Get Involved, Work Against the Scheduling of Salvia

A bill (HR 5607- introduced in Congress on October 10, seeks to make the Mazatec ceremonial plant Salvia divinorum and its active principle Salvinorin A the next outlawed drugs under federal law. The CCLE is organizing and preparing opposition to HR 5607, and is also calling upon all interested people to express their opposition to this unwarranted extension of the US war on drugs.

CCLE has created this Salvia Action Center as well as our Divinorum Defense Fund, to help coordinate and prepare opposition to HR 5607.

Actions You can Take:

1. Make a Tax Deductible Donation to the Divinorum Defense Fund
   • All funds are used to oppose the scheduling of the plant Salvia and its active principle salvinorin A. Funds are necessary to prepare legal documents and to possibly fly experts to Washington DC to testify. Learn more ( www.cognitiveliberty.org ), or donate now via Paypal.
2. Contact Your Representative
   • California Residents: Send a fax, e-mail and/or letter to Representatives Joe Baca and Grace Napolitano, expressing your objection to this unwarranted effort to outlaw divinorum and salvinorin A. Scroll down for address and phone numbers.
   • If You Live Outside California: contact your representative using this Congressional database.
   Points to make:
   • HR 5607 is an effort to bypass procedural safeguards established for determining which drugs should be controlled. Rather than make an end-run around these procedures, Congress, if it truly believes that Salvia meets the criteria for addition to Schedule I should refer the matter to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services for his evaluation and recommendation. This is the procedure established by federal law.
   • HR 5607 bill is a political effort to grandstand on the War on Drugs, when drug prohibition has been shown to cause more harm than good. See Drug War Facts for useful statistics on the failure of drug prohibition.
   • HR 5607 targets a plant that has a long history of shamanic use by the Mazatec Indians of Mexico, and the plant may well have beneficial medicinal properties that HR 5607 bill will make all-but-impossible to investigate. A recent scientific paper for example, reported that divinorum may be an effective anti-depressant for some people.
   • According to the Toxic Exposure Surveillance System maintained by the American Association of Poison Control Centers, there has not been a single report of S. divinorum poisoning. The plant does not present a danger to the public.
   • According to a report on Salvia and salvinorin A by the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics , neither divinorum, nor salvinorin A, meet the criteria necessary for addition to Schedule I.
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Sorry to bust your bubble bro, but they've already closed down the Divinorum Defense Fund and the other thing you mentioned ... it's all gone due to lack of funding. =\

 

besides how the hell are they going to bust people for salvia, I have grown salvia before and it looks like any other small plant,you can not tell it is salvia, and it seems like mint.

 

oh, well i did not know that..i hope then, that the DEA comes to their senses, and finds some better things to do... as far as getting busted for salvia, i'm sure nobody would hassle you about plants you were growing...but for those of us who do not grow it, it would now be hard to obtain

 

and the is no way to test for salvia.

 

there was no way to test for THC until it became illegal, and there was reason to develop a way to test for it.

 

Last I heard Congress hadn't done anything since 2002, at least that was the latest I saw on erowid. Unless its alot bigger elsewhere than it is around where I live, I can't even imagine it being popular enough to schedule...

So yeah, whats the status on its illegalization?

 

I`m in the UK, no scheduling of anything here for another 3 years!! Ah ha ha ha, you poor poor americans, just like australia............

"War, what is it good for, absolutely nothing!"