Featured Image Credit: Youtube/ Greg Shulz
Topics: Health, Drugs, Mental Health
Joe Harker
A man who took one of the most potent hallucinogenic drugs in the world filmed his experience to show people what it would be like.
The plant salvia divinorum can affect all of a person's senses and is the strongest natural psychedelic drug in the world, with a long record of it being taken by people throughout history.
Plenty of countries have made the plant illegal, and in 2016, the UK introduced a law against it, which means you'd be in heaps of trouble if you were caught possessing, supplying, importing or producing it.
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According to FRANK, salvia kicks in instantly if smoked but can take a few minutes for the effects to appear if chewed and if taken in high quantities it can result in 'dramatic time distortions and frightening hallucinations'.
The drug can also irritate your throat and lungs as well as cause 'dizziness and nausea', while someone experiencing mental health issues would do well to stay away from it as it 'could trigger a psychotic episode'.
One man who wanted to show what the effects would look like is Greg Schulz, who posted a video of himself under the influence of salvia to his YouTube channel, which let people see the effects.
Being under the influence of a mind-altering drug is dangerous by itself, and when Greg took it, he had people in the room with him who had to make sure he didn't fall out of his chair or injure himself.
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At one point in the video they had to hold him in place to prevent him from tipping to the ground, so stick another bullet point on the list of reasons not to do this.
He took the drug by smoking and quickly experienced slurred speech as he struggled to articulate himself, while just a minute later his control over his motor functions seemed to be lacking.
It was about this time that his friends rushed over to make sure he didn't fall and to clear any objects he might collide with out of his way.
Lying on the ground and speaking not-quite-sense, he then went to standing and hugging with a friend while he said 'f**k you everybody'.
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Later on, he was seen back in his chair saying something like 'candy landing from hell', so it seems like he was really tripping.
In the comments, plenty of others shared their experience taking the drug, with trips ranging from 'living as a rock' to going on a 'seven year quest to collect the last electron, neutron and proton to build the universe back up'.
Others said they saw 'swirling patterns and became a beam of light' and had to catch a friend who took the drug and 'forgot how to talk' then 'almost got hit by a car'.
Don't do drugs, kiddos.