According to numerous sources in the documentary, Kratom has been grown and harvested for various medicinal purposes - like pain relief - in Southeast Asia for hundreds (possibly thousands) of years. It's been in use unregulated in the States for about 20 years.
The documentarian Chris Bell was pretty thorough and answered a long list of questions covering safety and efficacy, purpose, pros and cons. The drug/plant/supplement started to sound too good to be true, and he heard from voices against keeping the substance legal. The voices mainly came from people and entities that stand to lose boatloads of money if Kratom stays on the market. The supplement industry, oddly enough, was also opposed, as of course so was Big Pharma.
One of the antagonists surprised me. She's a State Legislator from (f*cking) Florida, State Rep. Kristin Jacobs. I won't tell you how the story ended, but I will say this: a natural, unadulterated substance that can replace opioids and heroin, relieve pain and has virtually no side effects and has little to no addiction risk is all right in my book.
The effect that Kratom has on dopamine is what I'd like to learn more about. If I can safely switch from Abilify, I'd be very interested in knowing that's possible.
What have you heard of Kratom? Were you one of the 23,000 people who reached out to the DEA to keep it legal? If leaving a COMMENT proves problematic, shoot me an email to mackenzielittledalewrites at blogspot dot com.
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By the way, one of the citizens who testified before the Broward County commission is Karl Dickey, a pretty cool vegan Libertarian in Palm Beach who writes the blog https://palmbeachlibertarian.wordpress.com/. Check that out too.
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