Salvia Divinorum (Legal LSD): How is this not more popular?

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Ok, so yesterday I read this article in the San Francisco Chronicle on the attempts to regulate Salvia Divinorum, which is basically a very strong hallucinogen with no addictive effects that is currently LEGAL in 46 States! Unlike LSD, salvia is very short in length (talking minutes as opposed to hours with LSD) and has no nasty side-effects, like destroying your brain. The article claims it has no chemicals that cause addiction.

I asked some of my more drug-affluent friends, none of them had ever heard of it before.

Has anyone ever used this stuff here? Would you ever consider recreationally using this, apparently the drug is better than cocaine? Finally, how is this thing not EVERYWHERE?!?

here is the wikipedia page for salvia