Congratulations to Canada for taking a step in the right direction. Russia is being a little bitch about it breaking international treaties, but I don't see the G7 going to war with Canada over weed.Maryjuanna (which will be legalised on july 2018) will be ruled by a branch of SAQ
Anyway, things aren't going so well here south of the border. A local news station posted an article online about a medical examiner blaming the deaths of 5 Michigan residents on kratom. These are not the type of headlines I like to see. They conveniently fail to mention the recent recall that halted sales of kratom for quite some time due to salmonella. But that would interfere with their agenda. Can't ban a substance for being contaminated by salmonella at one point, or else there wouldn't be any food products ever.
Then there's little gems like this:
I understand it's hard to think rationally when a loved one dies, but there was a man whose son died from poppy seed tea, and instead of calling for poppy seeds to be banned, created a website on the safe use of poppy pod and seed teas. Unlike this stupid lady on TV a few years back calling for a caffeine ban because her college-age son died of an overdose of the powdered form. I'm sorry, but if someone is snorting powdered caffeine or ingesting an ungodly amount of raw plant matter then they qualify for a Darwin award.“People don’t know Kratom,” said Carol Genautis, Eric’s mom.
She wants to change that.
“I want to make people more aware of what Kratom is, and that it’s dangerous. Eric thought it was a safe drug because it’s legal.”
Genautis’ mom and sister want Michigan legislators to outlaw what they consider a deadly drug.
“We want this Kratom to be illegal, off the market,” said Osborn.
Let's bring the statistics into play too: Throughout the entire USA, only 44 people have died with kratom in their system. Yes, in their system. There's been no conclusive proof that kratom was the sole cause of death. Most cases involve mixing it with true opioids. But that number is mind-boggling. 44 out of 325 million? That's 0.00001% of the population! You have a better chance of winning the powerball AND being struck by lightning twice in your lifetime than dying from kratom, and yet it's deadly and needs to be banned.
A Michigan senator is going to propose a bill to get it banned, and it's guaranteed to pass because politicians seem to think that anything that causes euphoria is automatically evil and needs to be regulated.
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