Got Gen? : Miley Cyrus and a Bong in the same story.

So the latest news going around on the Entertainment world is a video that's been leaked of Miley Cyrus smoking Salvia divinorum from a bong. Another disney star auto-killed by stupidity... I get that she's 18 and ready for adult decisions and what not, but I don't think Cyrus is just "another girl"; she sadly took the disney road to stardom, and has to carry around the label of being "a disney star" for life - that means that she's going to be seen as a role model to a lot of girls - fans can say what they want... the fact is that she can't really be a normal celebrity, and now she just won more bad publicity.

I'm not really a super fan of pop music, but I do listen to everything that plays on the radio... she can sing, she has the fame, I Get she wants a "life" she just took a pretty hard road being another face of disney. I bet that if it weren't for the fact that she's a Disney kid, this whole mess wouldn't even be this big - it would just pass like "another teen celebrity" story. Meh...

Now as to what she was apparently smoking. Like I said above, it was Salvia divinorum (not the same thing as Salvia officinalis).

Salvia divinorum provides a high that includes the following effects:

Uncontrollable laughter
Past memories, such as revisiting places from childhood memory
Sensations of motion, or being pulled or twisted by forces
Visions of membranes, films and various two-dimensional surfaces
Merging with or becoming objects
Overlapping realities, such as the perception of being in several locations at once

The after-effects are by chance:

Feelings of calmness: 42.2%
Weird thoughts: 36.4%
Things seeming unreal: 32.4%
Floating feelings: 32%
Mind racing: 23.2%
Feeling lightheaded: 22.2%

And just like most of the drugs, salvia is illegal in a number of states. That aside media has compared it to LSD in some points. As for the risks (oh, yeah... there are risks), check this article here. Why was Cyrus smoking it? for the lulz I guess, some teens are like that. Can't wait for the whole media reaction tomorrow ^^

The Video of her smoking the bong is on the link in the opening paragraph, but in case you read my post first before clicking on any links.

Here's the TMZ.com video and story.

Abdiel Rodz

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