Parents in the US have been left baffled after it was revealed that school children around the country are experimenting with over-the-counter substances, often touted as legal or herbal highs. While the premise of the legal high may not sound especially dangerous, there was a lot of speculation as to the dangers of the substances after a group of four school children in Pennsylvania were taken sick having consumed Snurf pills.
Snurf pills are just one of many legal highs on the market. Experts are still unsure even what is in the pills, but they have said that the effects are similar to dextromethorphan, a substance that about 10% of all kids from grades seven to twelve are thought to have taken at some point.
So how do children get their hands on these legal highs? Well, it’s all fairly simple. The substances are either sold in regular stores or else online. One popular legal high for some time now is salvia divinorum, a powerful hallucinogenic that is smoked in the same way as someone might smoke dope.
Users of salvia often have the feeling that they have left their bodies, which can be totally unexpected for children experimenting with salvia.
Some parents have been trying to get websites selling these legal highs like Salvia closed down, but as nobody is technically doing anything against the law, it’s been an uphill struggle. Nobody is really sure where the battle will end, but if more cases such as the one in Snurf pills happen, then the authorities will have to look into regulating these supposed herbal highs.
Also available to kids, or anyone else for that matter, is herbal ecstasy, which can come in cap or pill form and is said to make users feel alert, excited and energetic.
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