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What Is It?

The known beginnings of Magic Mint would make a fantastic plot for a film. Here's the pitch:

1931, remote region of Oaxaca, South America - Swedish anthropologist Jean Basset Johnson is doing field work; investigating rituals of the Mazatec Indians. Johnson who was investigating psilocybe mushroom use amongst the Mazatecs, also noted their use of a rare plant in healing ceremonies. The plant was probably identified in follow-up expeditions by ethnobotantists as the plant Salvia divinorum (Diviners Sage). The plant remained a passing curiosity, a mere footnote in academic tomes. Except, to herbalists in nearby towns who know the plant as Herbia Maria (The Herb Of Mary) and Maria Pastoria (Leaves Of Mary The Shepherdess).

67 years later; destruction of rainforest continues. Local tribes are disbanded or Westernised as traditional territories are converted into unsustainable farmland. Expeditions for new, exotic plants continue in the search for phamacetical applications. The locals have limited options - and so a fledgling trade of Magic Mint begins. It begins in South America, and rapidly spreads to the USA. In 1999, Magic Mint exports to Europe increase exponentially.

Little is known about the Magic Mint's use before its modern discovery, although there is some indication that it may have been used by the Aztecs in ealier times. For example, there is evidence that links Salvia divinorum with the ancient Aztec sacrement Pipilzintzintli. Salvia divinorum is a very rare plant that is only found in a few ravine locations in the Sierra Mazateca mountains. It only grows in the shade. The plant does not produce seeds, and so it has to be propagated as cuttings. Local shamen tradition suggests that all the wild Magic Mint was propagated in this way, but where it originally came from, no-one knows. Is this an extra-terrestrial plant? It could be.

This plant has to be propagated manually. It is one of the rarest plants in the world. It is not available as seeds. It there no knowledge of its origin.