Salvia divinorum banned in Illinois... Why????

[Universal Mind]

Happy new year! New Year's Day 2008 marks the beginning of Schedule 1 classification of salvia divinorum, a hallucinogenic plant that is nonlethal and nonaddictive, in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is now a FELONY to possess this menace that the proponents of the bill have not been able to tell any serious stories about. The people of Illinois are safe at last! Just check out the intensely backed up rationale of the genius ban loving sheriff in this article... http://www.14wfie.com/global/story.asp?s=7544430 Here is a Wikipedia article about salvia divinorum, and down the page it talks about Illinois politicians who supported the ban. Notice the brilliant logic they use, or would use if they actually gave a solid reason for the ban based on examples and not bizarre speculations based on flat out ignorance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_divinorum Since those politicians are apparently incapable of making solid arguments for why they made it a FELONY to possess something that has been legal all these centuries and has not been causing problems, maybe somebody else can make the argument for them. I would love to know what it is. Just pop open a beer, smoke some cigarettes, get heart disease from your daily Big Macs, and explain why people should go to prison for possession of salvia divinorum.