Signed: a comrade who has had my health permanantly ruined by my parents constantly using natural medicine on me while I was growing up to "cure" my adhd and depression
Signed: a comrade who has had my health permanantly ruined by my parents constantly using natural medicine on me while I was growing up to "cure" my adhd and depression
I love(d) kratom until it got banned where I live.
There are a few people who grow it in my region and I'm a little bit envious that I never got my hands tree myself, although that probably would have been my ruin. It's really worthwhile mentioning that kratom gets touted as being benign like cannabis does except kratom can be addictive and if you've ever come across a proper kratom addict it's very much apparent that kratom is an addictive drug.
Tbh I do clutch my pearls a bit when people extoll kratom's virtues for kicking opioid habits without the caution that you can trade one addiction for another.
Just use it safely and be smart, and if you're prone to addiction use it with a healthy amount of caution especially, if you do choose to use it.
Yeah I did a little research on what it would take to grow at one point and it seemed like you basically need a green house with temperature control. A friend did tell me he was basically addicted to it but I never experienced anything like that, I quit cigarettes cold turkey years ago and never really suffered for it.
Oh for sure, and there's degrees of addiction too.
I take prescribed stimulant meds and (assuming I remember to take them regularly lol) I get withdrawals if I forget to take them. I'm not selling valuable possessions or causing lots of damage to my life because of it but I am undeniably on the gentle, clinically-acceptable end of the addiction scale (not to diminish the seriousness of addiction here or anything, just trying to destigmatise.)
I've seen people who were full-blown kratom addicts before when I was younger and it really left an impression on me because I had the preconception that it was just a cool & fun herb. It made me understand that kratom use needs to be treated with due caution and that addiction isn't something that respects society's hierarchy of whichever drugs/activities are more acceptable.