[Music] allow me to introduce you to the most unusual trans neoclerodane dipine found in nature its Origins are obscure its natural distribution controversial the effects of smoked Salvia extracts are dramatic immediate onset short duration and a complete loss of connection to consensus reality and starting in 2005 a video hosting service called YouTube made it possible to share these once private experiences with the entire [Music] world the videos were like nothing I'd ever seen they were riveting and hilarious but few users seemed to enjoy the experience and most tried it only once however one person built an Empire hello and welcome to gardening on salvia I'm Eric your host with nothing more than a video camera a bong and a bag of 20x salvia extract I couldn't think of any person who loved Salvia just because of the weirdness of doing it hello and welcome to driving on salvia I'm Eric your host you're going to hold it in for about 20 seconds or until your vision begins to vibrate how did you first find out about Salia my friends went out and bought some and tried it came over and they were like Eric this stuff is hilarious and we watched a couple YouTube videos and I was like this is what it does to people they're like yeah try it and I all right and so I smoked it in the living room over there and like just kind of faded out it's like you trapped inside of a kaleidoscope feeling a little bit you can lose any sense of reality while you're on it the joke is that you can't get anything done on this ever and it's just like a a how video and you just take a hit of salvia beforehand every time First Step One is we're going to smoke our Salvia would you say that you were having a spiritual experience during those videos oh yeah definitely it's definitely a spiritual experience but it was like a battle every time I smoked it I don't like losing control and that's exactly what Salvia is it just takes over you're just like uncomfortable but also very funny so it's completely worth making videos of what began as a simple household old gag went viral and for Eric there was no turning [Music] back for some reason it connects with of people easier news coverage such as this segment on ABC's Nightline been typ in the word salvia sensationalized a drug that most users found unpleasant and few had tried more than once out of their mind their scare stories serve to incite a moral Panic about salia's perceived dangers Cyrus allegedly tried it everything changed in 2010 when Miley Cyrus was recorded smoking a Salvia extract and mistook Friday Night Lights actor gray Damon for her at the time ex-boyfriend but future fiance Liam Hemsworth officials were quick to condemn it and cited videos such as those by Salvia Eric as evidence of the drugs of abuse excuse me I have to go to space now easy access that folks have to this drug is very disconcerting I was blown away when I saw my comedy drug video with a cat in it getting played in front of room full of legislators a little cat jumped up on the front of the car they don't know how to handle it AC SE monsters there they passed his bill in 2011 despite the fact that it has probably some medical use do you feel any personal respons ability I just I want to say no cuz I'd like to think that anyone should be able to make fun of anything now I'm not quite so sure because it seemed to just have gotten it into a whole hell of a lot of trouble [Music]