Kratom: a natural pain killing alternative

I guess I'm one of those crazy people now: the people pissed at the government for trying to ban a plant from being used for medicinal purposes. Today we are talking about Kratom: it's made from a plant. It's being used as an alternative to pharmaceutical pain killers by people who don't want to be addicted to vicodin, percocet, and other heavy opiates. Yes, Kratom is an opiate.  Now we have states banning the use of this because it might be addicting.

Lets talk about things that are addicting that the FDA has cleared:
1. Cigarettes
2. Soda Pop
3. EVERY OPIATE MEDICATION

But if the FDA/ States banned those there would be an uproar and a huge lack of funding from pharmaceutical corporations,  tobacco makers, and big corporations in Washington.

I use Kratom. I was prescribed Vicodin at the age of 18 because my periods were so painful, I couldn't attend classes. I was on those from 18-25. I still have an active prescription but don't need it anymore. I started taking Kratom last year when I found out about it at a smoke shop in my hometown. I had a long talk with the salesperson and then came home and did my research. What did I find? Tons of studies saying how Kratom is an amazing alternative to pharmacueticals and how it can be used to help those with addiction to heavy opiates reduce their need and frequency of use.  I pay $10 for 30 vicodin, but I happily pay $1 a pill for Kratom. When I take it, there are no side effects. I don't get woozy or disoriented. I can drive, work, continue my day like normal.

Our government banned marijuana: knowing full well that it cured cancer and helped control a number of other conditions. Our government knows full well that cigarettes and soda cause cancer and obesity. They know full well that pharmaceutical medications are highly addictive on both a physical and psychological level, but will not put a ban on them.

Kratom comes from a plant people! But our government isn't the first to ban it. It was banned in Thailand because it cut into the government's take of opium sales. People were using Kratom instead to cut their addiction to opium.

WAKE UP AMERICA! Stop letting the government, politicians, and big corporations determine what is acceptable and not acceptable to put in our bodies(lets just be logical: some things don't need to go in your body). Plants were the original medicines of the world. Our biggest problems started when we stopped using plants and instead made synthetic versions of medicines to replace them.

Kratom has helped me, and so many others to live without crazy side effects from pharmaceutical medications.

Please let your congresspeople, senators, local politicians, and even your doctors know that Kratom is a wonderful alternative. Before we let them take away a plant: they need to do as much research on Kratom as they have on marijuana(which is now legal in most states medicinally), and do as many clinical trials as for any other drug on the marketplace. If we're going to be fair about it, do the damn clinical trials, make it go through FDA approval. People won't stop using it regardless, but at least the FDA will have to create proof to ban it. If they want to put it in the same category as MMJ that's fine: make people have an honest talk with a doctor about their need for it. But if you're going to do that: you should do it for tylenol, advil, and Aleve as well(they are proven addictive).

Before you jump on your high horse, do your research like I did.

Here is the CNN article that talks about Kratom.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/10/health/kratom-opioid-withdrawal-pain-relief-supplement/index.html