Synthetic kratom is exploding in California

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/synthetic-kratom-addiction-and-ban-california-21076514.php

31•tqi•3mo ago

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0cf8612b2e1e•3mo ago

  … Florida banned 7-OH in August; in September,…

Banned in Florida? It must be bad.

ssl-3•3mo ago

Either bad, or insufficiently-taxed.

mtoner23•3mo ago

Kratom is banned in Canada. We should at a minimum place it on the schedule list and have it only be prescribed. It's sad that these days all we can think to do with drugs is have them fully commercially legal or completely banned.

tqi•3mo ago

How does a product like this make it to the market? Is this article overstating the danger, or did everyone involved (scientists, product folks, marketing folks, executives) just ignore it?

SpecialistK•3mo ago

Drugs are good business, especially if the ones you're peddling are legal (at least gray area) and you're detached from the street dealing.

Something being highly addictive is also a nice plus. For them. Not the poor victims who get hooked and their lives upended.

free_bip•3mo ago

It makes it to market because the US Congress is effectively nonexistent. They can't pass a bill, even a simple budget bill. The government is literally shut down.

readthenotes1•3mo ago

States can also act, and in many ways it's wiser to start there first for many things

hinkley•3mo ago

Ever so slightly disappointed that this story ended up being about addiction and not about a strange compounding of kratom that was spontaneously combusting.

nullable_bool•3mo ago

I started taking it and within 6 months I was at $100/day habit just to not feel terrible. I was also experiencing pain in my liver. I had to go to the doctor to get a suboxen prescription in order to get off it. The first few days were hellish even with the suboxen. I got to experience gooseflesh, which as you can imagine, is not a great feeling.

All that to say this, it shouldn't be legal and everyone selling it knows what they are doing. There are A LOT of scumbags out there.

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