It depends on what you want to get out of it. I've found that smoking the leaves helps me have insights into problems, usually afterward rather than while I'm on it. It's also helped me out of ruts and stuck places in my life. But if you're going for a high, pot would be much better. If you're going for a crazy, mind-bending experience, then smoking the extract (rather than the leaves) will definitely provide that, but many people get freaked out by the intensity of it. It's a lot like DMT, only the visions tend to be darker. But they can be healing as well.
What I like about Salvia is that it's short-lived, but unlike DMT, it's easy to control the dosage.
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