Legally High? Legal Considerations of Salvia divinorum

• Published in: Journal of psychoactive drugs Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 183 - 191
• Main Authors: Griffin, O. Hayden, Lee Miller, Bryan, Khey, David N.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco, CA Taylor & Francis Group 01.06.2008; Haight-Ashbury; Haight Ashbury Publications
• Subjects: Addictive behaviors; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Armed forces; Biological and medical sciences; controlled substances; Dietary supplements; Diterpenes, Clerodane; Drug addiction; Drug and Narcotic Control - legislation & jurisprudence; Drug policy; drugs; Federal government; Hallucinogens; Humans; Internet; Leaves; Medical sciences; Mexico; Natural products; Pharmacology. Drug treatments; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; R&D; Regulation; Research & development; Salvia; Salvia divinorum; Studies; Substance-Related Disorders - prevention & control; Toxicology; United States; Websites; Human; Drug; Drug addiction; controlled substances; drugs; Legislation; Pharmacology; hallucinogens; drug policy; Health policy; Addiction; Hallucinogen; Legal aspect; Drug of abuse; Salvia divinorum; Public health
• ISSN: 0279-1072; 2159-9777
• DOI: 10.1080/02791072.2008.10400629

The legal status of the hallucinogenic plant Salvia divinorum has been rapidly changing. Legal prohibitions on this plant native to Oaxaca, Mexico have emerged at the state level, a phenomenon that has not occurred since the passage of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). Included will be a brief description of the plant that has only recently crept into the popular American consciousness, and a review of the different legal mechanisms through which states have controlled the plant and the pending legislation proposing controls. Lastly, the implications of various state laws are discussed.