Salvia is a drug that produces visual hallucinogenic effects similar to those people can experience with narcotics such as LSD. Some users claim that they have mystical and spiritual experiences after taking it. Salvia, or Salvia divinorum , is an herbal mint plant and a naturally occurring hallucinogen that is native to Mexico.
It is a member of the sage family. People use it as a recreational drug. The long-term impact of using it remains unclear. In this article, we find out what salvia is, how it works, and explain the effects and risks of taking it as a recreational drug. Salvia has become popular as a recreational drug among adolescents and young adults.
It is fast acting and thought to have a low incidence of side effects. Also, it has a low addiction potential, people can easily obtain it, and they do not consider it highly toxic.
Mazatec Indians have used salvia for centuries for spiritual divination, shamanism, and medical practices. An agonist attaches to and activates specific central nervous system receptors that are mainly in the brain. The KOR seems to play a key role in regulating human perception. Mazatec Indians have used salvia for centuries. People have reported visions of a woman or sacred objects during hallucinations. Mazatec shamans brew a tea from the leaves and drink the vision-inducing mixture during religious ceremonies.
Recreational users may inhale the drug through water pipes known as hookahs, smoke it in cigarettes, or chew the leaves while holding the juice inside the cheek. The body absorbs the psychoactive components through the mucous membranes.
People usually experience the most intense effects within 2 minutes after smoking. They last for less than 20 minutes. However, like other legal highs, it may not be safe or legal. It's also particularly intense, and unique: it evades comparison to any other kind of drug, he adds.
In contrast to the effects of other psychoactive substances, the experience of salvia is also quite hard to pin down or characterize simply, with many people having quite different trips, he says. But one common thread that ran through most of the trips was that salvia changes a person's "interoception"—the body's sense of its own physiological conditions.
And it also seemed to alter self-awareness and sense of reality. Nearly 60 percent reported similar feelings of disorientation, with some forgetting where they were in space. A few people completely forgot that they had smoked salvia and couldn't remember why they were in the lab in the first place, Addy says.
Salvia changed the way people perceived their own bodies. It also affected people's sense of what was real. Nine of the 30 said that they became completely unaware of their surroundings, undergoing an experience that was completely removed from the "reality" of the laboratory setting.
A total of 11 participants "sensed other people or beings" during their experiences. A number of participants reported emotional changes: one-third said it made them happy, and four people described being scared. Only two people had what Addy described as a "bad trip," meaning a difficult experience marked with anxiety.
But once the effects wore off, they were fine, he says. Throat and lung irritation, headaches and mild irritability have been reported after using salvia.
Most physical harms resulting from using salvia occur as a result of people injuring themselves when under the influence of salvia, rather than salvia directly causing harm. There is some concern that salvia could trigger psychotic episodes, particularly in young people and people with previous history of, or a family history of, mental health problems. Like drink-driving, driving when high is dangerous and illegal.
If the police catch people supplying illegal drugs in a home, club, bar or hostel, they can potentially prosecute the landlord, club owner or any other person concerned in the management of the premises. If you or someone else needs urgent help after taking drugs or drinking, call for an ambulance. Tell the crew everything you know. It could save their life.
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