Senate wants to ban Mexican hallucinagen
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- February
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The state Senate wants to stop the sale of a substance known as salvia divinorum in New York. The herb, native to Mexico, can produce an hallucinegetic effect as powerful as LSD, according to bill sponsor John Flanagan, R-Suffolk County.
The substance is banned in Australia, Denmark, Italy and highly regulated in other countries, but Congress hasn’t taken any action.
The substance has been available in stores for years, but it is now for sale on the Internet, which has led to worries that it is now more widely accessible to teens.
The Senate passed the bill unanimously this week. But the Assembly, which didn’t act on the bill last year and is typically far less disposed to create new crimes and penalties than the Senate, hasn’t taken it up this year either.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
Editor: Close this blog, It serves no purpose in that NO ONE appears to read any of it, and on the odd occasion when one does, his comments are never recorded. Spend your money on an office party. At lease someone will get some brief satisfaction out of the dollars burned.
you know what i love. people stopping you from growing that which is from nature. if the govt cant make money on it, then it must be banned.
I jus love it. soon xmas trees will be banned unless you purchase it. how dare you have it grow naturally on your lawn!