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Many people around the globe are now totally hooked on a new trend - herbal smoking, also called legal bud smoking. Legal bud smoking involves inhaling the fumes of countless herbs, after lighting them, either through specialized pipes, chillums or just by rolling them in cigarette paper.

A wide variety of these herbs happen to be branded as legal buds. These herbs are the ones that have been used for centuries in shamanic potions and traditional tribal teas. Herbal smokes are ready by blending several of those herbs in varying proportions. Most popular herbs used are salvia divinorum, hops, chamomile, damiana, ginseng, kava kava, wild dagga, passion flower, star of Bethlehem, skullcap, Artemisia vulgaris, scotch broom tops, betel nut powder and much more. Some manufacturers also give them a call marijuana alternatives. These blends also contain powders of the mugwort, in order to contain the mixture together.

Many of these ingredients, like the Ayurveda and Persian, are well-known for his or her medicinal properties and even used in medicinal branches. Some of them are secretly grown. The salvia divinorum has been utilized for years and years through the shamans from the Aztec civilization because of its healing properties. The skullcap is another herb which supposedly relieves a person of worries and tensions. Damiana and ginseng are reputed aphrodisiacs.

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American manufacturers procure these herbs in the Hawaiian Islands or Mexico, where the herbs are grown in secret plantations. There is a huge market in the usa for smokers of legal buds. Some claim that it gives the same high as smoking pure marijuana, but this can be a misconception. Many of these herbs do provide 'highs', but they are very short-lived.

Herbal smoke is inhaled through pipes or chillums. Native Indians just roll the mix inside a betel leaf. Many people use cigarette paper for rolling the mix.

The overall perception is the fact that herbal smoking is not as harmful as tobacco-smoking. Herbal cigarettes do not contain tobacco, and hence no nicotine. Some manufacturers even declare that these herbal blends don't affect children in almost any adverse manner. However, health experts have a different perspective. Burning leaves release tar, which clogs the lungs during a period of time. Herbal mixtures might not be as addictive as tobacco, but they do create a craving and a need to smoke them repeatedly. The only proven effect of herbal smoke is its numbing effect of the nervous system, but health activists still hold herbal smoke in contempt.