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The herb usually isn’t used in rolled cigarettes, or joints, because the dried leaves may not be potent enough to create any effect.

More often, fresh leaves are used to create an extract. Pipes or water bongs may be used to smoke these extracts. The salvia extracts may also be infused in drinks or vaporizer pens.

Fresh salvia leaves can be chewed, too. As with dried leaves, the fresh leaves aren’t considered very potent, but some people may experience a mild effect.

Is salvia safe to ingest?

It’s also important to take precautions if you use salvia. For example, you shouldn’t consume the drug and then attempt to drive or operate a vehicle or machinery.

How salvinorin A, the active ingredient in salvia, impacts your brain is unclear. Researchers continue to study the drug to better understand its effects.

It’s thought that this ingredient attaches to the nerve cells in your body to create a variety of hallucinogenic effects.

The effects of salvia on your brain may include:

• visual and auditory hallucinations, such as seeing bright lights, vivid colors, or extreme shapes
• distorted reality and altered perceptions of surroundings
• feeling as if you’re having an “out-of-body” experience or feeling detached from reality
• slurred speech
• laughing uncontrollably
• anxiety or fear from a “bad trip”

These effects may occur rapidly, within just 5 to 10 minutes of smoking or inhaling the drug.

Although these effects, or “the high,” can be short lived, some people may experience a salvia “high” for several hours.

Salvia largely flew under the radar until 2011 when a video of pop music star Miley Cyrus made waves on the internet.

In the video, the then-18-year-old singer and actress was filmed smoking salvia in a water bong. The video brought the spotlight of attention to this drug, and some state legislators began introducing laws restricting the sale and use of this plant.

Currently, salvia isn’t approved for any medical uses in the United States. It’s also not controlled under Congress’s Controlled Substances Act. That means individual state laws apply to salvia but no federal ones.

Today, many states have laws on the books that outlaw buying, possessing, or selling salvia. Some states have age restrictions, and some states outlaw salvia extracts but not the plant. Another small handful of states have decriminalized salvia possession, so you won’t be arrested if you’re found with the plant or extracts.