So lustig es klingt, so ernst ist war es wahrscheinlich gemeint: Ein Forscherteam der San Diego State University hat eine psychologische Studie über den Konsum von Salvia Divinorum gemacht. Besonders cool: Anhand von YouTube Videos. Anscheinend gibt es tausende von Leuten, die ihre Salvia-Flashs auf Youtube stellen.

Was dabei rausgekommen ist: keine Ahnung. Hier die Resultate, die man wohl nur auf Salvia verstehen kann:

"The mean duration of the videos was 5.8 (SD = 1.91, range = 2.34–9.55) min with users taking an average of 1.71 (SD = .94, range = 1–5) hits while holding the smoke in their lungs for an average of 25.4 (SD = 15.03) s. A range of 0–6 (mode = 2) other people were in the room, with nine (26%) videos including another salvia smoker. In seven (21%) videos, the user was moved, touched or otherwise interfered with in some way by others. In almost half (n = 16), those with the user showed concern for the user, and in 30 (88%) videos the others laughed at the user. Finally, there was a “trip director” or a person that provided instructions to the user in 24 (71%) of the videos.

Dose and administration effects were observed. Number of “hits” was correlated with speech problems, specifically gibberish (r = .353, p < .05), and diction (r = .593, p < .05). Users that exhibited severe diction problems had, on average taken more hits (m= 2.4 vs 1.4, p < .05) than those that did not; those exhibiting severe fluency problems (m= 2.4 vs 1.35, p < .05) took more hits, and held the smoke longer (m= 32 s vs 21.3 s, p < .05) than those that did not. Finally 44% (n = 8) of the water pipe users had severe fluency impairments versus only 13% of the standard pipe users (p < .05). There were insufficient instances of salvia strength verbal descriptions to find relationships with that variable."

Die ganze Studie gibts hier als .pdf. Via MindHacks.