DEA Moves Towards Scheduling Salvia Divinorum
I have been informed that the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently initiated an Eight Factor Analysis of Salvia divinorum. The Controlled Substances Act requires that this analysis be performed before a substance can be scheduled as a controlled substance.
The eight factors considered are:
- Actual and potential for abuse
- Pharmacology
- Other current scientific knowledge
- History and current pattern of abuse
- Scope, duration, and significance of abuse
- Public health risk
- Psychic or physiological dependence liability
- If an immediate precursor of a controlled substance
Based on the results of the analysis, the DEA may recommend that Salvia divinorum be scheduled as a controlled substance. This analysis will probably take several months to be completed. I will provide further updates here as more information becomes available.
source: LiveWire Teens Forum [The Salvia divinorum Research and Information Center (SDRIC)]
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