alt Hacker NewsRaw leaf Kratom seems to be helpful for some with what I would consider a manageable and acceptable addiction danger. You can get hooked on it, realize there is an issues and cut back or come off it without it destroying your life. I see no reason to make it illegal. I've even seen is used by people to get off "harder" Kratom concentrates. Sorta like how we regulate beer and wine a bit differently than whiskey... same drug, same abuse potential in theory but massive abuse difference in practice.
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alwa • today at 7:05 PM
Or, for that matter—the whole thing where Quechua folks chew coca leaf all day, and have for eons, without obvious ill effect…
Coca : cocaine :: kratom : the stuff that just got listed, right?
anon84873628 • today at 6:10 PM
Counterpoint: https://youtu.be/TLObpcBR2yw
You have anything backing up the last bit? My intuition/life experience doesn't lead me to believe an alcoholic preferring whiskey is particularly worse off than an alcoholic preferring beer, nor that whiskey is more likely to lead one to alcoholism than beer. Claude surfaced this review tending to agree with me, with the exception of acute overdose being more of a risk with the hard stuff.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3888958/