So, uh, can we talk about salvia?

Salvia?

It's true. Since pot chills you out and salvia gives you psychedelic visions (apparently).

It's fun but unless you get the 20x it doesn't work for most people. And the 20x is expensive for what it is.

But I dunno. I think it's fun. It's pretty harmless because all it does is make you pretend you're a sprinkler or a sweater for 20 minutes, while you're reduced to a puddle of giggles.
Apparently in the long run it helps with depression too. But I don't know how true that actually is.

Oh, lordy. I just want someone to drop something into my hand so I have little responsibility in this whole matter.

I played with salvia for a minute or two.. here's what I was told by the guy who sold it to me.. you wanna start with at least 40X (which is how concentrated it is.. I think it goes all the way up to 100... but I know there's 80X). It's got reverse tolerance.. so the more you smoke it, the less you'll need.. you should always smoke it out of a glass bowl, with one of those crack torch lighters (makes it burn better, apparently).

Now here's what I know from experience. The first time it takes a few good hits.. and you don't really realize it's working at first.. but then like oblomov said, you're a puddle of giggles... I suspect if I was using something visual, it might have been trippy, but mostly it was just oooo the walls are curvy and giggle giggle giggle.

I'd second el indio - if you're gonna do only one drug in your life, E should be it. I will never forget my first time with E...

Salvia is a bit trickier than it seems. It is definitely not the drug you want to do to dabble. It can be very scary, especially if you take too much. You need someone to be with you when you do it, and they need to understand what is going to happen to you.

When I did it, and I am an experienced drug user, I basically lost my shit and thought I was falling down a giant hole filled with dry leaves. Katie was like "you were totally gone." I couldn't figure out what had happened, as I immediately forgot I had smoked anything and was only concerned with the fact that nothing made any sense and my entire body was tingling. Scary!

That said, I have several friends who report that they take magical journeys to the heart of the Amazon every time they take salvia, and speak with a green goddess. They tell me I just haven't "broken through the wall," but I had a bad enough experience that I'm not too concerned with cracking through that boundary.

Just move to San Francisco, where you can buy pot from a cop.

Yeah, Ben's story up there about the baaaaad tiiiiiimes, maaaaaaan, is why people telling you to start with 80 and 100x extracts is INSANE. Start with a 20, from what I've been told. And note, I don't actually have experience, just know people who have.

I've seen people have psychotic break downs on salvia. I don't think it's a good idea.