Salvia Divinorum In The News!

Recently there has been a spat of mainstream media articles dealing with 
the magical visioning plant called Salvia divinorum.  In each story 
there have been some consistent inaccuracies as to this sacred herbs use 
and its portrayal as a marihuana alternative.  Anybody who has tried 
this plant will acknowledge right off that it in no way compares to pot 
or any other plant or drug they have been exposed to.  It is not a 
substance that one would use at a party or recreationally.  It is a 
meditative Visioning herb that induces altered states of consciousness 
that transcend common understandings.

These inaccuracies are par for the course with a media culture that has 
bought into the pharmacratic inquisition hook line and sinker.

What most of those who are reporting in these stories fails to mention 
are the positive life changing consequences of Entheogenic use upon many 
seekers and even upon those just recreating.  I have heard first hand 
account of numerous addictions and destructive behavioral patterns that 
have been identified and then overcome by of people.

It seems that many many people find the use of these helper plants and 
certain information combine to help the person overcome ego driven 
problems in their lives, like the kind of self destructive problems that 
lead to addictions, chemical or otherwise.

It really makes no sense that these exact substances that many in the 
psych community agree have enormous therapeutic value are made anathema 
by controlling institutions like the US Government.  What, are addicted 
people easier to control than independent empowered happy souls?  It is 
a blanket xenophobia of any mindset but their own that blinds them to 
the inconsistencies in their frail and limited world view.  This is a 
mindset wrought in duality and command and control domination in a vain 
attempt at overcoming the ever thirsting and lusting pain of no being 
connected with their source.

Below are the links to 2 of the 3 stories I mentioned above and to a 
partial transcript of the 3rd.

In the CNN interview with a Medical Doctor, some very honest and 
unexpectedly positive things were said that would lead one to believe 
this plant is of no major threat to the populace and that its widespread 
use or abuse is unlikely.

After that I quote a few prominent americans who have spoken up on this 
absurd issue of banning plants and cognitive liberty.

Regards
Doc Kunda, The Urban Shaman
http://www.dockunda.com

USATODAY.com - Teens, and now DEA, are on trail of hallucinogenic herb
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-06-22-salvia-usat_x.htm

CNN.com - Transcripts
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0306/24/ltm.05.html

newsnet5.com - Connecting With Kids - Agents On Lookout For New Drug 
Attracting Teens
http://www.newsnet5.com/connectingwithkids/2291374/detail.html


SOMETHING TO CONSIDER

"If people let government decide
which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will
soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under 
tyranny."
  		-- Thomas Jefferson

"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come 
when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict 
the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to 
others will constitute the Bastille of medical science.   All such laws 
are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic. The 
Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical 
freedom as well as religious freedom."
		--- Benjamin Rush, George Washington's personal doctor and a
			signer of the Declaration of Independence

"Prohibition was introduced as a fraud; it has been nursed as a fraud. 
It is wrapped in the livery of Heaven, but it comes to serve the devil. 
It comes to regulate by law our appetites and our daily lives. It comes 
to tear down liberty and build up fanaticism, hypocrisy, and 
intolerance. It comes to confiscate by legislative decree the property 
of many of our fellow citizens. It comes to send spies, detectives, and 
informers into our homes; to have us arrested and carried before courts 
and condemned to fines and imprisonments. It comes to dissipate the 
sunlight of happiness, peace, and prosperity in which we are now living 
and to fill our land with alienations, estrangements, and bitterness. It 
comes to bring us evil - only evil - and that continually. Let us rise 
in our might as one and overwhelm it with such indignation that we shall 
never hear of it again as long as grass grows and water runs."
		-- Roger Q. Mills of Texas, 1887, quoted repeatedly during a
			December 1914 debate in Congress over Prohibition