KratomScience.com: How long have you been using kratom? Joe Turner: I’ve been using kratom for almost 4 years. KS: Why did you start using it? Did it help you get off opiates or other drugs? JT: I started using kratom for pain and the depression that came with it. Alcohol was my biggest problem but …
News from Bad Axe… a Michigan town apparently named after a ‘59 Gibson Les Paul… from the Huron Daily Tribune… A 32 year old man was busted for possession with intent to sell 10 hits of LSD. A huge drug bust for Bad Axe. Police also discovered in the man’s possession a pound of “suspected …
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I am not a kratom scientist. I am just a humble writer, humbly writing on a humble laptop that I bought for $40 from a guy I met at a gas station outside of Tulsa. (Writers are traditionally broke.) I am miles away from the nearest college or lab, or wherever great minds are studying …
For those of us researching Kratom science, this link is an excellent resource. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B0llU1h5-Vw6bXZZUGEyVGR1NGs?usp=sharing This is being shared publicly by Jane Babin, a San Diego lawyer with a PhD in molecular biology, and author of the excellent report “FDA Fails to Follow the Science on Kratom”
“Hi! I would love to tell you my story. I documented two surgeries with no pain medication and only kratom used. One was oral surgery and the other a cesarean. I also got clean after three years of addiction to opiates and now work for a kratom vendor.“ This is Stephanie Sue from Virginia. She …
There is a pattern in American history of fear-based, reactionary policy to new drugs entering the culture. It goes like this: A fraction of the population starts to use the drug. The media hears about it. As comedian Gilbert Gottfried said of the media, “their job is to make a mouse fart sound like it’s …
Calista from Ohio is a stay-at-home mom of two boys and volunteer who credits kratom for saving her life. In 2017 she began to utilize kratom as a tool in the process of getting off and staying clean of opiates Calista lives in a battleground state. On Monday, October 1st, the Ohio Board of Pharmacy …
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Andrew Turner appeared in the recent Netflix documentary about kratom entitled A Leaf of Faith, directed by Chris Bell (Bigger Stronger Faster, Prescription Thugs). Turner is a veteran of the United States Navy and served in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay. He is an outspoken advocate for keeping kratom legal. He lives in the Washington DC …
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Let’s invent a remote island in the middle of the Pacific. We’ll call it Coca Island. It’s present day. Coca Island is a modern society much like ours. People drive cars to work. Kids take buses to school. There are hospitals, libraries, restaurants, bars, and churches. They have a few big cities and they have …
The AKA urges kratom advocates to contact their Senators today to oppose the SITSA Act (Stop the Importation and Trafficking of Synthetic Analogues Act). The act, designed to limit dangerous synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, would also give the Attorney General the power to ban natural botanicals such as kratom. From the AKA: On Friday, …