UK - Using YouTube to study effects of hallucinogen salvia

[edgarshade]

BBC News

By Dr Jim Lange Co-ordinator alcohol and other drug initiatives, San Diego State University

21 December 2011 Last updated at 00:05

I do prevention work with alcohol and drugs, so I am a consumer and a researcher in the field, and I need to keep up with the drug use fashion. Drugs come into fashion and leave fashion, and sometimes there are new ones on the scene, and those new ones can really cause some of us in the prevention and research fields some trouble. If users know more about the drugs than we do, it can make us look, well, like stiffs who really do not know what they are talking about. A few years ago one of our surveys of students started to show more and more students listing a drug salvia divinorum as one of their "other drugs".

I had seen it, I had observed it on YouTube - the website had already served as my database. Could I do that in a more systematic way? And that is what we did. We randomly sampled YouTube videos and had researchers watch lots and lots of videos in 30 second segments.

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[DexterMeth]

Fuck yes.

SDSU makes me proud of this city once again.
Also, I used to have a friend that lived on a street literally named "Salvia Way" here. Too bad that was literally just a coincidence.

I'm tempted to track this guy down and see what kind of local tests he does.