A 15-year-old student at Conway High School was suspended for 10 days following a report by a fellow student to school officials that he was in possession of suspected marijuana.
The school's assistant principal searched the student and located a clear plastic bag and a small clear bottle, each containing a green leafy substance.
The assistant principal provided a voluntary statement. The student told school officials the substance was salvia, bought from an online store under the "legal high" section.
The substance was submitted to the Arkansas State Crime Lab for testing.
Police say criminal charges could follow pending the outcome of lab analysis.
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Add commentOH GOOD
Now our schools are safe from fake pot and pastors
and guns
Thanks to the signs out front.
What a title
Now kids are getting suspended for drooling?
Lunchtime Treats
It was probably slipped to the kid by one of those lunchtime preachers.
Drug free zone
If we add salvia to the list of banned substances would it have stopped this horrible crime? No but at least we can say to our friends that we did something.
Salvia
Salvia divinorum remains legal in most countries and, within the United States
Salvia
Isn't this the flower that people plant in yards?
http://georgeweigel.net/plant-of-the-week-profiles/perennials/salvia-may...
Yep
But don't come to my house. I grow sage, chives, basil, tarragon, rosemary, thyme and other unmentionables in my garden. I hate being a criminal.
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Perhaps, Ms. Sims, this will provide you with a better understanding of this genus of plants. I would say that if you have any kind of flower garden at all, the salvia with the red blooms that is sold around here by Lowe's, Walmart, and other stores with garden departments is a wonderful plant for attracting hummingbirds and butterflies. It is also very easy to grow, blooms all summer, and is reasonably easy to maintain. It is an annual, however. There are perennial salvias that will overwinter in our climate unless we have one of our really severe winters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia
Personally, I think it sucks, but . . .
A.C.A. 5-64-215. Substances in Schedule VI.
(a) In addition to any substance placed in Schedule VI by the Director of the Department of Health under § 5-64-214, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation, whether produced directly or indirectly from a substance of vegetable origin or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, that contains any quantity of the following substances, or that contains any of their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers when the existence of the salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation, is included in Schedule VI:
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(5) Salvia divinorum or Salvinorin A, which includes all parts of the plant presently classified botanically as Salvia divinorum, whether growing or not, the seeds of the plant, any extract from any part of the plant, and every compound, manufacture, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds, or its extracts, including salts, isomers, and salts of isomers when the existence of the salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation;