Focus (Forum & Focus)
Mar. 12, 2008
Drug Flaw: Criminalizing Salvia Could Be Costly and Harmful
Forum Column - By Alex Coolman - An Assembly bill that criminalizes the drug salvia is well-intentioned but could ultimately be costly and harmful.
By Alex Coolman
This article appears on Page 6.
Sacramento is cooking up a new anti-drug law, but the recipe is missing a couple key ingredients.
The law is AB 259, authored by Rep. Anthony Adams. It would make it a misdemeanor to sell a drug called salvia divinorum to minors.
Salvia divinorum is a hallucinogenic plant. It can be pur...
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