Salvia divinorum is a bright, leafy green plant from Mexico that when chewed or smoked causes intense hallucinations comparable to LSD or "magic mushrooms." And it's legal in California. The drug is ...

Add another one to the “How Your Kids May Be Getting High” files. Five states have outlawed Salvia, a mint leaf grown mostly in Mexico that produces a hallucinogenic high when smoked or chewed.

Looking like an Old West preacher, with an earnest manner and long wavy hair, an amateur botanist from Malibu takes the podium and soberly lectures a small but keenly interested audience on a ...

A local scientist is studying whether the drug salvia could lead to revolutionary new medicines.Salvia divinorum is growing more popular each day. The plant from Mexico produces some of the strongest ...

MALIBU (AP -- A Mexican plant that contains the most- powerful natural hallucinogen known is being sold legally over the Internet and is drawing the interest of medical researchers and law enforcement ...

The Mazatac Indians have used salvia for centuries with no obvious ill effects, but it remains unclear whether salvia causes long-term effects on the brain or body. However, physical and psychological ...

CHICAGO -- A law taking effect in Illinois on New Year's Day makes possession or sale of a plant called Salvia divinorum a felony. The plant can cause hallucinations within seconds after it's smoked, ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about Salvinorin A. It's the chemical that gives the herb Salvia divinorum its hallucinogenic kick. My news peg at the time was not Miley Cyrus' experimentation with ...

— -- In January 2006, 17-year-old Brett Chidester zipped himself into a tent in his father's garage in Newark, Delaware, lit a charcoal grill, and asphyxiated himself. Any child's suicide is ...

Some people literally forgot which way was up, or didn't know if they owned their bodies anymore. Others felt their internal organs being pulled in directions across all three planes, and through ...