Legal Weed - A Parents Worst Nightmare?
by evilbeth | Published on August 5th, 2007, 3:32 pm | Life
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About every so often a news station like are own WFMY will do a segment of investigative journalism to open the eyes of parents everywhere on the horrors of what kids get high with these day. In some ironic twist of fate that 20 years ago had these reporters smoking marijuana in the high-school bathroom, they've now become outstanding citizens of our society. They are drug-free journalists who have come to inform parents, that kids can legally get high these days. It's usually phrased something like this "We all know the dangers of Marijuana, but tonight at 11, News 2 "Investigative reports" uncovers the horrors of another drug - ONE THAT'S COMPLETELY LEGAL!" It's about this time, I expect hundreds of people in the coverage area, to gather around the TV, bend on their knees, cover their mouths with one hand, and pull their bible to their heart. "Oh what Horror!" It's at this same time, I'm trying to figure out the blurred out URL on the screen so I can order some.
First let me disclaim, at present, I haven't smoked anything in 6 months. I haven't even drank in a month, and it's been several weeks since I've had a non-diet soda. By alot of people's standards I'm a Peta loving, tree hugger, who eats bark... but not always was the case. In fact, while I have openly tried to quit smoking several times before without success, I some how managed to do it in January as a new years resolution. How did I do it? Legal weed.
Now, I can't guarantee I won't relapse, but so far so good. The trick was to get rid of nicotine. It was about this time, I had stumbled upon one of these omniscient news reports on one of our local affiliates.
The drug they usually end up referring to is called salvia divinorum, which is a psycho-reactive drug similar to that of marijuana, and Yes, it's legal. Legal to grow, legal to sell, and legal to smoke, ingest, or rub all over your naked body with chocolate syrup. On the "street" Salvia Divinorum is commonly referred to as "Sally D", just as Marijuana is known as "Mary Jane". It can be purchased as an extract and smoked in it's most potent form, or combined with other known herbs to form a blend of legal weed. These "blends" often go by names indicative of the marijuana they imitate. I chose "Wacky Weed" since it's, as its website suggests "The Total Bomb".
Salvia divinorum has long been and continues to be used as an entheogen by the indigenous Mazatec shamans for healing during spirit journeys. The plant is found in isolated, shaded and moist plots in Oaxaca, Mexico. It is thought to be a cultigen.
Now, I've smoked the "real" stuff before, so I wasn't completely unsure of what I was getting myself into when I put my credit card into the online ordering system. For a moment I questioned if this was all a sting by the "DEA" and I was going to go to jail in a few minutes. But days later I received a plain USPS box from Fort Mohave, Arizona. I used to live about 5 minutes from Fort Mohave when we used to live in Bullhead City, and thought that was quite ironic.
Open it up, and the biggest 1 ounce bag of marijuana looking non-marijuana is ready for your pleasure. Included were free rolling papers, and a free trial pack of another blend. It was time to see what the "fuss" was all about.
I tried to remember back to the days of Joint rolling, although it seems that with age, your paraphernalia creating capabilities go right out the door. But after a few minutes, I had something that resembled a joint. It wasn't perfect, but it was good.
In a few minutes I was kicking back to the Simpsons, and feeling pretty damn Good. The high is short lived, but it quickly tingled my pleasure center. It was definitely a high. Yes Marijuana is better, but this was a great pick me up. I felt like a million dollars, and that's something if you've ever tried to quit smoking doesn't come along too easy. It's not surreal, and you're completely aware of everything. It's like waking up and winning the lotto, and then an hour later having it taken back. So, after about 45 minutes your back to normal, and the munchies are insane. Somehow they've perfected the munchies, and that kind of sucks when you weigh just slightly south of a ton. It obviously does exactly what it says, but is no more scary then too many cups of coffee.
As a stop smoking product it worked for me, though you've got to weigh the pro's and con's of smoking non-filtered smoke. Is it a threat to children everywhere? Is it a parents worst nightmare? Hardly. In fact, parents need to be more concerned with the sugar and fat they shove in their kids mouths. Perhaps if we all had some Sally D in our coffee each morning, life would be alot better?
