FDA declares popular alt-medicine kratom to be a deadly opioid

[Limpet_Chicken]

Well I'm in the UK and it isn't any better. Especially not with a whore from hell like Theresa M-aynus as PM. She isn't even a cunt politician. She is the diseased vaginal secretions of a rotting, mostly dead swamp-living mollusc.

 

[cj]

In some ways methadone probably is safer than kratom, but a nasty methadone habit is certainly more difficult than kratom to deal with (again, at least in some sense).

Honestly coming off like six months of kratom use, the psychological symptoms were a lot more challenging than they were getting off a much more serious methadone habit. But by the same token, kratom?s physical symptoms where easier to deal with than methadone.

The insanity is that banning kratom will just send people back to the black market, trying to scam doctors, or switching to a harsher drug unlike alcohol. Fucking stupid is what it is, at least from a public health standpoint. But then again our entire drug policy in the US doesn?t really give a fuck about public health.

This.

I'm suprised its lasted this long.

 

[JessFR]

Unbelievable how corrupted America is.

Hardly just America. If you're talking about banning drugs, you should see Australia's analog laws. They're amazingly comprehensive. Most drugs that are generally considered legal RCs and the like are banned in Australia long before they're banned elsewhere.

Some of it is corruption, but I think a lot of what people see as corruption and conspiracy is just boring old stupidity.

Like when people say they won't legalize Marijuana because too much money is made in enforcement. When legalizing it would make the state piles of money.

They won't ban alcohol, too much money in liquor tax. They will ban alcohol too much money in private prisons. You can use the basic money argument as the rationale for everything.

Of course some of it is corruption in a less monitory sense of the word. Governments don't like risking their political opponents calling them lax on drugs by legalizing things. Not to mention that it looks bad to legalize something you've spent decades telling people is too dangerous to be legal and destroying lives to enforce keeping banned. And then there's all the people in jail who will no doubt take exception to the fact they're there based on crimes the government just got rid of.

 

[Jabberwocky]

Britain NPS laws are also pretty nuts. Do you this Oz is more restrictive with such substance (RCs for instance)?