Salvia Divinorum Scotland - Government

<body stylesrc="../../../../technical/backgroundformywords.htm" background="../../../../technical/leafwords.jpg" bgcolor="#C0C0C0" text="#003300" link="#0000FF" vlink="#000080" alink="#800080"> <p align="center"><font size="5" color="#008000">Salvia Divinorum Scotland ~ Media Coverage</font> <hr> <p><font size="5">  Tennessee Senate Bill #3247</font> </p> <blockquote> <p><font size="4">Links to Legislation</font></p> <blockquote> <p>SB 3247 may be tracked online at <script language="JavaScript1.1"> <!-- </script> <noscript> <a href="http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/" target="_blank"></noscript> http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/</a> </p> <p>more links may follow...</p> <p> </p> </blockquote> <p> <br>COPY OF MEDIA STORY:  <font face="Arial">Sen. Tim Burchett (R-Knoxville) has moved the Senate to approve Senate Bill 3247 which makes Salvia divinorum A illegal for purposes of human consumption. <br> <br> Salvia is a plant which is imported from Mexico and which is used in landscaping. Of late, it has been promoted as a natural hallucinogen. The Senate unanimously approved the measure Thursday. <br> <br> Sen. Burchett stated, “We have enough problems with illegal drugs as it is without people promoting getting high from some glorified weed that’s been brought up from Mexico. The only people I’ve heard from who are opposed to making it illegal are those who are getting stoned on it.”</font><br> <br> </p> <center> <p>-/-</p> </center> <p> <br>If this ‘glorified Mexican weed’ quote has been reported accurately then Senator Tim Burchett’s wholesale dismissal and derogation of each and everyone who may consider Salvia as something more sublime really amounts to nothing less than <i>bigotry</i>.<br>  <br> His defamatory characterisation of all Salvia diviorum’s practitioners, - refusing to acknowledge that anyone could be using it for anything more than simply "getting stoned on it”, clearly demonstrates his lack of understanding and respect for those with differing beliefs to his own.  With unconstitutional regard he favours persecution and prosecution, further perpetuating, under the guise of a “war on drugs”, what has become in effect a modern-day inquisition.<br>  <br> </p> </blockquote> <hr> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="27%"> <p align="left"><a href="../../index.htm"><Back to Government</a></td> <td valign="top" width="19%"> <p align="center"><a href="../../../index.htm">Media Stories</a></td> <td valign="top" width="19%"> <p align="center"><a href="../../../../menu2.htm">Menu 2</a></td> <td valign="top" width="19%"> <p align="center"><a href="../../../../home.htm">Main Menu</a></td> <td valign="top" width="16%"> <p align="right"><a href="../../../../contact/index.htm" title="contact details and links to information on salvia prices and availability">Contact</a></td> </tr> </table>   </body>