Drug legislation is a funny affair in America. Some drugs are taxed and legal (alcohol, cigarettes, and numerous prescription medications among them), while others are illegal, Between these two extremes are the different items that fill an unusual legal zone, products like legal buds and herbal...

Salvia divinorum has a long and continuing tradition of religious use as an entheogen by indigenous Mazatec shamans, who use it to facilitate visionary states of consciousness during spiritual healing sessions. Native habitat is within the isolated Sierra Mazateca cloud forest in Oaxaca, Mexico, growing within shaded and moist habitat. It grows to well over a meter in height. It...