Oh shit, I come in here and this alleged drug that supposedly as addictive as fucking heroin and produces a high like cocaine is freaking kratom?
Oh no. Oh no, don't let this happen with freaking kratom now. Some motherfucking media piece of shit was having a slow fucking day and decided that since salvia is gone now, they'd better try to find something new to whip up a fucking frenzy about. Except Salvia could actually pose an issue if used irresponsibly. That's probably why they need to straight make things up about kratom to make it sound scary, since telling people there's some legal drug out there that produces a weak little opiate-esque high akin to taking some codeine wouldn't sound nearly scary enough to all the airheaded busy body middle aged mothers who get worked up about this kind of dumb shit.
I mean, obviously I don't need to tell anyone here that anyone who claims that kratom is as addictive as heroin or could be in any way compared to cocaine needs to be slapped. I also don't think I need to tell anyone that it's a useful thing to have available, as it serves far better medically for things like mild pain or withdrawal than it does as a recreational substance. Whoever these people are who are going out of their way to spread this sort of misinformation and make the world a worse place simply because they're terrible journalists and can't come up with any stories needs to possibly be banned from every having access to any writing implement for the rest of their life.
"you could get high on kratom, get in an automobile, drive down the road and crash and kill someone." What the fuck is that even supposed to mean? Newsflash bro, I could high five someone, get in an automobile, drive down the road and crash and kill someone. I could do the chicken dance, get in an automobile, drive down the road and crash and kill someone. Usually that's how reality works, something happens, then something else happens afterwards. Crazy, I know.
My god, it has been a long, long time since I've read a piece of reporting more maliciously hyperbolic and sensationalist than this. This is...unbelievable. It's infuriating that anyone would create something like this. I'm speechless, I don't even know how to put into words how this makes me feel upon reading lines like "some think it's the most dangerous drug currently for sale in the United States". It's totally unbelievable. I'm not going to be able to stop thinking about this, it's just so wrong. There's no way the person writing this didn't know what they were doing, there's a reason they use weasel words like "'some' think it's the most dangerous drug...". Who? Who the fuck thinks that asshole, huh? And how is that the case when down at the bottom it says there have been no reported fatalities from kratom? Cause I'd say that pretty strongly refutes that claim. On that note, it's almost like there's a reason the bullshit about it being one of the most dangerous drugs for sale in the U.S. is way up at the top and the part about no fatalities tied to kratom is way down at the bottom...
For real, just...What. The. Fuck.
