The psychoactive herb salvia has garnered a great deal of attention for its use among adolescents. Thousands of online videos have sprung up of teenagers filming their hallucinogenic experiences. Most of this footage is uninspired: it shows the subjects losing focus for approximately seven to ten minutes, followed by enthusiastic claims regarding the transformative experience they underwent. These videos serve to compound parents' fear of neurological damage with the more real horrors of compromised personal privacy, documentation of potentially illegal activities, and a seemingly open invitation to online predators.

The author would most likely agree with which of the following sentences?

(A) Salvia is a highly dangerous and addictive substance that causes neurological damage.
(B) An important protection for our young people is to regulate herbal substances such as salvia.
(C) Online video sites should require people posting videos of themselves using salvia to prove they are 18 or older.
(D) People who post salvia videos should be more explicit about the hallucinations they experienced when they come out of the high.
(E) The videos of teenagers using salvia exemplify multiple concerns faced by today's parents.



Consider each of the following choices separately and select all that apply.

Which of the following statements is suggested by the passage?

A. The effects of smoking salvia are short-lived, but intense.
B. Posting a public video of oneself engaging in the use of mindaltering substances is a cry for help.
C. Young people who expose their private drug use could open themselves to being targeted by pushers of more dangerous drugs.