So if it could be seized from the mail, we would all have to buy locally? Or risk having it confiscated? Ughhhhh.
Focus on his wording: "
If it passes unamended, we may see"
No, you could still buy it in the mail, but SOMETIMES it MIGHT be seized, and you MIGHT lose money trying to buy it, but no one would be arrested, while other times you might get it with no problems and never have your product seized, and that isn't even the case now. I think his point is that that's still not happening now number one, and number two, that the analogue act of the early 2000s was nearly identical and did NOT lead to Kratom or all the RCs becoming illegal.
Maybe this one could, maybe not, but I think all us enthusiasts are very prone to fear mongering and jumping to conclusions any new bill is proposed and from what VERY little I understand maybe we shouldn't be.
I mean in a way the AKA's "URGENT" emails may be getting us more worried, but they are the only one's we can't blame cause just cause it MIGHT not happen doesn't mean they shouldn't try to treat it as a serious issue and get every call in they can because it's very important we make Kratom as well known to the public as possible to keep it legal.
I mean the one reason really we have the most to fear (other than the "opioid epidemic") is that unlike Marijuanna, Kratom doesn't have a lot of people to fight for it.
If you go watch Hamilton Morris's podcast with Joe Rogan I posted in Drug Culture from earlier, that's one thing he brings up as the issue to why SO many drugs which SO few people know about are scheduled aside from the common ones: that no one was there to speak up for the drug's potential and the government wanted them illegal and had no barrier so they just made them illegal and that's it.
That's what pisses me off, that I don't really love weed all that much, but EVERYONE knows what it is and it's gonna be available no matter what.
But Kratom is relatively unknown so it's our duty who DO know it's potential to tell as many people as possible THE GOOD THINGS ABOUT IT before they first hear about its "dangers" on the news or some stupid sensational article talking about all the horrible deaths it "has/HASN'T" caused.
So yeah...we have reason to call, we have reason to inform others, but I don't know that we have reason to be concerned it will be banned within the next year.
It's all unknown, I won't say I'm not concerned cause I am, but it's NOT illegal in 45 states right now, and we need to call and make it stay that way.
I'd also suggest giving just $3 a month to Change.org which is what I do and they fight to keep it legal.