Herbs used as Legal Highs
In the modern world some people, especially teens, are fond of using drugs and herbal highs, legally or illegally. They are using this kind of drug to achieve the state of being ‘high’, or the trancelike state commonly recognised as having reached ‘outer space’, in spite of its harmful effects on the body.
Herbal highs, especially marijuana, are prohibited in most countries around the world. However, in some places including some US states and Canadian provinces, many students and kids are buying and using the herb salvia divinorum, a member of the mint family that grows in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is said that this herb can create an out-of-body experience. Law enforcement can’t stop the students from using this herb because it is legal to sell, buy, possess and use in Mexico and most of the US. Canadian law enforcement says that they can’t control the heavy use of consciousness-altering drugs that is happening, especially in schools in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. And cops can’t do anything about salvia because it contains a legal substance that is being sold in the so-called head shops and health food stores.
This herb has long been used by Mexicans for spiritual trips and can be smoked or eaten. Some groups in schools also imbibe; that is why many parents have been calling the police. The police state that salvia should be classified as an illegal substance, like the other hallucinogens, and they note that this kind of herb is already illegal in seven US states.