DNKYD said:

#1 - Salvia has been on Fark before.

#2 - Trying to argue facts and common with the people of Fark is as futile as naming a cat.

#3 - Lies spread easier than facts

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"the greater risk of salvia is not really the health effects but what people may or may not do or the choices they make while they're under the influence of that drug"

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2006-11-06 02:16:27 Microbe wrote:

Salvia is not a recreational drug. PERIOD.

It is a sacred psychotropic plant which contains large amounts of DMT.

Unfortunately, without any real MAO inhibitors, it only lasts for about 10 minutes (this is a good thing IMHO).

I'll tell you a little story of my experience with it.

I am sitting in the living room with my three buddies. They are there to watch me and make sure I don't physically harm myself in the confusion. There is no music or other sound, as sounds can actually manifest into undesireable hallucinations. I smoke the bowl my friend has loaded for me.

For 10 seconds I don't think anything is going to happen, then I am no longer in my own living room...

I am standing on a playground with a bunch of kids in black and white school uniforms, a teacher is standing in the school doorway ringing a bell. Everyone starts to run towards the building (This movement is very very intense, I feel like I am being swept along on a current). The colors all begin to swirl and fade into each other in the movement and suddenly there is no longer a recognizable scene but a series of patterns and visions. Everything is moving innexorably, pulling me along with it. It is like there is a giant vacuum cleaner somewhere to the upper left of where I am and it is sucking everything, including me, into it(I am still not in my living room, but completely in a hallucinogenic state of moving color and patterns). I felt like I was traveling at a very fast speed and being pulled into new shapes, stretched like taffy.

Suddenly there are more people running, thousands of them. I look closely and can see every detail on them, even though they are either far away or very small. Thousands of them, all moving from the right of my vision towards the left. These people all have on different colored shirts, pants, etc. As they run in from the right, they run to a spot and kneel down. Thousands more follow and begin to kneel next to the others. Suddenly I start to see a pattern in the colors of their clothing as they all line up next to each other. More are running in from the right and kneeling next to the others. The picture is becoming more and more clear, I can almost make it out (think of each person as a colored pixel, as they find a spot, the pixels begin to create an image). Suddenly I recognize the image. It is my living room wall. I am back, sort of.

There are three old ladies arguing in my head. I can hear them distinctly. I look over and notice for the first time that my friend is sitting next to me (he has been all along). There is a hole in the cieling and the entire room including us, is being bent and warped and pulled into the hole, but even though we are moving towards it, we never actually get there. I am not sure where my body is, as I am not attached to it.

I have a startling thought, "you really did it this time, you have made yourself insane". I am scared at this thought. I look over at my buddy who gave me the Salvia and ask him, "Am I gonna to be able to come back from this?!" He says, "yes, its almost over. You're gonna to be fine." The old ladies are still arguing in my head but now I can "hear" my own thoughts starting to take back over. The room is still swirling and breathing, I feel like an eye floating bodyless in a maelstrom of color and movement.

After several more minutes of intense aural and visual hallucination, I finally have a realization of my own body again. I am myself and in my own skin again. I am on the couch in my living room (right where I have been the entire time).

In 10 minutes the entire thing is over.

I realized that the world of psychotropic vision is not something to be bandied with. It is not looking at the world with rose colored glasses, it is being removed from this plane and entering another space. It is the closest thing to catatonic schizophrenia a sane person can experience.

Salvia is not a party folks. It has been used for sacred visions for centuries. It is definitely not kids stuff.

BTW, of the four people I know who have tried it, three will never do it again.

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nobhdy said:

hmmm it contains DMT, eh?

sad. the only people sticking up for it are stupid

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