# Have you tried Salvia divinorum? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 19, 2000, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-tried-salvia-divinorum/41831 "2000-11-19T06:59:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-tried-salvia-divinorum/41831/1 "2000-11-19T06:59:06Z")
I’ve been reading on the web about Salvia divinorum, a legal herb that allegedly makes the user high as a kite. Have any of you or someone you know tried it, and if so, what were its effects? ---
**Author:** ![Meephead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b782af/32.png) [@Meephead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meephead)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-tried-salvia-divinorum/41831/2 "2000-11-19T08:28:22Z")
If you look here, you can find out all kinds of fascinating stuff about whatever mind altering substances are out there–legal and illegal. There are reviews of substances, good, bad, and indifferent. Salvia specific: [www.erowid.org/plants/salvia/salvia.shtml](http://www.erowid.org/plants/salvia/salvia.shtml) The main website: [www.erowid.org/psychoactives/psychoactives.shtml](http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/psychoactives.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-tried-salvia-divinorum/41831/3 "2000-11-19T17:51:01Z")
Good site, Meep. I don’t intend to use this stuff, I’m just fasinated by all the things that are being marketed as alternatives to illegal drugs. I wonder why, if this stuff gets you stoned, the powers that be don’t try to outlaw it. I never hear about things like this on the news. “Your kids may be getting high…LEGALLY!” type stories. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-tried-salvia-divinorum/41831/4 "2000-11-20T04:36:21Z")
Note that this plant is related to Salvia officinalis, the herb sage. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-tried-salvia-divinorum/41831/5 "2000-11-22T03:48:09Z")
Where do ya get the stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-tried-salvia-divinorum/41831/6 "2000-11-22T04:28:42Z")
I’m really sad not to provide a proper cite for this, but I remember reading (in a reprint of an old herbal) that these far-out salvia users run the risk of dying from “an excess of joy.” Maybe those old writers just couldn’t get the idea that simplistic soundbite warnings are meant to be scary.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-tried-salvia-divinorum/41831/7 "2000-11-22T04:58:15Z")
Try [http://www.wildflowersofheaven.com/cactus.html](http://www.wildflowersofheaven.com/cactus.html) Just past halfway down the page. Or so I’ve heard. ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-tried-salvia-divinorum/41831/8 "2000-11-22T05:57:19Z")
Wonko: IIRC, Manny said that any discussion of drugs, etc., was okay, but asking where to get it, who sells it, where to find a seller, etc., was crossing over. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-tried-salvia-divinorum/41831/9 "2000-11-22T05:58:21Z")
Doh! But it’s legal. Ignore my idiocy. –Tim