oc80tn
05-30-2006, 05:40 PM
Here we go again...
The Tennessee General Assembly has placed Salvia Divinorum in Schedule I status prior to the legislature's summer recess. As most of you know, Schedule I means that Salvia has no known medicinal purpose and is illegal to buy or posess for human ingestion. I don't know what this is going to mean to people who have the stuff growing in their gardens. Our church recently had a plant sale and one of the plants you could purchase was Salvia. I would think that this use would be fine, but you never know.
Let me make a prediction concerning the impact of this legislation. Over the next few years, you are going to see the use of Salvia in the Volunteer State skyrocket. People who had no idea about this plant or that it was something that could be abused as a chemical, and are already predisposed to drug use/abuse, are going to begin experiment with it. This was exactly what happened with OxyContin in the late 90's. Up to this point, oxycodone was no more abused than any other prescription pain medication. Then the media and the politicians started expousing the dangers of "Hillbilly Heroin" and oxycodone/OxyContin suddenly became the drug of choice. Coincidence? I don't think so.
I get so pissed off when I see news reports about the latest and greatest dangerous activity that kids are involved. It doesn't even have to be drugs. The latest non-drug activity I saw on the news was how kids are strangling themselves to get a buzz. You have some horrified and devastated parent on the report telling the world they had no idea their child was doing this. Then they and the reporter go into detail how to use the drug or to do the activity. Are you completely fucking stupid, Ted Reporter? Why would you say this? Do you think parents are the only ones watching?
Criminilizing Salvia or whatever drug you choose is ONLY going to shine light on it and create more curiousity about it, therefore increasing its usage. Stupid motherfuckers!
The Tennessee General Assembly has placed Salvia Divinorum in Schedule I status prior to the legislature's summer recess. As most of you know, Schedule I means that Salvia has no known medicinal purpose and is illegal to buy or posess for human ingestion. I don't know what this is going to mean to people who have the stuff growing in their gardens. Our church recently had a plant sale and one of the plants you could purchase was Salvia. I would think that this use would be fine, but you never know.
Let me make a prediction concerning the impact of this legislation. Over the next few years, you are going to see the use of Salvia in the Volunteer State skyrocket. People who had no idea about this plant or that it was something that could be abused as a chemical, and are already predisposed to drug use/abuse, are going to begin experiment with it. This was exactly what happened with OxyContin in the late 90's. Up to this point, oxycodone was no more abused than any other prescription pain medication. Then the media and the politicians started expousing the dangers of "Hillbilly Heroin" and oxycodone/OxyContin suddenly became the drug of choice. Coincidence? I don't think so.
I get so pissed off when I see news reports about the latest and greatest dangerous activity that kids are involved. It doesn't even have to be drugs. The latest non-drug activity I saw on the news was how kids are strangling themselves to get a buzz. You have some horrified and devastated parent on the report telling the world they had no idea their child was doing this. Then they and the reporter go into detail how to use the drug or to do the activity. Are you completely fucking stupid, Ted Reporter? Why would you say this? Do you think parents are the only ones watching?
Criminilizing Salvia or whatever drug you choose is ONLY going to shine light on it and create more curiousity about it, therefore increasing its usage. Stupid motherfuckers!