Smoking salvia is gaining popularity by the week, and salvia stores are popping up everywhere. Salvia divinorum is very cheap and is mostly legal, and it isn't addictive. Salvia extract is something that needs to be measured out before loading into a pipe or being smoked. Salvia is a naturally grown, mint-like leaf which has been equated to providing users with experiences similar to that of the mind-altering drug LSD.

Cheap salvia is the stuff sold on ebay by young teens using acetone and sending you God knows what. Smoking salvia extract has helped depression as well as drug addiction and this has been proven on many occasions. For good salvia, make sure and buy more then 5 grams at a time as you can end up cutting the price by over 80% or more per gram.

While salvia can be quite a strong drug, the claim that it produces "hysteria," "total confusion" and "near-madness" as a "side effect" doesn't correspond at all to a drug whose effects are more typically described as wearing off within five or ten minutes and leaving the user with a mild sense of euphoria. Parents need to be educated to keep all drugs out of their kids reach, and govern their kids activities online.

The claim that "young people are dying" from salvia is not backed up by empirical evidence, and, oddly enough, is contradicted by many scientific reports, which state that "medical experts and accident and emergency rooms have not reported any particular health concerns" about the drug. The salvia panic "is essentially an extension of the old drug-war debate in that there's this knee-jerk reflex on the part of legislators to criminalize first and ask questions later, if ever.

Extract concentration is how much "salvinorin a" (the hallucinogenic chemical) has been extracted and put back into the leaves. Purity means how much of the chemicals they washed off after extraction. You can find leaf soaked in extract at some head shops, that it pretty potent. I found that a good 10x extract only requires a moderate sized puff for a full blown break through.

Side effects include uncontrollable hysteria, an out of body experience, and a feeling of total confusion or near-madness. Buying salvia does not need to be difficult but be careful if you want to buy salvia using paypal.