Using a water-pipe bong and a cigarette lighter is a popular method. Using matches is risky, as you are likely to drop it as soon as the drug kicks in. The problem with smoking dried salvia leaf is that you need to inhale a great deal of thick smoke over 2 or 3 minutes to get an effective dose as the leaves naturally contain so little of the drug.
This is unpleasant, probably unhealthy, and difficult to achieve for most people. However, salvia for smoking is now mostly purchased in the form of dried, ground-up salvia leaf which frequently has had a concentrated salvia extract added. This allows the entire dose of Salvinorin A to be consumed in just a few puffs or even just one inhalation. This gives a large risk of having an unpleasantly overwhelming experience.
Extreme caution must be taken with these products. If you intend to use them, start small and work your way up, rather than jumping in at the deep end. Concentrated salvia leaf looks a bit like dark dried herbs. This product is usually described by how many times the potency of the original dried salvia leaf has been fortified e.
Quality control for products like these is virtually non-existent. This means that if you buy salvia you cannot rely on the claimed strength of the extract being trustworthy and there is the possibility that salvinorin A may be replaced by another substance.
Experience reports on websites like Erowid. Salvia is a very unusual dissociative hallucinogen which does not have the same action in the brain as LSD and other classical psychedelics, or dissociative drugs like ketamine. People often take it out of curiosity and interest in exploring weird mental states, rather than for pleasure or fun. A few use it for personal spiritual reasons but it appears that most users do not tend to repeat these powerful experiences very often.
Salvia combines hallucinogenic and dissociative effects. At higher doses it can scramble current perceptions, memory and imagination so you can lose all sense of who and where you are and what is going on. Alternatively, you might find the trip meaningful, for example revisiting places from your past, which may appear to be as clear and real as normal experience. When smoked, the effects of salvia come on in seconds, peak in the first 5 or 10 minutes and then decrease over the next half hour.
The experience can be very unusual and for a minority of people taking salvia feels enlightening and has elements of beauty. However many find that it very difficult to make any sense of.
Most people do not regret trying salvia, but plenty find it unpleasant and sometimes terrifying. Small doses of Salvia, for example when the plant is chewed, or smoked in an ineffective way, may make you feel odd and giggly. If a large dose is taken, which can be with just one lungful of smoke, the user will have a very intense experience, in which no aspect of normal conscious reality stays the same, and it is common to forget that you have taken a drug, or even who or what you are.
Every person will experience something different on salvia, and no two trips will be alike. Salvia can make your perception of time and the place you are in different. People can find themselves laughing hysterically. It can bring about cartoonish hallucinations , and even a total immersion in a dream reality outside of the normal universe.
You can even experience encounters with other beings. Your whole body feels involved in a salvia trip, and sensations of falling, being pulled around, or floating are common. Some salvia effects are perhaps most comparable to other controlled psychedelic hallucinogens like LSD and DMT, although salvia works very differently in the brain. Salvia is more often scary and confusing, with the experience imposing itself on you whilst you have little control.
The classic psychedelics more frequently give trips which feel meaningful and uplifting, where you often feel involved with the experience rather than the experience just happening to you, although salvia has the safety advantage of being very short-acting.
There is no evidence that salvia is toxic to the body or brain but there has not been detailed scientific investigation on the potential of salvia to be harmful. Some people feel headachy or foggy-minded for a while afterwards. On the second round, I saw some colorful pinwheels and felt as though my body had merged with the machine.
This may have been because I received a lower dose. The point was to allow the researchers to watch my brain and those of the 11 other volunteers in the study on salvia. The team was led by Manoj Doss, a postdoctoral researcher in neuropharmacology at Johns Hopkins University working under the guidance of the veteran psychedelic scientist Roland Griffiths.
A decade earlier, Griffiths had orchestrated the first controlled study of the subjective effects of salvinorin A. To get a better understanding of how the drug produces its incredibly strong psychedelic effects and whether it might have any clinical relevance for treating conditions like depression or drug addiction, they needed to see what was happening at the neural level. So I got high … for science.
Last week, the team published the results of the study in Scientific Reports , detailing what they saw in our brains as we tripped. The most prominent effect seen in all 12 subjects was a significant decrease in the synchrony of the default mode network.
This network is a mesh of brain regions that is primarily associated with internal thoughts but also plays a role in memory and emotion.
Different regions of the brain will show increased activity when we focus on a specific task outside of ourselves, like reading or playing an instrument, but the default mode network is what pops back on when we turn our attention back on ourselves.
When your attention turns inward, the communication between the brain regions in the default mode network syncs up like musicians in an orchestra. Other fMRI studies of volunteers high on better known psychedelics like LSD and psilocybin, the psychoactive molecule in mushrooms, have also shown decreases in coupling among the areas involved in this network. Some researchers think that the decreased activity between these network connections is part of the essence of what makes psychedelic drugs so psychedelic.
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