AND STILL MORE SALVIA .

Re Controversial legal hallucinogen 'safe:'

Cops want salvia criminalized because they want to have control over
what the public gets to do for fun.

Most cops love prohibition because it ensures their powers of coercion
and ever-expanding budgets, because the War On Certain Drugs was never
meant to be won, it was meant to be continuous.

Health Canada, the puppet of Big Pharma, would probably like to
criminalize it because they want to criminalize everything from
Vitamin C to dandelions (Google "Codex Alimentarius"). They would
rather have your kids on Ritalin than some weird Mexican herb, because
Ritalin can't be grown in a backyard or window box.

Social workers and "addiction" specialists want it criminalized
because then the courts will force people into jails or "rehab",
ensuring the longevity of that profession.

The churches really want salvia criminalized because any path to the
divine that doesn't go through them is considered evil.

But most of all, drug dealers want salvia criminalized because it will
give them one more commodity to profit from.

They can grow it like pot, push it to kids, and that gets the kids
looking at the rest of their unregulated inventory, like X, acid,
meth, coke, etc. That is how the "gateway" works.

If criminalizing salvia has anywhere near the amount of success that
marijuana prohibition has had, salvia will become contaminated, more
potent, five times as expensive and more widely available to people
under 19. Then the police will use that as a reason to demand even
more powers and higher budgets.

So, yeah, salvia will probably be illegal soon. Not because it is
dangerous, but because it is profitable for cops, gangsters, addiction
specialists, and the pharmaceutical industry to criminalize it.

Russell Barth, federally licensed medical marijuana user

Nepean Ontario