Well I tried it... mixed feelings

[mojojojo_1]

Well yesterday a bought $40 1 gram extract of salvia, at my local head shop in california, LEGALLY MUHAHAHAH.


It lookied and smelled like presmoke weed. I couldnt wait to try it after reading about it.

We ended up rolling it into a blunt, and began smoking it. soon i felt the changes from it coming on like a normal weed high. I guess the blunt was a horrible idea because only the small guy got really high. Then I tried some out of a pipe, and that is when it hit me harder. I began walking back into my house and the floor started to seem like water and i needed to stay on my couch. Also lines in my friends clothes made it seem like he matched the couch.

Later about 20 min later we got the munchies and bought food and the high became similar to a weed high.

Now for the very fact that this is a legal drug, it was awsome, but from what i read i was VERY disapointed. I thought this was going to blow my mind, change perspective, but not really. I would say in the begining it is similar to a shroom high and dies into a weed high. No shaman shit


Shrooms are better, right everyone? or did i do something wrong?

 

[skrudge]

did you smoke it pure, or mix it with tabacco? If so, that would explain the mediate high. Any idea how strong the extract was?

 

[mojojojo_1]

no it was all extract, we used (wasted) almost a half a gram in the blunt. Not sure what extract it was becuase a buddy of mine picked it up, but may have been 15 times. Now dont get me wrong, its much more potent then weed, but i guess too much of a build up and anticapation, i was setting my self up for a let down. I will smoke more tonight maybe it will be better.

Also im using a normal bic lighter, might that be why?

 

[Rutger]

Smoking Salvia , and especially the extract is completely different than smoking weed. Salvia is best smoked in a small bong or pipe. Its importand to smoke for a short time (like 2-3 minutes , and inhale as deep as you can. Keep this smoke in your lungs for at least 30 seconds.

Also its good to use a torch lighter, high temperature is important for the uptake of the active compound.

Again smoking Salvia is not the same a smoking a joint with your friends. Better try it again with a bong and you will see (if the extract is any good) that it is a special experience.

 

[Forkbender]

I read on a bunch of different sources that Salvia needs to get accustomed to you and vice versa. If you try again, it will probably hit you harder, as you are more familiar with the effects (similar to weed, or x for example).

Another thing might be to next time use a hotter lighter. The regular ones only work with the flame directly on the salvia, because Salvinorin only becomes a gas at very high temperatures compared to weed or tobacco.

 

[tryptonaut]

Smoke it pure in a pipe or better in a bong. 1. Hold the smoke as long as you can and 2. do another hit right after - repeat these two steps as long as you're able to
Anything else won't work well.

 

[Shneck]

Let me suggest that you do it with a sitter, in a low-light/dark environment, no music (at least, for your first trips) and in SITTING position, preferrably on a soft sofa or even better on the floor covered with pillows or a thick carpet.
Sitter may prevent you from doing damage to yourself and your environment: unlike shrooms, salvia takes you to places that you believe are real, yet they aren't. So, while flying through Salvia jungle forest you might actually be walking out of your window in this world.
Music or bright light can become quite intense and add a lot to the overall confusion of a Salvia trip (once I have experienced quite unpleasant feeling of morphing into a vortex with my skin being ripped off to the sounds of hellish howling - in fact, the howling was a folk traditional song my cd-player played at the time ).
Sitting position is really important IMHO. One of my first trips I was hit so hard and so fast that when I returned to reality I had a nice bruise on my forehead - though I was sitting when taking salvia, I managed to fall forward and hit the table. Also I had to buy a new bong for my old one broke into pieces.
One more thing to add is that as soon as you manage to break through to salvia world, next trips will become piece of cake. They say Salvia is reverse-tolerant, meaning the more you use it the easier to reach the effect.
I started with 10x with mediocre results, then tried 20x - now just 2 hits of plain dry leaf I bough 2 years ago are enough to take me to another universe.

Probably, you already know all this by yourself, anyway, just my 2c.

 

[Shroomlady]

So, will you try it once more? I'm curious if you will enjoy the second time better?