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Sage advice?: NC to join 13 states in outlawing Salvia divinorum

scienceblogs.com » 2009 » June » 15th » Sage advice?: NC to join 13 states in outlawing Salvia divinorum

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Salvia divinorum (Salvia, Magic Mint) is a plant used for entheogenic purposes by the Mazatec people of Mexico. A relative of the common garden plant "scarlet sage" (Salvia splendens), S. divinorum contains several hallucinogens that include salvinorin A, the first non-nitrogenous agonist known for kappa opioid receptors (KOR). I had known of salvinorin A since a highly-cited 2002 Proceedings of … Continue Reading »

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