With nine more states eliminating or loosening their laws against marijuana in 2016, weed is now legal in more states than its hallucinogenic cousin: salvia. There hasn’t been a political coalescence ...
The Mazatac Indians have used salvia for centuries with no obvious ill effects, but it remains unclear whether salvia causes long-term effects on the brain or body. However, physical and psychological ...
The effects of smoking Salvia divinorum are surprisingly strong, brief and intensely disorienting, but without apparent short-term adverse effects in healthy people, according to a new study by Johns ...
The normally staid Associated Press attached a headline to a March 11 story that inquired, “Is Salvia the Next Marijuana?” If the AP meant to ask whether Salvia divinorum is the next misunderstood ...
After the Jan. 8 Tucson shooting, when 22-year-old Jared Loughner killed eight and injured 13 while allegedly using salvia, many Boston University students and faculty members said they feel the drug ...
I do prevention work with alcohol and drugs, so I am a consumer and a researcher in the field, and I need to keep up with the drug use fashion. Drugs come into fashion and leave fashion, and sometimes ...
At first, the YouTube videos seemed hilarious -- young people smoking Salvia divinorum, laughing uncontrollably, falling over furniture. But the more Jason Daniel, a fourth-year PhD candidate in ...
Nurse practitioners can screen youths for substance abuse at every wellness visit and when episodic illness suggests substance use or abuse as a differential diagnosis. Nurse practitioners can also ...
I do prevention work with alcohol and drugs, so I am a consumer and a researcher in the field, and I need to keep up with the drug use fashion. Drugs come into fashion and leave fashion, and sometimes ...