LMAO! SINCE MILEY WAS CAUGHT PUFFING ON SALVIA EVERYBODY IS LOOKING FOR A LEGAL HIGH!

There are legal highs beyond salvia. You just might not know about them.
Salvia divinorum sales are booming since Miley Cyrus was seen on video smoking a bongful, according to USA Today. Some customers specifically requested "the stuff Miley was smoking."

But authorities have been cracking down on herbal highs for a while.

A synthetic form of marijuana called spice, or K2, is in demand, according to CBSNews.com. Also called genie and packed in colorful bags, it provides a high that's been compared to marijuana, and it's already banned in some states.

"This is incredibly dangerous," Dr. Gaylor Lopez, director of the Georgia Poison Center, told CBS News.

New York is among the states considering a ban on K2.

While cooks would certainly go ballistic over a ban on nutmeg, desperate druggies have ben known to seek the spice for its hallucinogenic properties.

"It takes a long time to get high," says addiction specialist Clare W. Kavin. "It also gives you a headache and makes you nauseous."

Some people, she says, may drink poppy tea, adding it's debatable as to whether it really provides a high. "Heroin comes from poppyseeds, so some people think they'll get high from the tea made with poppyseeds," Kavin says.

Dr. Mike Vincent, the curator of the Miami University Herbarium in Ohio, says some people turn to jimson weed, but he stresses that it is extremely dangerous. "People die from it" he says. "Just a few seeds can kill someone."

Also called devil's trumpet, devil's weed, Jamestown weed and locoweed, the plant has white or violet flowers. But it's the seeds and leaves that are sometimes used as a hallucinogen – and that cause hospitalizations and even deaths, Vincent told the Daily News.

Morning glory seeds are similarly dangerous, says Dr. Charles Luther, director of inpatient and emergency psychiatric services at Long Island College Hospital. "These are very dangerous, so many states either don't sell them or are putting a coating on them."

Now the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) may be putting an end to the unregulated use of certain herbal products that offer a "legal high," reports WebMD.

The agency plans to make K2 and other herbal products into Schedule 1 controlled substances. Eventually, those who sell or possess substances like K2 will be charged with a federal crime.

"When the final rule is published, it gives us the authority to do the same investigations as for any other controlled substance," Barbara Carreno, a DEA spokesperson, told WebMD.



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