The Perennial Legal High

Salvia Divinorum falls under the perennial herb category. It has mint-like properties and is known to have magical properties that can put its user in a state of visionary consciousness. Long before, this legal high was widely used by the Mazatec ancient healers. The leaves are initially used for healing and divination. This is the reason why it is alternately called as the ‘seer’s sage’ or ‘diviner’s sage’.

Visionary Experiences with Salvia Divinorum

Long before, the Mazatec shamans extract the juices of the plant’s leaves by crushing them. The juice will then be mixed with water to create a tea or an infusion. The resulting solution is drunk during the tribe’s healing ceremonies. The stem may have the same effects as well, although majority of the active ingredient is concentrated on the leaves.

Right now, the use of Salvia Divinorum has evolved. While it can still be made into a tea, a lot of people who would like to experience its effect create a smoking joint out of it. These herbs can also be chewed in their pure form. Others make a tincture out of it and then sell it out in the market.

Dried salvia is usually smoked with a regular pipe although most people prefer to use water pipers for it. The best way to burn the leaves is with the use of a butane torch lighter, which can produce heat of up to 240 degrees Celsius.

Users of this herb claim that the psychedelic effects of this herb include uncontrollable laughter, recount of past memories, extreme motion sensation, hallucinatory visions, merging with objects, and experiencing of overlapping realities.

All of these effects can be attained faster or slower, depending upon the method used in taking in the herb. When smoked, users would normally experience the visionary effect after a minute or so, lasting as abruptly as it came. When chewed, the effect could come much slower, usually after 20 minutes. But it could stay for as long as a full hour and a half. When taken as a tincture, the effect is relatively the same as the chewed variant although its intensity may increase or decrease depending on the potency of the extract.

Salvia Divinorum can do all of these because of its active component, the Salvinorin A. In the US, this ingredient is approved for medical use, thus making the herb a good source of legal high. This herb is believed to have intense psychic effect to its user, with them recounting that everything around them to moving in surreal shapes, vivid colors, and bright lights the moment they’re under the influence. There is also this feeling of having one’s body disintegrated and distorted along with the rest of the objects around them.