What is Salvia?

Salvia is a plant with short-lasting hallucinogenic effects.

1. Just because it’s legal doesn’t mean you’ll have a good experience

In a survey, 18.5% of people who had used Salvia said their life would be better off if Salvia didn’t exist. For comparison, this was similar to amphetamine, where 17.7% of users said their life would be better off if amphetamine didn’t exist.

2. Dosage is really important.

An optimal starting dose for smoked salvia might be:

200 / strength of the extract.

e.g. For 40x, 200⁄ 40 = 5mg. For 2x, 200⁄ 2 = 100mg.

Treat this as a guideline not a conclusion.

(This is based on an optimal starting dose being perhaps 0.3 mg of salvinorin A, and at 2.5mg/gram of 1x, this means 120mg of 1x, and then perhaps double the amount to allow for loss if smoked, e.g. 240mg of 1x.)

3. Spend at least 2 hours researching Salvia and Salvia safe use before using it.

I think a good guideline is that you should only use salvia after you’ve spent 2 hours researching the substance and researching safe use.

Time watching salvia trip videos on YouTube does not count.

For example, read this guide: http://sagewisdom.org/usersguide.html and this guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/Salvia/comments/47d896/advice_for_new_salvia_users/, and maybe also this guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/comments/7yvq67/ultimate_guide_to_safely_taking_salvia/

4. If you’re planning to take Salvia, read Tripsafe’s guides on psychedelic use, and apply them to Salvia, too.

In particular: How to Take Shrooms

5. How to smoke Salvia

Please read the following guide before using salvia: http://sagewisdom.org/usersguide.html.

Resources and further reading

Content of extracts:

http://www.fsijournal.org/article/S0379-0738(15)00052-3/abstract (hernndezbello2015.pdf), https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25710779

Dose-effect curve:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3581702/

References