In case anyone hasn’t seen Richmond Sunlight, you should check it out.
So, let’s take a recent C-Ville Weekly story about the upcoming banning of Salvia by Virginia legislatures. It’s a good read if you are into drugs (and I mean in a purely academic way). Salvia is a “drug” that for some reason, has passed under lawmakers eyes for the last century. You can still buy it online and the effects are supposed to be similar to LSD. If anyone gets it can you make sure to write us a testimony?
So, what is this bill? Enter Richmond Sunlight.
A quick search for Salvia reveals the HB21 bill. On this page you can find the status of the bill (salvia is no longer legal in Virginia and is classified as a Class 1 Hallucinogenic), the entire history of the bill, video records of the bill, RSS feeds to update you regarding bill changes, commentary, lists of those who approved it, and a lot more.
Our friend at cvillenews, Waldo, built the thing together with funding from the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy. Anyway, you should absolutely use Richmond Sunlight if you need to see details about any bill in Virginia. This thing is really cool and I love how easy it is to find out who is accountable for things. I wonder if the politicians are a little nervous about the ease of these public records. Well done!
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salvia? is that related to the blue flowering perenial?
/loser rookie gardener
I swear I read that as “saliva” the first time. And, well, ewww.
Really? I guess they are trying to save people from having chronic sore throats and feeling stuck in their chair for 2 minutes at a time.
Toby did an awesome feature about salvia in the C-VILLE!
I also thought it was saliva misspelled, but he’s a pretty sharp guy, that J. Tobias.
Read it here.
I linked to that in the article, lils
Man, first sentence! I missed it!
I know what I did, I skipped to the Richmond Sunlight part. D’oh.
i saw salvia being sold at “mercado,” a tiny hispanic grocery store on 29 north near pier 1. my dining partner thought i was crazy after i told him that it was a hallucinogen. but now i know i was right!
why was i dining at mercado, you ask? well, they have GREAT pupusas. we had the pork and cheese, which was the only type they had that day, but the clerk made it sound like they usually have other varieties. it was served with a variety of hot sauces, and each one costs something absurdly cheap, like $1. i was full after eating 2, so that might be the cheapest lunch ever. the best part? when they asked if we wanted to eat them at the store, which we did, they didn’t hesitate to set up a tiny card table with two folding chairs in the middle of the chili aisle. love it!!!
Is Mercado in that shopping center?
yes…next to an insurance company, i think.
Thanks!
I, too, really liked Tobias Beard’s article. It’s been interesting following the discussion about salvia on Richmond Sunlight, but that article really did an excellent job of summing things up in a way that I haven’t seen anywhere else.
i’m just worried about people writing publicly about doing drugs. I remember a story about a professor in Western Canada who wrote about trying LSD, then when he tried to come into the US, they googled him, found the story, and now he’s not allowed to enter the US anymore. And his children live in the US.
that website is the funkin’ shi-ite, Waldo. You are awesome.
Interesting article… Just moved from Boulder, CO with other plants a plenty. I might have to swing by to check it out the mercado. That special holiday in April is coming around and I was wondering if there is any kind of public celebration like CU’s campus puts on?
BLP: welcome to the party! I’m like an unofficial greeter. I usually tell people to help themselves to Schlitz and cheese puffs, but you’re totally asking for it. The gravity bong’s in the basement, go knock yourself out.
lilith is making me miss one of my most favoritest buddies from college…
the gravity bong!
it’s too bad I had to get all grown up and buy a traditional glass one…
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I’ve done salvie before and its perfectly harmless… I want to ask 3 questions
1. Has anyone ever heard of gang wars over salvia
2. Has anyone ever heard of deaths from salvia
3. Has anyone ever heard of ANY problems from salvia?
i think the answers to all of those are NO… so why ban it? its just going to cause problems and drug wars… Politicions are a bunch of dumb asses if you ask me… in the future i think that that theyre going to see that THEY caused these wars over salvia and then theyre going to undo the ban, then theyre going to look at the same thing about marijuana….
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