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Salvia divinorum (Latin: sage of the diviners; also called ska maría pastora, seer's sage, yerba de la pastora, magic mint or simply salvia) is a species of plant in the sage genus Salvia, known for its transient psychoactive properties when its leaves, or extracts made from the leaves, are administered by smoking, chewing, or drinking (as a ...
In late 2002, Rep. Joe Baca (D- California) introduced a bill (Congress bill HR 5607) to schedule salvia as a controlled substance at the national level. Those opposed to Joe Baca's bill include Daniel Siebert, who sent a letter to Congress arguing against the proposed legislation, [1] and the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE), who sent key members of the US Congress a report on ...
Many dream-enhancing plants such as dream herb (Calea zacatechichi) and African dream herb (Entada rheedii), as well as the hallucinogenic diviner's sage (Salvia divinorum), have been used for thousands of years in a form of divination through dreams, called oneiromancy, in which practitioners seek to receive psychic or prophetic information ...
Daniel Siebert at the 2004 Mind States Oaxaca conference. Daniel J. Siebert was an ethnobotanist, pharmacognosist, and author who lived in Southern California. [1]Siebert had studied Salvia divinorum for over twenty years and was the first person to unequivocally identify (by human bioassays in 1993 [2]) Salvinorin A as the primary psychoactive substance of Salvia divinorum.
Salvinorin A is the main active psychotropic molecule in Salvia divinorum.Salvinorin A is considered a dissociative hallucinogen. [3] [4]It is structurally distinct from other naturally occurring hallucinogens (such as DMT, psilocybin, and mescaline) because it contains no nitrogen atoms; hence, it is not an alkaloid (and cannot be rendered as a salt), but rather is a terpenoid. [3]
Salvia potentillifolia (salvinorin B, 2352.0 μg/g) [2] Salvia adenocaulon (salvinorin B, 768.8 μg/g) [2] For comparison, the amount of salvinorin A in S. divinorum ranges from 0.89 to 3.70 mg/g. All fractions reported are based on dry mass. [2] Interestingly, the above reported species are not very closely related to S. divinorum. [2]
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