dear me, you can smoke less and have a very good effect.
you have shown a comparison, but you did not indicate how much you smoked of what strength (particularly how many ug's of salvinorin A are we talking)
from the literature (over several years of being salvia enthusiast) most people go for 1mg salvinorin A because that is what Siebert claims to have vaporized - they discuss filling bowls with 20x which is probably 2 or 3 mg, or 2000micrograms of salvinorin A - these users go all the way to level 6 barely touching 1 2 3 4 and 5.
I think they are nuts. they miss the best part.
I only smoke between
250 and 350 micrograms of pure salvinorinA previously laid on cigarette paper giving level 4 and occasionally level 5.
I get the same effect from about 1/2 of a large dried leaf, so people who are smoking a bowl of 20x are smoking about 10 leaves concentrated down to one bowl which is
more than the recommended. amount - approximately 2500 micrograms of salvinorin-A.
For a quid it is 'officially' recommended to use 12 pairs of large leaves (or more) which again is around 3500 micrograms of Salvinorin-A
this is between 50 to 100 times what I use when I smoke. (leaf content might vary between 2 and 5 mg Salvinorin- A per leaf.)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7913753/
getting a grip on your preferred dose is the first lesson to learn if you want to know this drug. One size does not fit all.