I had bought 1kg of dried leaves and had given my friends a bunch of the shit. Over the course of a month and a half my friends and I had smoked about a pound of this shit... I'd say about 20 to 30 people in my town had smoked this shit because of me and most of them never felt anything but a light headed feeling. Well about a week ago my friend brought over a bong that he had for a year and never used... a nice 2 and a half foot bong that hits hard. Mind you, we used so many other things to smoke salvia... pipes, bongs, and joints. Now I know the bong is best to use so no one tell me that I shouldnt use a pipe or a joint, because I wanted to use them. Anyways... Last night my brother, friend, and myself packed the bong with half the gram. I had another friend over but he didnt take any. I took two big hits and held them in for as long as I could and OMG. I had never felt this feeling on salvia before, I dont remember exhaling after taking the hit.. All I remember was standing up in my room with everyone sitting down and going nuts... It was like I was surrounded by something and couldnt control my movements, My body would do what it wanted to do. My vision was blury on both sides but could see perfect in front of me and I had a mind state of a mild shroom trip. Then today I did the leave form in that bong that my friend took over and guess what, the leaves do work if you have a good enough bong. This bong hits so hard, I had people come over that hardly cough... cough there asses off, and thats with ice. All in all, It was a good experiance that I plan on doing over and over again. I just wish the feeling and mind state would last longer than it does. It goes almost just as fast as it comes. For all those that believe it doesnt work, keep trying cause I gaurentee it does work.
Ah man ... I love it when someone has a good salvia experience. =D Rock on, and good luck man! Just remember, use responsibly!
The reason it doesn't work for most people is that they don't read up on it first. The chemical in salvia divinorum that gets you high needs to be burnt at a much higher temp than weed, so joints don't work or if they do it's very mild. Like you said a bong is best and you're supposed to keep the flame on the leaves the whole time you inhale and hold it in as long as possible. If you do all that you'll have some amazing trips because the active ingredient is one of the strongest natural hallucinogens. If you use an extract (x5 or x10) it's pretty wild but the main trip still only lasts 20 - 30 mins.