Mary Brandenburg

1. The worldwide number of alcohol-related deaths is calculated at over 2,000 people per day, ^[6] in the US the number is over 300 deaths per day. ^[7]
2. Those advocating consideration of Salvia divinorum's potential for beneficial use in a modern context argue that more could be learned from Mazatec culture, where Salvia is not really associated with notions of drug taking at all and it is rather considered as a spiritual sacrament. In light of this it is argued that Salvia divinorum could be better understood more positively as an entheogen rather than pejoratively as a hallucinogen.

Citations

1. "Mary Brandenburg - 2008 - 2010". www.myfloridahouse.gov. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
2. Florida Legislature: HB 789 (2008)
3. Gresko.
4. Valdés, Díaz & Paul 1983, p. 287.
5. Florida Legislature: SB 1612 (2008)
6. Lopez 2005, Table 2.
7. NIAAA 2001.
8. Nutt et al. 2007.
9. Blosser.

References

• Blosser, Bret. "Lessons in The Use of Mazatec Psychoactive Plants". The Salvia divinorum Research and Information Center. Retrieved October 19, 2007.
• Gresko, Jessica. "Is Salvia the Next Marijuana?". The Associated Press. Archived from the original on March 14, 2008.
• Lopez, Alan D. (April 2005). "The evolution of the Global Burden of Disease framework for disease, injury and risk factor quantification: developing the evidence base for national, regional and global public health action". Globalization and Health. 1 (5): 5. doi: 10.1186/1744-8603-1-5 . PMC   1143783 . PMID   15847690. - Table 2. Global burden of disease and injury attributable to selected risk factors, 1990.
• MiSP (2006). "Follow the Money". Florida/Brandenburg. The National Institute on Money in State Politics. Retrieved March 11, 2008.
• NIAAA (August 2001). "Number of deaths and age-adjusted death rates per 100,000 population for categories of alcohol-related (A-R) mortality, United States and States, 1979-96". Database Resources / Statistical Tables. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Archived from the original on August 7, 2007. Retrieved October 20, 2007.
• Nutt, D.; King, L. A.; Saulsbury, W.; Blakemore, C. (2007). "Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse". The Lancet. 369 (9566): 1047–1053. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60464-4. PMID   17382831. S2CID   5903121.
• Siebert, Daniel. "The Legal Status of Salvia divinorum". The Salvia divinorum Research and Information Center. Retrieved March 4, 2007.
• Valdés, Leander J. III; Díaz, José Luis; Paul, Ara G. (May 1983). "Ethnopharmacology of ska María Pastora (Salvia divinorum, Epling and Játiva-M)". Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 7 (3): 287–312. doi:10.1016/0378-8741(83)90004-1. hdl: 2027.42/25229 . PMID   6876852 . Retrieved May 4, 2007.

External links

• Official Website of Representative Mary Brandenburg

Mary Brandenburg
Brandenburg in 2002
Member of the FloridaHouseofRepresentatives from the 89th district
In office November 5, 2002 – November 2, 2010

Political offices
Preceded by Irving Slosberg	Florida House of Representatives District 89 2002–2010	Succeeded by Jeff Clemens