Let’s keep an eye out for how the cannabis issue plays out as a tax issue, since SCOTUS ruled in 1969 that requiring an illegal drug possessor to apply for and pay for a federal tax stamp forced them to incriminate themselves, violating the 5th Amendment's protection against self-incrimination. Once decriminalized, the dynamic changes, and the fed would need to states to assist with other substance prohibitions, which the states won’t. Kratom is another story line as well.
I found kratom on the Jersey Shore last summer being sold in incredibly expensive bottles by teenage cashiers at surf shops . I did not buy any, but I read the fine print on one bottle. It gave the company name as Just Kratom Capsules of Hollywood, Florida. But when I visited their web address later, it said that they were located in Watertown, South Dakota. Finding such labeling in such a venue doesn't inspire much trust. Investigating the drug itself is difficult, however, because every opinion has a political element in the age of drug prohibition. One is never so much saying what they think about the drug as they are telling us whether they think the drug should be banned or not and then marshalling statistics accordingly. This is why I feel that we must someday establish a completely depoliticized authoritative source that explains the known risks and benefits of all drugs as judged based on actual use (including aspirin and antidepressants), especially highlighting the "best use" practices that work for different people with different reasons for using, etc. But first we'll have to stop the antiscientific practice of banning substances under the pretext that they are bad in and of themselves. Had Bush or Reagan outlawed Botox based on its abstract toxicity, then migraine sufferers would have had to go without the benefits that the substance would later be shown to have for their condition. https://www.abolishthedea.com/notes_about_the_madness_of_drug_prohibition.php
Unfortunately, the labeling issue is with all dietary and nonprescription supplements, “distributed by” without specifying the actual manufacturing source.
The American Botanical Council is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that publishes a peer-reviewed journal, HerbalGram and a monthly HerbalEGram. In addition, through its HerbClip™ database and Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program (BAPP), ABC continuously indexes, reviews, and synthesizes global clinical trials, toxicology reports, and analytical testing methodologies related to herbals, safety, quality control, and pharmacology, like kratom.
You may have heard of them.
ABC has published critical analyses evaluating FDA safety warnings. ABC pointed out that early toxicity reports and death statistics cited by agencies often involved poly-pharmacy (co-ingestion of classical opioids, sedatives, or illicit substances) or heavy metal/microbial contamination rather than pure botanical Mitragyna toxicity alone.
Thanks for the information. That's another "landmine" I have encountered in trying to gauge the abstract danger of a substance based on online information. Upon closer inspection, deaths attributed to a drug often involve the use of multiple drugs -- all of them of questionable purity.
Let’s keep an eye out for how the cannabis issue plays out as a tax issue, since SCOTUS ruled in 1969 that requiring an illegal drug possessor to apply for and pay for a federal tax stamp forced them to incriminate themselves, violating the 5th Amendment's protection against self-incrimination. Once decriminalized, the dynamic changes, and the fed would need to states to assist with other substance prohibitions, which the states won’t. Kratom is another story line as well.
I found kratom on the Jersey Shore last summer being sold in incredibly expensive bottles by teenage cashiers at surf shops . I did not buy any, but I read the fine print on one bottle. It gave the company name as Just Kratom Capsules of Hollywood, Florida. But when I visited their web address later, it said that they were located in Watertown, South Dakota. Finding such labeling in such a venue doesn't inspire much trust. Investigating the drug itself is difficult, however, because every opinion has a political element in the age of drug prohibition. One is never so much saying what they think about the drug as they are telling us whether they think the drug should be banned or not and then marshalling statistics accordingly. This is why I feel that we must someday establish a completely depoliticized authoritative source that explains the known risks and benefits of all drugs as judged based on actual use (including aspirin and antidepressants), especially highlighting the "best use" practices that work for different people with different reasons for using, etc. But first we'll have to stop the antiscientific practice of banning substances under the pretext that they are bad in and of themselves. Had Bush or Reagan outlawed Botox based on its abstract toxicity, then migraine sufferers would have had to go without the benefits that the substance would later be shown to have for their condition. https://www.abolishthedea.com/notes_about_the_madness_of_drug_prohibition.php
Unfortunately, the labeling issue is with all dietary and nonprescription supplements, “distributed by” without specifying the actual manufacturing source.
The American Botanical Council is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that publishes a peer-reviewed journal, HerbalGram and a monthly HerbalEGram. In addition, through its HerbClip™ database and Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program (BAPP), ABC continuously indexes, reviews, and synthesizes global clinical trials, toxicology reports, and analytical testing methodologies related to herbals, safety, quality control, and pharmacology, like kratom.
You may have heard of them.
ABC has published critical analyses evaluating FDA safety warnings. ABC pointed out that early toxicity reports and death statistics cited by agencies often involved poly-pharmacy (co-ingestion of classical opioids, sedatives, or illicit substances) or heavy metal/microbial contamination rather than pure botanical Mitragyna toxicity alone.
Thanks for the information. That's another "landmine" I have encountered in trying to gauge the abstract danger of a substance based on online information. Upon closer inspection, deaths attributed to a drug often involve the use of multiple drugs -- all of them of questionable purity.