"Doc" Anderson is the one who introduced the legislation (he just put it in on Monday). He was on the Dr. Phil show yesterday, the episode was "Dangerous Teen Behavior". Right after the Salvia part of the show (where some teen said he was addicted to Salvia and video games), they had a kid on who held his breath while riding rollercoasters... something definitely should be done about that! Anyway, I have a meeting with the ACLU in Austin in early December, and they are going to help me with a Salvia defense strategy. I am supposed to gather info on medical research and other hard Salvia data for the meeting (good ar bad), so email me at info@mazatecgarden.com if you've know anything that isn't on Erowid, Sage Wisdom, or MAPS. I will post more info here when I get it. The ACLU says that you need to write your representative, and maybe write committee members when this is being considered. BTW, Salvia was also featured on a "teen dangers" episode of The Doctors 2 days ago. They had a guy smoke Salvia on the show, then stagger around a bit. He said that driving would be bad, that is all they could come up with, but warned that "who knows, maybe it could cause brain damage in 10 years".

The big headshop distributors don't care about Terrance McKenna, they just want to get paid. Once they heard about Daniel Siebert's "new LSD" it was all over. Not sure when McKenna made that comment, but if it was after the New York Times and LA Times articles came out in 2001, then it was extraordinarily irrelevant, as were all of Siebert's pleas that Salvia shouldn't be sold in headshops. He let the cat out of the bag, and headshop sales of Salvia were the consequence of his actions. Still headshops in all states do restrict the sale of there products to adults over 18, and as I have argued many times, a headshop customer is no more or less likely to be responsible than an internet buyer, but are probably more likely to not be a minor. I am sure the big distributors pay taxes on their sales, we of course pay taxes on ours. Saliva is regulated in California and Maine, I would like to see it regulated that way in more states, restrict Salvia's use by minors, they don't really like it much anyway. I don't know what community you are talking about, but I have provided Salvia to over 100,000 people in my community. Most of those people are grateful that they had the oportuninty to experience Salvia, and would have never had the experience if they had to somehow find and grow a plant, not everyone in our society is a farmer. If you want to get all spiritual about it (like folks who advocate the "growing your own plant is the only possible way to have a productive Salvia experience" approach are likely to do), consider this: When I first tried Salvia, I felt compelled to share it with as many people as possible (almost as if Salvia told me to do that). I didn't plan on starting a business, I just wanted to share, but things turned out the way they turned out. I sincerely feel that almost every adult should try Salvia. Many who try it will not like Salvia, but won't be the worse for wear. Others might enjoy Salvia in a recreational way, not in the way that spiritual users of Salvia might like them to experience it, but still they are none the worse for wear. Still others will find that Salvia is a profound experience and find themselves moved in a way that they were not looking for, and did not expect. They will have truly benefitted from the Salvia experience. If Daniel Siebert had not started producing and selling Salvia extracts, Salvia would be an obscure plant in the hands of a few psychedelic collectors. Since Daniel Siebert started selling Salvia online the New York Times estimates that over 2 million people have had a Salvia experience. It is impossible to say how many of those have been positive experiences, but if say 1 million Americans have had a positve Salvia experience, I believe that is a great thing for our culture and for our world. As far as drug cartels go, forget about it. Salvia isn't addictive and probably is only popular because it is legal. I've only heard of 1 person getting arrested in a state where Salvia is illegal, and have heard of no drug dealers in those states selling Salvia.