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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 64. Chapters: Psychopharmacology, Mood stabilizer, Cannabis, Inhalant abuse, Valerian, Tranquilizer, Psychiatric medication, Psychoactive drug, Salvia divinorum, Psychedelic therapy, Kratom, Opium Law, Theriac, Theanine, Chemical imbalance, List of psychiatric medications, Harmine, Euphoriant, Spins, Cannabis sativa, Lactucarium, List of psychotropic medications, Cannabis indica, Diphenylprolinol, CDPPB, Medication phobia, Depressant, Speedball, Texas Medication Algorithm Project, Psychotomimetic, Pharmacological Calvinism, 3,4-(Methylenedioxyphenyl)-2-propanone, 6-CAT, Psychopharmacology revolution, Kavain, Hard and soft drugs, Bufothionine, Solenostemon scutellarioides, Dieticyclidine, Bufotoxin, Kavalactone, Addiction Research Center Inventory, Dimethoxymethamphetamine, Norepinephrine-dopamine disinhibitor, Rush, Serenic, Eugeroic, Zombie dust, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, Activation syndrome, Narcotization, Drug-na ve, Vesparax, Augmentation. Excerpt: Salvia divinorum (also known as Diviner's Sage, Ska Mar a Pastora, Seer's Sage, and by its genus name Salvia) is a psychoactive plant which can induce dissociative effects and is a potent producer of "visions" and other hallucinatory experiences. Its native habitat is within cloud forest in the isolated Sierra Mazateca of Oaxaca, Mexico, growing in shady and moist locations. The plant grows to over a meter high, has hollow square stems, large leaves, and occasional white flowers with violet calyx. Botanists have not determined whether Salvia divinorum is a cultigen or a hybrid; native plants reproduce vegetatively, rarely producing viable seed. Salvia divinorum has a long and continuous tradition of religious use by Mazatec shamans, who use it to facilitate visionary states of consciousness during spiritual healing sessions. Most of the plant's local common names allude to the...