The other weekend I went back to my hometown to kick it with all of my old stoner buddies from high school and they were all about smoking salvia, a pretty gnarly pyschoative herb that is somwhat surprisingly legal to purchase here in California. I was familiar with salvia from reading Daniel Pinchbeck’s Breaking Open the Head, but I figured the shit they had bought at the local head shop was probably a stepped on, watered down version of the real shit that would do nothing more than give them a headache and a cough. But man, was I wrong. One after the other, I watched my buddies take a quick spin outside of the universe, and seemingly outside of themselves. They laid back like zombies and pawed at the air, all the while reacting to unseen foes and landscapes. At first I thought they were just fucking around, but when I saw the fear in their eyes and the utter amazement of their countenances when they inevitably returned to earth I knew that shit was no joke. I stuck to Bud Light, thank you very much. Apparently though, Willows isn’t the only place that seems to be fucking with salvia. In fact, there is a whole series of YouTube videos featuring people trying to do every day tasks such as driving and gardening, immediately after taking a big rip of salvia. Check it out, but seriously, I don’t recommend fucking with salvia unless you want to question your entire existence. When it comes to psychedelic drugs, I can tell you from firsthand experience that some doors once opened can never be closed. But hey, if you’re feeling adventurous, give it a rip and maybe you’ll see the end of the world. Fuck it.

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