Rich history of Salvia
Today when we think of Salvia we probably think “currently legal hallucinogenic that will soon be banned”. And we’d probably be right. But just a few years ago the drug was hardly known at all. Salvia was a relative unknown in the legal hallucinogen world.
The breakthrough for Salvia came late in 1998 when a UK documentary analyzed the drug and asked what its future was. Surely, the documentary said, this thing would be more popular if more people knew about it. How right they were: the word about Salvia got out quickly and its popularity spread. College students especially were enamored with Salvia and it was from a University paper that many of the bigger news outlets first found out about the drug.
In the early part of the turn of the century outlets selling Salvia started appearing over the Internet. The word got out and these Internet stores. Unaffected by the stigma attached to physical outlets by those who disapproved of the sale of mind altering hallucinogenics the stores have done a roaring trade. They are still popular today as Salvia goes through what may be its death throes.
Despite this rich history Salvia remains woefully misunderstood and those that want to bad are driven by PR and public perception rather than hard facts. But then what decisions don’t have this basis?
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