As an adult who occasionally finds salvia divinorum interesting, I'd like to point out that state Sen. Bill Purcell's ham-fisted proposal to make this non-addictive plant a Schedule 1 drug akin to heroin (news story, Feb. 17) is both absurdly wrongheaded and an insult to all thinking citizens.

If the problem is idiot teenagers misusing a substance, then the solution is already on the books and in use for alcohol: make that substance illegal for people under 21.

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