Click to play videoNew Delhi: A new drug is gaining popularity on the web. Known popularly as Salvia, the drug comes cheap, is legal and easily available. However, few of its users realize that the drug in the long run could have devastating effects.
There are several websites that show videos of amateurs and addicts consuming Salvia and explaining its after-effects. Many of these users are minors.
“I smoke Salvia. You can't even possibly know what it feels like. It makes you see crazy colours. I can't even control my hands,” a drug users was quoted as saying on the website.
According to the national drug intelligence center—Salvia is an obscure plant—once used by the ancient tribes in Mexico—it can be smoked or chewed. It causes vivid hallucinations and out-of-body experiences much like LSD.
And it's a cinch to order online. It boasts nicknames like "magic mint" and designer's sage" and, in most states it's perfectly legal.
“It's been particularly found that heavy doses of Salvia can lead to depression, particularly after-use of the drug that it leads to a sort of an after aftereffect of depression,” Prof. Steven Martin, University of Delaware.
For parents like Kathy Chidester—that's a nightmare. She claims Salvia drove her son to suicide.
“He was the model child. Until the time he started Salvia,” Kathy Chidester, Brett's Mother.
But, if you believe what these online users say—Salvia is something good—something to be celebrated—at as little as 15 bucks a pop. If you ask Kathy Chidester—it's a crime—that such a substance isn't illegal everywhere.
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