this is my first post - so hello to everyone! Basically my question is how young do you think is too young to try Salvia Divinorum? I recognise that a big part of the equation is the stuff's effect on the brain and that is far from clear at this stage (as far as I'm aware). And its also impossible to talk in absolutes, because everyone is different in terms of maturity, and the extent to which they are informed and critical etc.... but that aside, what do you feel about this issue? do you have personal experience or know people who think that they were too young? do you think it can permanently warp your approach to and picture of reality? do you think its simply a waste to do it without a lot of life experience and deeper curiosity? could it ruin your potential relationship with psychadelics if taken too early? Im 18 (just) and have smoked extract salvia twice. Once with a friend, and later alone before sleeping. Both times were very mild tastes of the salvia world. the first time i had three or so medium cones of x5 and just felt weird for about half an hour. The second time I had two small pinches of x10 and went in a bit deeper: very faint closed eye hallucinations (moving, converging patterns which occasionally morphed into fractal beings), heaviness in the body and strange focused thoughts and imaginings. I did LSD last christmas holidays, and I enjoyed it a lot. but I don't think it would prepare me for sally by what I've read. I'm pretty confused about my life and have a tendancy towards introspection and I'm was scared about what losing touch with reality could do to me. But I'm still hanging out for a breakthrough experience, probably soon. So yeah that a bit of my life story . I'm nervous and rambly and wanted to hear other people's thoughts... thanks in advance
Looks like this thread covered a lot of my general concerns: http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=380583&page=2. So I can understand the lack of response. In particular Mr Writer's post I think had a good point: "the sweet spot is before you're so old that you cannot learn from the trip, but not so early that you're too young to learn from the trip. this spot is different for everybody." If I can hold out, I think whats best is to wait until my worldview is more complete before I delve deeper into psychedelics...
Yeah, I just believe that people should be allowed to when they have developed. That should be around 20 years of age or so. Around here, police go to all the head shops and warn them not to sell it to people under 19. Even though they don't have to have an age restriction, most places around here I.D. for salvia unless you know them and are cool with them.
