A search of German websites found Salvia divinorum offered for sale on 29% of the first 100 sites, while cannabis and LSD were not marketed on any sites. Official or institutional sites were rare for Salvia (12%) compared to cannabis (21%) and LSD (38%). A drug-friendly attitude appeared on 64% of Salvia sites, 58% for cannabis, and 24% for LSD. The low availability of official information on Salvia divinorum relative to drug-friendly or drug-trading sites suggests new drug consumption trends can be tracked on the Internet before they appear in official literature.
Over fourteen years, urine tests from 380 people on probation (87% male, average age 30) showed that 2.7% of 13,500 individual analyses detected at least one of eight narcotic substances. Cannabis had the highest relapse prevalence at 3.7%, followed by opiates at 2.4%. Barbiturates, LSD, buprenorphine, and PCP were almost never found. Relapses were most common among 18- to 35-year-olds, and women violated court abstinence orders with amphetamines more often than men did. Relapse rates for cannabis, opiates, and cocaine fluctuated most over time. The authors suggest that narcotic use during probation is not rare and has received too little professional attention.