South Dakota has become the latest state to ban salvia divinorum, the hallucinogenic plant used for centuries by Mexican shamans whose recreational use has become noticeable in the US in recent years.

Salvia divinorum — the purple-flowered plant native to the Mazatec region of Mexico — has emerged as a globally traded commodity, Paja Faudree, assistant professor of anthropology, said Thursday at ...

After buying packets of a legal hallucinogenic herb, a group of friends gathered at a Berks County home in April to smoke it and see what would happen. But after taking a few hits from a pipe filled ...

Monday was the first day to file bills for the next session of the Texas legislature, and by day's end, two different bills addressing salvia divinorum had been filed. One would criminalize its ...

You can look at it, but don't smoke it. That's the gist of a new Georgia law that took effect Thursday. It targets a plant called Salvia divinorum, a member of the sage family, which has psychoactive ...

Lawmakers say Salvia poses health risks to the teens who abuse it. March 11, 2008— -- TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - On Web sites touting the mind-blowingpowers of salvia divinorum, come-ons to buy the ...

A recent New York Times story about Jared Lee Loughner's fondness for the psychedelic plant Salvia divinorum begins with a statement that clearly is not true: "No one has suggested that his use of a ...

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Alleged Arizona shooter Jared Loughner used salvia, the hallucinogenic drug, according to a high-school friend of his. Obviously, Loughner was troubled. But did salvia have anything to do with it?

It’s been almost 50 years since a generation of young people were urged to “turn on and tune out” with the aid of psychedelic drugs. But at least one hallucinogenic drug remains legal and widely ...