There are a number of different ways to ingest kratom. In this post I will describe several different ways to use kratom leaf powder orally. You can purchase kratom leaf powder, or if you have crushed dried leaf, you can make the poweder yourself.
To make kratom leaf powder grind crushed dried leaves in a whirling blade blender, a Cuisinart, an electric spice mill, or a whirling blade coffee grinder. Strain the resulting powder through a fine mesh wire collander several times. Set aside the pieces of vein and leaf stem that will be screened out, they can be used to make kratom tea (see below). The powder that passes through the wire mesh collander is what you want to use as kratom powder.
Now that you have kratom leaf powder, how can you use it? Here are the ways that I find work best for me.
1. Kratom leaf powder can be gel-capped. This is probably the best way for those who find the taste of kratom obnoxious. To gel-cap kratom powder you will need to purchase gelatin capsules or Vegi-caps. They are available online from several merchants such as spicediscounters.com. You will also need to purchase an inexpensive manual encapsulating machine such as a Capsule Machine®. Sources of gel-caps often also sell capsule making machines. Don't spend more than you have to on one, as the cheap ones work well for non-commercial purposes. The advantage of this method is ease of taking kratom. The disadvantage is that gel-capping is time-consuming, even with a capsule-making machine.
2. You can add the powder to chocolate soy-milk or regular chocolate milk and blend it up in a blender to make a kratom milk-shake. This will make the powder palatable. This is a quick method of preparing kratom for ingestion. You must drink the shake very quickly before the kratom particles settle out.
Disadvantage of this method: the effects come on slower and are a bit weaker if milk-shake is used as the vehicle. This is probably because gastric emptying is delayed by the milk. and also because the milk-protein will coagulate around the particles once in the stomach, making it hard for the alkaloids to leach out of the particles.
3. You can make kratom tea. This can be done using powder or cruushed leaf, or 'veins and stems'. The extraction of alkaloids is quicker and more complete if you use powder rather than crushed leaf or veins and stems. The following is a recipe for kratom-cinnamon tea, which if sweetened actually tastes fairly good (ginger root, or ginger powder can be added to the cinnamon and kratom to make the resulting tea taste like Chai-tea).
To a quart of water add the kratom leaf powder. The amount you will use depends on your individual tolerance to kratom, but don't overdo it or the drink will be nauseating and much too strong. Boil the kratom powder at a low boil for 5 minutes, then add a cinnamon stick, NOT powdered cinnamon, and boil for 5 more minutes, or until the amount of liquid is reduced to half its original volume. Filter the tea through a tea strainer, and then optionally (if you want a clear looking tea), filter it again through a paper coffee filter. Sweeten and drink it as you would regular tea. The residue you filtered out still contains some kratom alkaloids, therefore you may want to return it to the pot with more water and repeat the whole tea-making procedure, finally adding the second batch of tea to the first.
Some people add other legal psychoactive herbs to the tea. Some such sedating tea-herbs include chamomile, Blue Egyptian Water Lily, Red Poppy flowers, Lotus stamens, or Linden blossoms. Or add maté for a more stimulating drink.
Advantages of kratom tea: Tastes fairly good if not too concentrated. Disadvantages - time consuming, the strength of the tea may vary from batch to batch
4. You can add kratom powder to a cup of room-temperature or refrigerated apple-sauce. Add powdered cinnamon and a sweetner such as honey, sugar, or Splenda® and stir well until the powder is thoroughly mixed into the applesauce. Consume at once, for if you let it stand too long the applesauce becomes bitter. Advantages: A very quick and fairly palatable way to ingest kratom. Disadvantage, unless the powder if fairly fine the resulting applesauce may be unpleasantly gritty. Using a chunky applesauce helps hide the grittiness.
5. You can simply swallow the powder with water (or fruit-juice). This is the quickest way to take kratom powder, but if you don't do it right you can wind up inhaling powder, which is certainly not a wise idea.
To swallow the powder without choking on it do the following: First hyperventilate several times, and then take a deep breath and hold it in. While breathing out ever-so-slowly through your nose, put a teaspoon of powder in the front of your mouth and immediately take a small sip of water without swallowing, but while still slowly exhaling. Still exhaling very slowly through your nose, mush the powder around with your tongue until you feel it is thoroughly mixed with the water. Then quickly swallow this down with a glass of water. Repeat the whole procedure for every teaspoon of powder you will be ingesting. Do not try to swallow more than one teaspoon of powder per glass of water.
6. Hershey's chocolate syrup can be used as a vehicle to mix kratom powder into. Then spoon this over ice-cream or strawberries and consume at once. Advantages: Tastes good. Disadvantages: Ice-cream, like milkshake (see above) may interfere with rapid absorption of kratom alkaloids.
7. Kratom powder can be mixed into honey and this mixture spread over a slice of dark bread such as rye, pumpernickle, or whole wheat. Place another slice of bread un top and eat your kratom sandwich.
--- Herbal Explorer
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Thursday, September 13, 2007
What is the Worst that Can Happen with Abuse or Long Term Use of Kratom?
On a kratom list the following question was asked: "So what is the worst that can happen with the abuse and long term use of Kratom?"
This post tries to answer that question. The following answers may seem obvious to many, but readers differ a lot in their knowledge about kratom:
Abuse, long term use, and dependence are all different.
Abuse is use of a drug in a harmful way. Using kratom just once but getting into an auto accident because one took a large dose and tried to drive on it IS abuse. So is using it when one has a medical condition which might make using kratom dangerous. So is frequently missing work because one is too drugged on kratom.
Long term use is not necessirily dependence or abuse. Long term use is quite different depending on whether it is long term daily use, or long term once or twice a week use. The former will quite often (but not always) result in physical dependence, tolerance and withdrawal if kratom is stopped abruptly. But the later will not.
Dependence is strong psychological (often compulsive) craving for a drug, and/or a physical need to take the drug to avoid characteristic withdrawal symptoms.
As for the worst that can happen, well several bad things can happen:
1. You CAN get hooked on it. Getting hooked on anything is not a good idea. And getting hooked on kratom, with both psychological and physical dependence is possible. According to those kratom users with past history of opioid addiction, getting hooked on kratom is not nearly as bad as getting hooked on heroin, which can destroy your finances, make it impossible to hold a job, ruin your social relationships, mess up your love life, give you AIDS from using dirty needles, or land you in jail or dead.
But if anyone gets hooked on kratom he/she can wind up paying out a LOT of money for kratom over the years. Unless one is rich, that's a problem. And so too, regardless of financial issues, is being dependent on (rather than just enjoying) kratom.
To avoid getting hooked DON'T use kratom daily. To be safe, keep your usage down to no more often than twice a week, and don't get into the pattern of doing it two days running. If you strictly limit your kratom use to twice a week or less, it will cost you much less, you won't get hooked, and when you take kratom you will enjoy it more. It's a win-win situation.
As far as I know, no one who STRICTLY followed this advice has developed compulsive psychological dependence on kratom, or had withdrawal symptoms upon quitting it.
But if anyone finds they are using kratom more and more frequently, that should be taken as a serious danger signal, a warning to quit it entirely while still are able to do so.
2. Another VERY serious problem is getting into an auto accident by driving under the influence of kratom. While low doses of kratom might, or might not, not significantly impair driving ability (people vary), high doses certainly DO impair it. Of course, those who have developed a high tolerance to kratom's effects would be less impaired by a given dose than those not tolerant to it. And some people are naturally more effected by kratom than others.
Therefore, do not assume that because someone you know drove safely on a certain dose of kratom that his dose will not impair you. NEVER drive on a dose of kratom that possibly could impair your alertness, reaction time, ability to judge distance, reflexes, coordination or attention. The same goes for other physically hazardous activities such as using power tools, climbing ladders etc.
3. Daily kratom use could cause chronic constipation and problems related to that, such as hemorrhoids, or worse, fecal impaction. Those taking kratom daily who experience serious constipation should, every day, take a safe bulk-laxative such as Metamucil (with plenty of water) to minimize constipation. Metamucil will not cause diarrhea. But remember that it must be taken with enough water or juice so it won't gel in one's esophagus and plug it up! Follow the label instructions.
4. Whether chronic heavy daily kratom use really would result in other health problems such as psychiatric problems, facial skin discoloration, seizures, or liver disease is unknown. But an old Thai study (which I don't have that much confidence in) suggests it might. So don't go overboard.
5. Those with sleep apnea might experience a worsening of their condition from kratom. Since this is certainly the case with other narcotics, it is reasonable to assume the same may occur with kratom.
Those with sleep apnea probably should not take kratom at all. But if anyone with sleep apnea does chose to take kratom, he definitely should not take it late in the day; for if someone takes kratom late in the day, there still will be significant levels of kratom alkaloids present in his system when he sleeps, and this might increase the number of apneic episodes.
Taken NOT TOO OFTEN , in reasonable doses, with attention to physical safety issues like not getting behind the wheel, kratom is for most people a very safe legal drug.
But still kratom IS a drug, and it is not absolutely safe. Taken in high doses every day for a long time, it certainly can cause addiction, although this addiction is not as destructive to physical health, or social and occupational functioning, as the addiction problems from abusing prescription narcotics, street narcotics such as heroin, excessive alcohol, or tobacco.
Perhaps someday, if kratom remains legal, there will be trustworthy studies on its effect on morbidiy and mortality. None exist. In the absence of such studies, the best one one can do is to make an educated guess what its actual long term health effects might be. On the basis of what is known about kratom, I estimate that using it is probably more risky than drinking coffee, tea, or kava, but much safer than compulsive over-eating or heavy use of alcohol, and orders of magnitude safer than cigarets.
Herbal Explorer
This post tries to answer that question. The following answers may seem obvious to many, but readers differ a lot in their knowledge about kratom:
Abuse, long term use, and dependence are all different.
Abuse is use of a drug in a harmful way. Using kratom just once but getting into an auto accident because one took a large dose and tried to drive on it IS abuse. So is using it when one has a medical condition which might make using kratom dangerous. So is frequently missing work because one is too drugged on kratom.
Long term use is not necessirily dependence or abuse. Long term use is quite different depending on whether it is long term daily use, or long term once or twice a week use. The former will quite often (but not always) result in physical dependence, tolerance and withdrawal if kratom is stopped abruptly. But the later will not.
Dependence is strong psychological (often compulsive) craving for a drug, and/or a physical need to take the drug to avoid characteristic withdrawal symptoms.
As for the worst that can happen, well several bad things can happen:
1. You CAN get hooked on it. Getting hooked on anything is not a good idea. And getting hooked on kratom, with both psychological and physical dependence is possible. According to those kratom users with past history of opioid addiction, getting hooked on kratom is not nearly as bad as getting hooked on heroin, which can destroy your finances, make it impossible to hold a job, ruin your social relationships, mess up your love life, give you AIDS from using dirty needles, or land you in jail or dead.
But if anyone gets hooked on kratom he/she can wind up paying out a LOT of money for kratom over the years. Unless one is rich, that's a problem. And so too, regardless of financial issues, is being dependent on (rather than just enjoying) kratom.
To avoid getting hooked DON'T use kratom daily. To be safe, keep your usage down to no more often than twice a week, and don't get into the pattern of doing it two days running. If you strictly limit your kratom use to twice a week or less, it will cost you much less, you won't get hooked, and when you take kratom you will enjoy it more. It's a win-win situation.
As far as I know, no one who STRICTLY followed this advice has developed compulsive psychological dependence on kratom, or had withdrawal symptoms upon quitting it.
But if anyone finds they are using kratom more and more frequently, that should be taken as a serious danger signal, a warning to quit it entirely while still are able to do so.
2. Another VERY serious problem is getting into an auto accident by driving under the influence of kratom. While low doses of kratom might, or might not, not significantly impair driving ability (people vary), high doses certainly DO impair it. Of course, those who have developed a high tolerance to kratom's effects would be less impaired by a given dose than those not tolerant to it. And some people are naturally more effected by kratom than others.
Therefore, do not assume that because someone you know drove safely on a certain dose of kratom that his dose will not impair you. NEVER drive on a dose of kratom that possibly could impair your alertness, reaction time, ability to judge distance, reflexes, coordination or attention. The same goes for other physically hazardous activities such as using power tools, climbing ladders etc.
3. Daily kratom use could cause chronic constipation and problems related to that, such as hemorrhoids, or worse, fecal impaction. Those taking kratom daily who experience serious constipation should, every day, take a safe bulk-laxative such as Metamucil (with plenty of water) to minimize constipation. Metamucil will not cause diarrhea. But remember that it must be taken with enough water or juice so it won't gel in one's esophagus and plug it up! Follow the label instructions.
4. Whether chronic heavy daily kratom use really would result in other health problems such as psychiatric problems, facial skin discoloration, seizures, or liver disease is unknown. But an old Thai study (which I don't have that much confidence in) suggests it might. So don't go overboard.
5. Those with sleep apnea might experience a worsening of their condition from kratom. Since this is certainly the case with other narcotics, it is reasonable to assume the same may occur with kratom.
Those with sleep apnea probably should not take kratom at all. But if anyone with sleep apnea does chose to take kratom, he definitely should not take it late in the day; for if someone takes kratom late in the day, there still will be significant levels of kratom alkaloids present in his system when he sleeps, and this might increase the number of apneic episodes.
Taken NOT TOO OFTEN , in reasonable doses, with attention to physical safety issues like not getting behind the wheel, kratom is for most people a very safe legal drug.
But still kratom IS a drug, and it is not absolutely safe. Taken in high doses every day for a long time, it certainly can cause addiction, although this addiction is not as destructive to physical health, or social and occupational functioning, as the addiction problems from abusing prescription narcotics, street narcotics such as heroin, excessive alcohol, or tobacco.
Perhaps someday, if kratom remains legal, there will be trustworthy studies on its effect on morbidiy and mortality. None exist. In the absence of such studies, the best one one can do is to make an educated guess what its actual long term health effects might be. On the basis of what is known about kratom, I estimate that using it is probably more risky than drinking coffee, tea, or kava, but much safer than compulsive over-eating or heavy use of alcohol, and orders of magnitude safer than cigarets.
Herbal Explorer
Friday, September 7, 2007
Controlling Kratom Usage
Many, myself included, find kratom (when used wisely) to be a life enhancing pleasure. But, like coffee, tobacco, or alcohol, kratom IF USED TOO FREQUENTLY can become a habit. So the skill to learn is how to use it, without using it too often. That is what this article is about --- sensible use, using without abusing.
Not everyone who uses kratom has difficulty in limiting how often they use it, but clearly some do. Fortunately for them, a kratom habit is MUCH less harmful than is a tobacco or alcohol habit. But, while kratom is NOT a "killer drug", and unlike too much alcohol it does not lead to out of control behavior, it is best not to develop any sort of drug habit, not even a relatively safe kratom habit.
Those who unwisely use kratom every day for weeks or longer may develop varying degrees of physical and psychological dependence on it. If they then quit 'cold turkey' they may experience withdrawal symptoms. These can range from none at all, to trivial, to mild, to moderate in severity. Most people report trivial to mild withdrawal symptoms, but some have a rougher time of it. Life threatening withdrawal symptoms will not occur, but some people will get pretty uncomfortable. Kratom withdrawal symptoms often resemble those of a very mild cold, but if moderately severe may include runny nose, chilly or feverish sensations, muscle aches, watery eyes, depressed mood, anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, irritability and diarrhea.
The withdrawal syndrome is self-limiting, and the worst of it is over in about 4 days. Milder symptoms may persist several more days. Kratom withdrawal is not the end of the world, but is not something one wants to go through.
So how can a kratom user avoid EVER going through this discomfort? It's really very simple to do, IF from the beginning of your kratom use, you make sure you don't take it more often than twice a week. Just remember that those who never take kratom more often than twice per week will NOT experience any symptoms of kratom withdrawal when they do without it.
For many kratom users, keeping usage to twice a week (or less often), and never using it two days in a row, is easy to do. It works painlessly for me. And there are real advantages to limiting one's use to twice a week: kratom will not lose its pleasure, you won't wind up spending all your money on kratom, and you won't become dependent on it. These are three excellent reasons for never using it more than twice in any one week.
Yet, truth be told, on the kratom lists, there are some kratom users (many of these with a history of addiction to far more damaging substances than kratom) who report they find it difficult to stick to twice a week usage. For them I recommend giving up kratom completely as the safest course of action. However, many are unwilling to do this, yet who really do wish to keep their usage within the twice a week safe limit, but find that 'somehow' they are using it more often than they intend.
The plan which follows is written for such people, those who wish to limit their use to twice a week, but who need the specific help a detailed, no-exceptions plan can provide.
Note: This is a plan for those not currently physically dependent on kratom, who wish to continue to use kratom without getting hooked. Those who are currently dependent on kratom should first come off kratom completely (either cold turkey, or through a gradual taper) and remain kratom-free for at least several weeks. Then they should carefully consider whether they really have the will-power to stick to this plan (many with a history of addictions, do not). If they are unsure, they would be best off not resuming kratom use at all. But if they wish to try the plan they must make a sincere committment to stick to it without exception, and follow it to the letter. IF FOLLOWED EXACTLY the following plan should work.
The Controlled Use Plan
Follow these five simple rules. So long as you do so, WITHOUT EXCEPTION, your kratom usage should AUTOMATICALLY remain in control. The trick is to follow these five rules without exception. No excuses for breaking these rules. If you break the rules, you simply are not following the plan. Print these rules out, and keep them handy to refer to.
1. USE A CALENDAR FOR FEEDBACK. Mark your actual (not intended but actual) days of kratom usage on a calendar, i.e., make a mark on the calendar each day when you actually take kratom. Don't fill out the calendar in advance. This way you can't fool yourself about how often you really use kratom. The calendar will provide feedback to you about how you are doing. This feedback is important. If your calendar shows that you are breaking the following rules, quit kratom IMMEDIATELY because you are starting to lose control.
2. USE ONLY ONCE ON THE WEEKEND. If you use it on Saturday you may not use it on Sunday.
3. USE ONLY ONCE DURING THE WORK-WEEK. If you use kratom on Tuesday, you may not use it again Wednesday, or Thursday or Friday.
4. ALWAYS ALLOW AT LEAST TWO KRATOM FREE DAYS BEFORE USING AGAIN. Example: if you used Saturday the next day you may use will be Tuesday because Sunday and Monday would be the two kratom free days.
5. NO OPIATES. NONE AT ALL. You must absolutely avoid opiate usage, this is because there is cross-tolerance between kratom and opiates.
If you feel a desire to take kratom sooner than this schedule permits, DON'T do it, but (if you won't be driving or using power
tools) you may take kava, or chamomile, or valerian instead. These are not the same as kratom of course, but they will relax you, and will help control feelings of anxiety or irritability. Avoid kava though if you are drinking, using Tylenol(acetaminophen), or have a history of liver disease.
Herbal Explorer
Not everyone who uses kratom has difficulty in limiting how often they use it, but clearly some do. Fortunately for them, a kratom habit is MUCH less harmful than is a tobacco or alcohol habit. But, while kratom is NOT a "killer drug", and unlike too much alcohol it does not lead to out of control behavior, it is best not to develop any sort of drug habit, not even a relatively safe kratom habit.
Those who unwisely use kratom every day for weeks or longer may develop varying degrees of physical and psychological dependence on it. If they then quit 'cold turkey' they may experience withdrawal symptoms. These can range from none at all, to trivial, to mild, to moderate in severity. Most people report trivial to mild withdrawal symptoms, but some have a rougher time of it. Life threatening withdrawal symptoms will not occur, but some people will get pretty uncomfortable. Kratom withdrawal symptoms often resemble those of a very mild cold, but if moderately severe may include runny nose, chilly or feverish sensations, muscle aches, watery eyes, depressed mood, anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, irritability and diarrhea.
The withdrawal syndrome is self-limiting, and the worst of it is over in about 4 days. Milder symptoms may persist several more days. Kratom withdrawal is not the end of the world, but is not something one wants to go through.
So how can a kratom user avoid EVER going through this discomfort? It's really very simple to do, IF from the beginning of your kratom use, you make sure you don't take it more often than twice a week. Just remember that those who never take kratom more often than twice per week will NOT experience any symptoms of kratom withdrawal when they do without it.
For many kratom users, keeping usage to twice a week (or less often), and never using it two days in a row, is easy to do. It works painlessly for me. And there are real advantages to limiting one's use to twice a week: kratom will not lose its pleasure, you won't wind up spending all your money on kratom, and you won't become dependent on it. These are three excellent reasons for never using it more than twice in any one week.
Yet, truth be told, on the kratom lists, there are some kratom users (many of these with a history of addiction to far more damaging substances than kratom) who report they find it difficult to stick to twice a week usage. For them I recommend giving up kratom completely as the safest course of action. However, many are unwilling to do this, yet who really do wish to keep their usage within the twice a week safe limit, but find that 'somehow' they are using it more often than they intend.
The plan which follows is written for such people, those who wish to limit their use to twice a week, but who need the specific help a detailed, no-exceptions plan can provide.
Note: This is a plan for those not currently physically dependent on kratom, who wish to continue to use kratom without getting hooked. Those who are currently dependent on kratom should first come off kratom completely (either cold turkey, or through a gradual taper) and remain kratom-free for at least several weeks. Then they should carefully consider whether they really have the will-power to stick to this plan (many with a history of addictions, do not). If they are unsure, they would be best off not resuming kratom use at all. But if they wish to try the plan they must make a sincere committment to stick to it without exception, and follow it to the letter. IF FOLLOWED EXACTLY the following plan should work.
The Controlled Use Plan
Follow these five simple rules. So long as you do so, WITHOUT EXCEPTION, your kratom usage should AUTOMATICALLY remain in control. The trick is to follow these five rules without exception. No excuses for breaking these rules. If you break the rules, you simply are not following the plan. Print these rules out, and keep them handy to refer to.
1. USE A CALENDAR FOR FEEDBACK. Mark your actual (not intended but actual) days of kratom usage on a calendar, i.e., make a mark on the calendar each day when you actually take kratom. Don't fill out the calendar in advance. This way you can't fool yourself about how often you really use kratom. The calendar will provide feedback to you about how you are doing. This feedback is important. If your calendar shows that you are breaking the following rules, quit kratom IMMEDIATELY because you are starting to lose control.
2. USE ONLY ONCE ON THE WEEKEND. If you use it on Saturday you may not use it on Sunday.
3. USE ONLY ONCE DURING THE WORK-WEEK. If you use kratom on Tuesday, you may not use it again Wednesday, or Thursday or Friday.
4. ALWAYS ALLOW AT LEAST TWO KRATOM FREE DAYS BEFORE USING AGAIN. Example: if you used Saturday the next day you may use will be Tuesday because Sunday and Monday would be the two kratom free days.
5. NO OPIATES. NONE AT ALL. You must absolutely avoid opiate usage, this is because there is cross-tolerance between kratom and opiates.
If you feel a desire to take kratom sooner than this schedule permits, DON'T do it, but (if you won't be driving or using power
tools) you may take kava, or chamomile, or valerian instead. These are not the same as kratom of course, but they will relax you, and will help control feelings of anxiety or irritability. Avoid kava though if you are drinking, using Tylenol(acetaminophen), or have a history of liver disease.
Herbal Explorer
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Red Vein or White Vein Kratom
Ok, so there's a debate on whether or not there's a Red Vein or a White Vein Kratom. Here's a video of a Rifat Strain Mitragyna Speciosa tree. See if you can tell if it's Red or White. After guessing, tell us why you think it is the color you chose. BTW, this is a trick question for those of you who haven't picked up on that yet. =)
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Kratom and Responsibility
I decided to go to Google search and see if the old site was indexed as Google will have a cache of the site stored. Lo and behold, it was, so I copied the text from the old blog and am posting it here now in its entirety minus the comments made:
"Making Kratom Illegal
Posted in Gary by admin on May 25th, 2007
Everyone who supports the use of any ethno-botanical or botanical should do what they can to make sure that we act responsibly not only in our use of herbs but in what we say on and in any public forum whether it be to our own family members, our educators, our spiritual leaders or via the internet blogs and forums unless of course they are supporters already.
Many will go against something that frightens them for no other reason than that they fear the unknown. Racism is a good example of this. Racists will judge another human being based upon the color of their skin. Their culture and mannerisms are foreign to them and are viewed as a threat whether real or imagined.
What can we do to protect our right to buy and sell Kratom? Education and discretion.
True, not all can be educated and admittedly there a some things in our own lives that need improving yet we do nothing about it and this should remind us that those we want educated may or may not listen to what we have to say and we therefore must be patient.
Discretion. This should be a no-brainer and over and over I find references to illicit and illegal drugs and drug use being compared to Kratom. Law enforcement and those looking for a reason to make Kratom and other herbs illegal are actively documenting references to Kratom and any negativity related to it.
Watch what you post and watch what you say and the life of Kratom remaining legal may be prolonged for days to come.
Gary
Kratomplants.com "
"Making Kratom Illegal
Posted in Gary by admin on May 25th, 2007
Everyone who supports the use of any ethno-botanical or botanical should do what they can to make sure that we act responsibly not only in our use of herbs but in what we say on and in any public forum whether it be to our own family members, our educators, our spiritual leaders or via the internet blogs and forums unless of course they are supporters already.
Many will go against something that frightens them for no other reason than that they fear the unknown. Racism is a good example of this. Racists will judge another human being based upon the color of their skin. Their culture and mannerisms are foreign to them and are viewed as a threat whether real or imagined.
What can we do to protect our right to buy and sell Kratom? Education and discretion.
True, not all can be educated and admittedly there a some things in our own lives that need improving yet we do nothing about it and this should remind us that those we want educated may or may not listen to what we have to say and we therefore must be patient.
Discretion. This should be a no-brainer and over and over I find references to illicit and illegal drugs and drug use being compared to Kratom. Law enforcement and those looking for a reason to make Kratom and other herbs illegal are actively documenting references to Kratom and any negativity related to it.
Watch what you post and watch what you say and the life of Kratom remaining legal may be prolonged for days to come.
Gary
Kratomplants.com "
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