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Salvia Divinorum: Virginia House Passes Ban (Virginia residents - Call your state senators)
    #7982972 - 02/05/08 02:57 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Salvia Divinorum: Virginia House Passes Ban
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/519/virginia_house_votes_ban_salvia_divinorum

A bill to ban the hallucinogenic herb Salvia divinorum was
approved by a vote of 98-0 in the Virginia House of Delegates
Tuesday, paving the way for the Old Dominion to join the handful
of states and localities that have already criminalized the
member of the mint family. The measure now moves to the state
senate.

Salvia divinorum produces powerful but short-lived psychedelic
effects. Once obscure, it has become increasingly well-known
thanks to Internet-spread word of mouth. While the DEA considers
it a "drug of interest," the agency has yet to move to designate
it a controlled substance, and it remains freely available over
the Internet or at various retail outlets in locales that have
not banned it.

Sponsored by Delegate John O'Bannon (R-Henrico), HB21
(http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+sum+HB21) would
move salvia from unrestricted status to a Schedule I controlled
substance under Virginia law. O'Bannion said he introduced the
bill after receiving suggestions he do so from law enforcement.

"It's really not a pleasant thing to take. It can cause bad
trips, dysphoria and sweats," O'Bannon said.

Which is why, despite all the hullabaloo, salvia has not emerged
as a popular drug. Most users are quite happy to limit
themselves to using it once or twice.

O'Bannion demonstrated an idiosyncratic view of individual
liberties as he discussed his bill. "I'm respectful of
individual liberties and public good. I think what's happening
is this is becoming a drug that can be misused," O'Bannon said.
"Putting it on the Schedule I will not harm anybody," he said,
but would make "a reasonable balance between public safety and
civil individual liberties."

Of course, putting salvia on Schedule I, where its users would
be subject to the same prison terms as the users of other
proscribed drugs, would harm those people unfortunate enough to
be arrested with it. But O'Bannion and his fellow delegates
apparently didn't consider the impact that being caged in jails
or prisons for long periods of time has on individual liberty.

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Here is a list of Virginia state senators:

http://sov.state.va.us/SenatorDB.nsf/$$Viewtemplate%2Bfor%2BWMembershipHome?OpenForm

And a link about contacting Virginia state representatives:

http://legis.state.va.us/1_cit_guide/contacting_my.html

Here is a link to the proposed state law:

http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+fuh+HB21E+407482

How to track a bill through the Virginia state legislature:

http://legis.state.va.us/1_cit_guide/how_track.html


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Re: Salvia Divinorum: Virginia House Passes Ban (Virginia residents - Call your state senators) [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #7983233 - 02/05/08 04:16 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

Alan Rockefeller said:
But O'Bannion and his fellow delegates
apparently didn't consider the impact that being caged in jails
or prisons for long periods of time has on individual liberty.




oohhhh diss! count it !

..wait a minute, is his name o' bannon or o' bannion? are these two separate people?! this is all too much, somebody needs to tell these people to fuck off.


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