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Salvia says high

Lab study documents effects of psychoactive substance in popular, largely legal hallucinogenic plant

By Laura Sanders

- More than 2 years ago

Researchers are closer to understanding how a bong packed with leaves of Salvia divinorum gave Smiley Miley the giggles.

HALLUCINOGENIC HANDFUL A Mazatec healer holds enough Salvia divinorum leaves to create one potent dose. In a new study, volunteers inhaled a purified form of the plant’s active ingredient, salvinorin A.