It's been said that everything’s bigger in Texas, and this apparently includes restrictions. Texas wishes to make salvia illegal, since why let people see stuff that isn’t there, unless the stuff happens to be weapons of mass destruction?

According to the Wall Street Journal:

Salvia Divinorum... is a hallucinogenic plant that’s apparently all the rage these days.

Videos of people trying the herb are spreading on YouTube; states are moving to criminalize it; and researchers are trying to understand its workings to see if salvia, native to Mexico, could be the basis of medicines for pain or psychiatric problems.
About 1.8 million people have tried the plant, and 3% of men aged 18 to 25 said they’d used it in the past year, according to a federal survey cited in a story on salvia in this morning’s New York Times.

The drug isn’t regulated under federal law, but 13 states have “banned or otherwise regulated” the plant and its extracts, the article says. Yesterday’s Dallas Morning News reported on efforts to ban the drug in Texas.

The worst part is that these Texan initiatives were provoked by the inane and narcissistic broadcasting of histrionics. Indeed, attention whores ruined the fun for those 1.8 million salvia smokers, and you know who's to blame? Squishy educational programs which include Show and Tell time, teach all children that they’re special, and lead to unwarranted displays of mundane, frivolous, and stupid antics, which then make drugs illegal. So, no, it’s not entirely Paris Hilton’s fault. This time.