Another plant to worry about

So maybe this is what all of those "legal marijuana" ads and spam emails are about. Yesterday's article on Slate about Salvia Divinorum and the upcoming (potential) prohibition about it states the plant (which is not marijuana) causes, for about 5-20 minutes

visions; feelings of fright; loss of physical coordination; uncontrollable laughter; confusion; feelings of being underground, or underwater, or flying, or floating; experiences of "non-Euclidean" spaces; and more

So far, eight states have made it illegal, with sixteen more considering it (illegal in Delaware, still legal in Maryland). But according to the government in 2006, less than two million people have tried it in their lifetime and no deaths have been recorded as a result of it.

So, uh...what are we panicking about again?