Salvia raises without indicators of security in a small test (NPR)

For centuries, the people of Oaxaca, Mazatec to Mexico, shamans used a plant called Salvia divinorum in their religious practices.

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Smoking salvia may send you a loop for, but it seems not particularly dangerous for people in good health.

Wikimedia Commons Smoking salvia may send you a loop for, but it seems not particularly dangerous for people in good health.

Salvia is a member of the Mint family. Quit you it gives an explosion of Salvinorin A, a psychoactive substance.

More recently, the American people in North America recreational drug users used the drug in a variety of social media. Now, the people of medical research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore took a scientific eye of Salvinorin A. Their conclusion of a study of small security: it packs a punch that can mess with your mind, but probably not hurt your body.

 

Behavioral pharmacologist Hopkins Matthew w. Johnson and colleagues administered Salvinorin A four volunteers, picked because they psychologically and physically healthy and have extensive experience with hallucinogenic drugs. Volunteers inhaled various doses of chemical substance or placebo 20 times a few months.

Reported in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, little known issues if any physical side effects, but all subjects reported intense psychological experiments with the drug.

Johnson has quite a bit of experience with psychoactive drugs research. He studied the hallucinogen psilocybin for a decade. He says the high of Salvinorin A is very different.

Although the perceptions of a person are altered on psilocybin, "people still report being in this world, so to speak" Johnson tells Shots. "They can interact with friends. They can pick up objects. They might have very different experiences of the world, and they may feel they're experiences beyond this world. But in a sense they are still "here." "

For a journey of Salvinorin A, people are almost comatose and experiencing a completely different reality. "They say that they are interacting with things that they call"entities"or type angels,"Johnson says.""

The Department of justice, says three-quarters of a million people try the drug every year.

Part of the popularity of salvia may be due to the fact that this is not a crime to possess, even if the DOJ says October 2009, 14 States have passed laws controlling its use.

Johnson did not complete its study of Salvinorin A to reassure the stoners. He acts of the drug on a track of brain that is involved in certain conditions, it is possible the chemical or medications as it may have a future therapeutic.