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A teenager from San Diego is now severely disabled after he jumped out of a fifth-floor hotel window while high on the legal drug salvia.
Sam Taylor told NBC 7 this week that he took the drug in order to feel ‘something otherworldly.’ Salvia, a legal which can be smoked, is available at most head shops across California.
‘They said I had a 15 percent chance of survival when I came in [to the hospital],’ Taylor told the station.
In total, he suffered a broken pelvis, sternum, wrist, ribs and feet. Taylor’s body is held together by 62 pieces of hardware.
Experts says that salvia, which part of the mint family, operates in the brain in similar manner to LSD, the highs don’t last as long but they are more intense. The drug is outlawed in 29 states as well as in Guam.
Sam Taylor, walking with his mother, Becca Budd, in San Diego this week, he now needs a cane to walk
Taylor spoke about about use of salvia in an interview with NBC 7 in which he said that he took the drug in order to experience something ‘other worldy’
The shocking moment the teen runs for the fifth floor window
Users say salvia can produce vivid hallucinations and out-of-body experiences, but can also make them feel like inanimate objects and cause short-term memory loss. It’s commonly known by the street name Sally-D, as its full name is salvia divinorum.
Taylor was with a friend, known as a trip sitter, who didn’t take the drug and was there to ensure the teen’s safety, in Salt Lake City when it happened.
‘The room got black and I looked up at my friend’s face and it looked like it was melting,’ Taylor said.
Security footage broadcast by NBC7 shows Taylor running out of his hotel room as his friend gives chase.
His friend stops suddenly in horror as broken shards of glass come into the frame, that was the moment that Taylor jumped out of the window.
‘I had been doing psychedelics for five years. I’ve tripped over 100 times in my life. Salvia is my last trip ever,’ Taylor said.
He went on to say that doctors told him that there was a good chance that he may never walk again.
Taylor’s friend, known as a trip sitter, is left shocked after Taylor takes the five story plunge
CCTV video from the hotel in Utah shows Taylor running from his hotel room and into the hall way
The window that Taylor jumped out of in Utah
In total, he suffered a broken pelvis, sternum, wrist, ribs and feet. Taylor’s body is held together by 62 pieces of hardware
Taylor told NBC 7 that doctors initially told him that there was a good chance he may never walk again
He did extensive damage to his body during the fall
‘What are we going to do moving forward? That’s all we can think about, is what are we going to do moving forward,’ his mother, Becca, said this week
Salvia is legal in 21 states in the US, including California, and is completely legal in Mexico
While his mother, Becca Budd, said: ‘What are we going to do moving forward? That’s all we can think about, is what are we going to do moving forward.’
Social media posts show that Budd is a Mormon and that one of her other sons is currently an active missionary with the Church of Latter Day Saints.
Salvia is often promoted as ‘legal ecstasy.’ Rolled into papers and smoked like a cigarette, chewed, or inhaled from a pipe or bong, salvia has also been described as being like a mix of marijuana and LSD.
It is estimated that 1.8 million Americans aged 12 or older have used salvia. A 2016 Lake Forest University study found that recreational use of the drug was much more common in Mexico than in the US.
According to a 2022 study from Addictive Behaviors journal, the drug is linked to suicidal thoughts and depression in the same year that it is consumed.
Singer Miley Cyrus shocked fans in 2010 when a video of her smoking salvia went viral
It became extremely widely known in 2010 when Miley Cyrus, then best known for her work on Disney’s Hannah Montana, was recorded smoking salvia out of a bong in California.
‘I’m not perfect,’ Cyrus told Marie Claire magazine in February 2011. ‘I made a mistake … I’m disappointed in myself for disappointing my fans.’
She was asked, ‘But do you really think it was a mistake? Obviously college kids your age all over America are smoking bongs with a lot more than salvia in them.’
The Disney star’s response: ‘But they’re not Miley Cyrus. They’re not role models. So for me it was a bad decision, because of my fans and because of what I stand for.’
Reportedly filmed just five days after her eighteenth birthday, the video of Cyrus’ salvia bong hit features the singer/actress declaring that she was ‘having a little bit of a bad trip.’
Among Mexico’s indigenous Mazatech population and in particular the community’s healers, salvia is a powerful and sacred plant with curative powers and frightening mind-altering effects.
The Mazatecs believe that people who disrespect an animal, a river or any other feature of nature can find themselves cursed with illness.
They must seek the advice of a shaman who offers patients salvia to discover what they did wrong.
Herbal healers say rubbing Salvia on skin can heal burns and make scars disappear. They say wearing the sage on the head for 20 minutes can cure any headache.
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