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Russian customs and Salvia

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bryak WayToRussified Joined: 28 Oct 2005 Posts: 321 Location: Edmonton, Canada	Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 5:26 am    Post subject: Russian customs and Salvia Is it legal to take the herb Salvia Divinorum into Russia? If you don't know, SD is a plant of the sage family that grows wild only in certain isolated regions of Mexico and that contains the psychoactive chemical salvinorin-A, a highly potent hallunicogenic. It is completely legal in Canada and can be bought over the counter in some stores (altho any responsible store won't sell it to just anybody -- it is a powerful herb). I don't believe there are any laws against buying or using Salvia in Russia either, but the transport of it over international boundaries is what troubles me. Anybody know anything about this kind of stuff?
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vitalsigns Lounge Wizard Joined: 25 Dec 2004 Posts: 2784	Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:21 am    Post subject: ...Think of the world of salvia divinorum as a place where Jimi Hendrix meets Harry Potter.
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overseas_expat VIP Joined: 11 Jan 2005 Posts: 741 Location: Moscow	Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:51 am    Post subject: Bring some in and find out. Let us know.
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bryak WayToRussified Joined: 28 Oct 2005 Posts: 321 Location: Edmonton, Canada	Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:10 pm    Post subject: overseas_expat wrote: Bring some in and find out. Let us know. Theoretically it really shouldn't be a problem as it is not a controlled substance in either country, and I only plan to take a very small amount (about half a film container full or less) for personal use. But there's that little inkling of doubt that will stop me from bothering if I'm unsure. Ah, forget it, never mind. It's not something one uses often anyways; I'll just leave it home.
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bryak WayToRussified Joined: 28 Oct 2005 Posts: 321 Location: Edmonton, Canada	Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:15 pm    Post subject: vitalsigns wrote: ...Think of the world of salvia divinorum as a place where Jimi Hendrix meets Harry Potter. How would you know vitalsigns, from experience? And it's more like the place where the Bogeyman meets Godhead. It's like being disected and lobotomized and completely oblitereated and put back together all at once. "Under the stunted oak I waited for her the Green Lady clothed in the black of the mystified, the lost, but more truly, naked and unshriven, seeking a dying moment. Under my tongue, the bitter mint above my head, invisible leaves, known only for the moonlight they intercept below my back, the green grass that saw me through my youth. She came to me in a spirograph body wings twined with ivy in curliqued ringlets her fingers the thorns of roses pointed with the blood of the unworthy the edges of her smile reaching up to the stars, her teeth, barbed spikes I had not expected fear, but terror came with her and tho I sought a dying moment, she showed me a dying eternity and tho I sought to bring wisdom into the real, she tore the real from me and I was no more, and in unbeing, I lost my fear She made me into a mist, expanding slowly until I was all everywhere, blown by the wind of her breath into eddies and whorls within myself and it was I that her wings beat, to keep her aloft She flew in me, acrobatically spinning and turning casting off parts of myself in colors I have never seen I flowed across her wings, she breathed me and I flowed through her grasslike hair Soon, oh, too soon, boundries encircled me and I contracted, condensed and rained myself on the stunted oak, and dripped from it in rivulets and froze beneath it into this mortal body, clothed in black of the still mystified, but no longer lost." © 2001 Lizard
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russmus Just Starting Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 9 Location: Montreal, Canada	Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:08 pm    Post subject: Salvia is an awesome plant.. if you ever find out that you can legally bring it to Russia, let me know
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waytorussia Frequent Guest Joined: 17 Mar 2010 Posts: 14	Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:25 am    Post subject: As far as I know, Salvia is not in the list of restricted substances in Russia. For the rest of the countries, this page provides comprehensive info: http://sagewisdom.org/legalstatus.html By the way, I was flying with Mate tea once, it looks like grass a bit. I was drinking it at the airport in Moscow and when I was getting on the plane, the security asked me what it was (because they saw I had the whole bag full with the stuff). I said it was a really nice strong tea that makes you stoned, they were really interested and I made them try it. They really liked it actually..
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Zach10791 Moderator Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 815	Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:02 am    Post subject: So is this stuff like pot? Is it legal in America? If it is, I will be right back...I'm running out to the Health Food Store!
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