There are dozens of video clips on the Web site YouTube showing teens getting high smoking or chewing salvia, a hallucinogenic herb related to sage and mint.

The clips show young people laughing, and claiming to see walls melting before their eyes.

The drug is legal in all but six states.

According to the National Drug Intelligence Center, users typically experience vivid hallucinations, out-of-body experiences and feelings of merging with inanimate objects.

Salvia is not only legal, it is readily available.

During Target 9's investigation, a NEWS9 producer was able to walk into a local shop and buy a container of 80x strength salvia, the highest potency available at that particular store.

It's that ease of availability that concerns local police.

Steve DiBacco is the school resource officer at Weir High School.

"None of the students I've talked to claim to have had a good experience. It's all been bad," said DiBacco.

After effects DiBacco described included headaches, nausea and "bad trips."

NEWS9 took a sample of salvia to a local grocery store and showed it to parents, most of whom had never seen or heard of the substance and would not have recognized it as a hallucinogen based on the bright purple plastic container in which it is sold.

In mid-April, the Ohio House of Representatives voted to ban salvia, making it illegal to buy, sell or possess it.

Only six states have similar bans on the books.

Fourteen others are considering them.

NEWS9 purchased a sample of salvia in West Virginia, which currently has no ban on salvia and none in the works.

"It's scary," said DiBacco. "And based on the stories I've heard, I don't know why anyone would try it."

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