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Authorities ask why hallucinogenic herb is legal
#5677349 - 05/26/06 02:35 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA052506.purplehaze.KENS.2231b9d6.html
Authorities ask why hallucinogenic herb is legal
Web Posted: 05/26/2006 01:16 AM CDT
Karen Grace KENS 5 Eyewitness News
A herb that makes you hallucinate is perfectly legal in Texas. The drug is sold without a prescription, and medical experts say it's dangerous.
At the Gas Pipe in Austin, Purple Sticky Salvia is sold for $20, along with a list of safety instructions on how to smoke it.
However, some argue that the list is not enough — the product should be banned by state and federal governments.
Purple Sticky Salvia is an all-natural hallucinogen, made from native plants used in landscaping. In Mexico, it has been used in religious ceremonies for centuries.
"It is something that I think it's very real, and has the potential to do some real damage," said Dr. John Roache, a clinical pharmacologist at the University of Texas Health Science Center.
Roache is skeptical of the herb salvia divinorum, which can also be purchased online. One place it can't be found is on the Drug Enforcement Agency's list of controlled substances, and experts say that's a problem.
"I do consider it very dangerous, and I think it's only a matter of time before it will become illegal," Roache said.
Now teens are using it for their own trips.
"For a few minutes you see stuff, you hallucinate for a little bit," user Steve Fanning said.
D.A.R.E. coordinator Dep. George Little is baffled by the product's accessibility.
"There comes a time when somebody ought to say enough is enough," Little said.
He says if people are smoking it and hallucinating, then it needs to be off the market.
"Just because something's legal, doesn't necessarily make it right," Little said.
So far, a handful of states are considering outlawing this drug. Louisiana and Missouri have already done so, and several other countries have named it a controlled substance.
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Re: Authorities ask why hallucinogenic herb is legal [Re: motaman]
#5677428 - 05/26/06 02:57 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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wow what a bunch of patriots. so loyal to whats right and whats wrong... in their view.
this article makes me sick. stupid fat pigs. of course those salvia addicts are causing so much harm by minding their own fuckin business.
and wtf is purple sticky salvia? lol some marketing BS?
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Re: Authorities ask why hallucinogenic herb is legal [Re: motaman]
#5677760 - 05/26/06 05:15 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: Authorities ask why hallucinogenic herb is legal [Re: motaman]
#5677930 - 05/26/06 06:12 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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"Just because something's legal, doesn't necessarily make it right," Little said.
And vice versa asshole
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Re: Authorities ask why hallucinogenic herb is legal [Re: Microcosmatrix]
#5679702 - 05/27/06 06:45 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
Microcosmatrix said:
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"Just because something's legal, doesn't necessarily make it right," Little said.
And vice versa asshole
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Re: Authorities ask why hallucinogenic herb is legal [Re: Microcosmatrix]
#5683977 - 05/28/06 05:34 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
Microcosmatrix said:
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"Just because something's legal, doesn't necessarily make it right," Little said.
And vice versa asshole

Bravo, I also want to say this, just because its a hallucinogen doesnt make it all that much fun. IMO Salvia is way to intense, not like my good buddies the Psybes, and of course my best friends LSD, and Peyote.
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Re: Authorities ask why hallucinogenic herb is legal [Re: downlowfunk]
#5684338 - 05/28/06 07:10 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Everyone has their choice of psychedelics. Just because some little policeman says "let's take it away from them" doesn't mean all too much. Historically they've never been sucessful at taking anything away from us, all they do is raise the prices and make money off tossing good people into the prison system.
I do agree though with the premise of your thought though. It's not like Salvia is going to change much anyhow. I don't see why they're getting so overly worried about it. They're paranoid I guess.
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Re: Authorities ask why hallucinogenic herb is legal [Re: Microcosmatrix]
#5684359 - 05/28/06 07:21 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Authorities ask why hallucinogenic herb is legal
HERB HERB HERD
Maybe because its a herb. Wholy fuck its like damn why is herb tea legal its a fucking herb fuck that man.
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Re: Authorities ask why hallucinogenic herb is legal [Re: mikeownow]
#5684366 - 05/28/06 07:24 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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They fight wars against seeds, how do they think they can exterminate a plant that over 1/2 of mankind cherishes? Who do they think they are?
Marijuana is connection. Connect the god damn dots.
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Re: Authorities ask why hallucinogenic herb is legal [Re: Microcosmatrix]
#5684951 - 05/28/06 10:46 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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SuperD asks why Authorities think they have any fucking right to ask why hallucinogenic herb is legal
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Re: Authorities ask why hallucinogenic herb is legal [Re: motaman]
#5685426 - 05/29/06 01:28 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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One place it can't be found is on the Drug Enforcement Agency's list of controlled substances, and experts say that's a problem.
well if they "experts" say so...
He says if people are smoking it and hallucinating, then it needs to be off the market.
"Just because something's legal, doesn't necessarily make it right," Little said.
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Re: Authorities ask why hallucinogenic herb is legal [Re: motaman]
#5685497 - 05/29/06 02:01 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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He says if people are smoking it and hallucinating, then it needs to be off the market.
I mean seriously... what the fuck. No reasoning, no justification. Just, if people hallucinate from something it should be illegal. I want someone's honest answer as to why tripping in a controlled environment is so terrible. Is it the threat of them somehow gaining access to heavy machinery? Is it the notion of someone finding enlightenment without going to church? Is it the threat of someone becoming disloyal to the government? I want one of these people to come up with a straight answer and not sidestep it with something like "its unnatural" or "its dangerous to the brain."
Fuckin idiots
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Re: Authorities ask why hallucinogenic herb is legal [Re: CUBErt]
#5686230 - 05/29/06 12:18 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah, I've never found anything wrong with hallucinating, and I've done it enough that I'm a bigger "expert" than any of those pencil pushing lying pigs will ever be.
Go ahead and experiment with psychedelics kids, it's O.K.
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Re: Authorities ask why hallucinogenic herb is legal [Re: Microcosmatrix]
#5686298 - 05/29/06 12:38 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I don't understand what making it illegal achieves. How many people have gotten hurt or died on salvia? Where is the evidence of the real danger? Fucking prescription drugs are making people hallucinate (not visually but mentally) daily, I don't see any parade to do away with them.
I guess visual hallucinations are more dangerous than a dude who's lost his marbles but can see fine enough to get in his car and drive.
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Re: Authorities ask why hallucinogenic herb is legal [Re: kake]
#5686406 - 05/29/06 01:05 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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It doesn't have to be dangerous to the user to be illegal, just dangerous to the system.
It started legal because not many people knew about it, and making it illegal at that time would only serve to make it more known.
Now that it has become well known on its own, they can make it illegal now because doing so won't actually boost its popularity.
Making something illegal is designed to decrease a substance's popularity artificially by preventing all the people who aren't willing to break the law in order to use it, from using it. Even when had it been legal, they would have.
It's the power-mongers fighting dirty. Fighting against common-sense and decency.
Because, after all, if drugs were really so bad, they wouldn't need to be illegal, no one would do them anyway...
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Re: Authorities ask why hallucinogenic herb is legal [Re: Microcosmatrix]
#5689179 - 05/30/06 12:15 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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^ Amen
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