I’m not one to hold back my curiosity very long, so when a friend advised me not to try smoking Salvia I simply had to buy some and find out for myself why.

First things first: don’t buy Salvia if you don’t like strong smells. Salvia really does smell like a week old dead animal in the sun. Well, it doesn’t smell like rotting flesh but it does smell really, really bad.

I got my Salvia from one of the many online retailers that specialize in the drug. It came in the form of crumbly black flakes which I was to put in my pipe. Smoking Salvia is not pleasant in itself and the taste is pretty bad (though nowhere near as bad as that smell…).

The high you get from smoking Salvia is pretty unique, and it hits you almost immediately. From a tingling sensation in your limbs to complete mess up, back to normality again, the trip takes around 8 minutes to run its course. Once you’ve finished you’ll notice that there are no ill effects associated with smoking Salvia.

At least there are no ill effects that we know of. Clearly scientists do not know for sure that there are no long term effects that may come back to haunt us. For now I’m satisfied that there are no short term effects!