Tinctures

I had thought that a salvia tincture would be a simple matter: pack a jar with leaves, top it up with cheap brandy, and leave it on the windowsill for six weeks. Not so, apparently: according to erowid it looks like a right production.

There's this over at the 'shroomery, written by someone with their heart in the right place: this statement goes to the root of the whole matter of s divinorum use:

Salvia divinorum is not something you can use to get "high" with and doesn't produce that kind of effect and should only be used for introspective meditation or for spiritual pursuits to widen the doors of your inner perception, never as a joy ride for the psychedelic effects or shared with anyone who might profane this sacred shamanic plant as some kind of substitute for illicit street drugs.

The instructions for making a tincture aren't easy reading, but very thorough. The laboratory style, though, is at odds with the plant's nature.

There are an awful lot of websites selling a tincture. Which is understandable in the world we seem to inhabit, but nontheless feels like pagan simony.