Why is Salvia Legal?
I think this article says it all: “Researchers, herbalists, mental health specialists, and especially addicts are showing interest in a Mexican sacramental herb that contains an anti-addictive pain killer that can even get people off other addicting substances. Salvia Divinorum references show how the herb can address alcohol, cocaine, opiate heroin and morphine, nicotine, tobacco and amphetamine addiction. Opioids mimic the effects of morphine-like substances called endorphins, which are normally produced by the body as a natural defence against pain. They and the narcotic pain killers (analgesics) attach themselves to specific sites on the outside of nerve cells which we have come to refer to as opioid receptors. Without the receptors, endorphins and narcotic analgesics don t work. There are five major groups of opioid receptors: mu, kappa, sigma, delta and epsilon. Narcotic analgesic (pain killing) activity occurs at the mu, kappa and sigma receptors. Opioid agonists (stimulators) s
