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Understanding Kratom’s Effects, Risks, and Withdrawal Through Personal Experience (www.youtube.com)
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I've known Evan Edinger for years, he's been on Lateral, I'm in one of his upcoming videos, we've hung out plenty of times: and I had absolutely no idea that, for a lot of the time I've known him, he was struggling with an addiction to a drug that's sold in a lot of US gas stations. (Occasional strong language.) This is a personal, heartfelt story that's told with laser-like precision in word choice, and I'd recommend it -- if only to learn what this stuff is so you stay away from it.

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[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 3 months ago

It’s kratom and kava, basically, which are addictive but unregulated herbs that have been sold for decades under various names. Nothing new here, just a complete failure (yet again) of the regulatory system of the us government.

Drug prohibition doesn’t necessarily need to be the solution here; but regulatory implementation that would ensure consumers were adequately warned of the risks involved and that such products weren’t buried behind misleading labeling/advertising would at least be a start