "I don?t want to move at all."
The plant grows wild in southern Mexico, where Mazatec Indians have used it for centuries in spiritual rituals.
It caught the eyes of teens and young adults in the United States when it was marketed on the Internet as a legal alternative to marijuana and LSD.
Distributors recommend that people take the herb in a safe, comfortable environment with a sober "sitter" present to prevent accidents.
"It concerns the hell out of me," said Dr. Peter Rogers, a drug-treatment specialist at Children?s Hospital. "I don?t think it is addictive or will kill you if you take too much, but what it can lead to is scary. You don?t want to be smoking this stuff and driving a car."
Rogers worries that Salvia divinorum could induce fear, panic and anxiety.
"You don?t know what kids who use this stuff are going to do," he said.
Parents in the state of Delaware blamed its use for their 17-year-old son?s suicide earlier this year. Animal studies have linked it to depression, Prisinzano said.
Rogers estimated that 15 of the 100 teenagers he sees each year in the Substance Abuse Assessment Clinic at Children?s Hospital have tried it.
Stores typically sell the herb as dried or crushed leaves and in a liquid extract. Prices range from $4 a gram for the whole leaf to $20 to $60 a gram ? depending on potency ? for the crushed leaves or extract.
One "hit" from a water pipe can produce hallucinations that last up to an hour, Prisinzano said, although most trips are shorter.
Stores surveyed by The Dispatch reported selling a few grams a week, but "you can get a lot of doses out of one gram," Prisinzano said.
Retailers say interest in the herb appears to be increasing.
"A lot of people are coming in for it," said Aaron Ryan, a cashier at Waterbeds and Stuff on Polaris Parkway. "It used to sit here forever, and now we are having trouble keeping it in stock."
"People use it for recreation," he added. "I suppose you could call it a legal high."
Researchers are studying Salvia divinorum?s unusual effect on the brain to try to learn more about Alzheimer?s disease and other mental illnesses that alter perceptions of reality, Prisinzano said.
The active ingredient affects a different part of the brain than LSD and other hallucinogens to trigger a "trip" characterized by the feeling of being transported to another place and time.
Slaughter described his sensation "as if I were a cell in the plant and the life of the plant was flowing through me."
The intensity of the experience combined with the absence of euphoria limits the drug?s appeal, users and retailers said.
"It is not a party drug," Slaughter said. "Fun is not a word I would use to describe it ? the experience is too deep for that."
Keo tried it once and said, "I don?t think I want to go back there."
Customers "either love it or hate it," she said.
Slaughter and Wilson said it troubled them that teenagers were taking the drug. But they defended their use as a pathway to self-awareness and spiritual enlightenment.
The high "is what Zen monks spend years trying to achieve," Wilson said.
Poppycock, Rogers said.
??This is just one more drug kids can take to send confusing messages to their brains. There?s nothing mystical about it."
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Re: Sally B makes Headlines in Columbus [Re: Banez]
#5540393 - 04/21/06 09:00 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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WTF... Robert Anton Wilson???
Whoever wrote this article doesn't have a clue.
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Re: Sally B makes Headlines in Columbus [Re: Banez]
#5540394 - 04/21/06 09:00 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I don't like that stuff.
I ripped a bong of leaves and the trailer i used to live in turned into a flowing river and and my mind was just like
babababababababababababbababaawawawawawawwawawawawawawwawawawawawawabababababababababababba and i was like this sucks and i ran around panicking and thinking id have to try and build hydro static transmissions on level 4 at work and i thought i was gonna loose my job and it was insta horrible trip my whole life was ruined all in the 3 minutes that bong rip lasted. 
I cant believe there are jerks out there smoking 20x extract and thinking its cool.
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Re: Sally B makes Headlines in Columbus [Re: Mezcal]
#5540395 - 04/21/06 09:02 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
snyder said: WTF... Robert Anton Wilson???
Whoever wrote this article doesn't have a clue.
thats exactly how i felt through the whole article.. i felt soo like infuriated.. like almost as thou people were telling lies about me.. that article is rediculous propaganda for the DEA
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Re: Sally B makes Headlines in Columbus [Re: Banez]
#5540405 - 04/21/06 09:10 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hahaha that's pretty funny actually, sounds like this college student they interviewed duped them and gave them RAW as his name...
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