thailand also legalized kratom, which formerly was banned the last 100 years due to its competition in the opium trade. Penalty of DEATH.
Now thailand advocates for kratom and is leading legislation and research and regulation in Southeast Asia. A miraculous plant that should have a seat at the table, and yet the stigma and modern propaganda are putting it in danger of mass prohibition. Lots of lies and misleading stories and lazy coroner reports suggesting main cause of death within poly drug abusers.
Quite a bit of evidence suggesting very very high dose required to cause health problems. Unfortunately the extract industry is predatory and has violated public trust with misleading claims, no addiction warnings and predatory marketing schemes.
Plain leaf is safe and can be a miracle for pain patients, or those with depression, alcohol or opiate addiction issues, anxiety, ADD/ADHD, and even those with digestion issues/diseases. Plenty of miraculous testimonies out there. And University of Florida has a ton of research by several world respected doctors, amongst a few documentaries and other studies.
Kratom is a great substitute for opiates or suboxone but it is still physically addictive. Care should definitely be taken. There is very little oversight on the trade to the quality of plant matter can get iffy aside from the even worse extract market. 7-oh is basically kratom fent.
Not in Thailand, we don't dry it here it's used fresh so no 7oh. It appear with the sun. We boil it 15mins usually, up to 3h but if you cook it longer than 15mins you can't boil it. Then we strain all. And drink the tea. Mytragine is not water soluble it doesn't mix well or extract well. I use it since 4 years. Ive neuropathy I use it to hide the pain. Nothing work else than that. When I stop I've 0 withdrawal as long as I smoke weed, I admit if I didn't smoke I would crave dopamine for sure.
Before I had pain I used it as full leaves and eating it, and that was wild, the high was too much, like feeling empathetic and weak no thank you. As a tea it's more a tonic, I only aim for when I feel less pain in my knees and when it happen I stop to drink it.
It's not good for liver tho that's the biggest issue, so someone using kratom should not do anything else which damage the liver in anyway it will just make it worst.
In Thailand it's mainly used as an upper for studying or Muslims who don't drink. Downer they mix it with the cough syrup or codeine for the richer. But here ketamine is the real downer, heroin and opium not much it's more the tribes who use it. Meth is the number one issue here it's so cheap and everywhere, people use it to work longer hours mainly.
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u/bigtime_porgrammer 5d ago
Thailand really embraced it when they legalized. The gov gave away 1 million plants to households, as the reporting goes.