Friday, October 3, 2014

Kratom, a dangerous "herb"

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This country is going to pot...literally and figuratively. There are way too many people on drugs, hard as well as synthetic. Young people think it's cool and now old hippies are on the band wagon to legalize medical marijuana.  God, can't they take a Tylenol? It's like waking up from a bad dream and I'm back in Haight Ashbury.

We have two businesses right in the heart of our downtown owed by a  convicted felon who went to federal prison for selling Mr. Nice Guy. He and his partner's  Kratom plant blew up.

The toxicology report just came back regarding the young man who jumped over an I-95 bridge and it showed he had Kratom and anti-depressents in his system. There are no restrictions on these "herbs"--Spice, K2, Mr. Nice Guy, and hundreds of others. The drugs often are called “synthetic marijuana” but they contain powerful chemicals called cannabimimetics and can cause dangerous health effects.

What's it going to take to ban this? What is it going to take to re-classify this from an herb to a dangerous substance? More people jumping off of bridges? A convicted felon blowing up another lab and going back to prison? 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I agree with you Lynn, what is happening to people in our society where everyone needs some type of drug, pill, smoke/ecig, drink, etc to get high or escape reality, is it really that bad for everyone? It is so sad, so many young people in middle and high schools are big pill poppers, we have no idea the out of control level it has reached, how sad for us! We have a serious problem here and I will nto vote to support this medical marijana vote, we do nto need it. Our society needs a lot of prayers to help to beat this drug issue now.

Anonymous said...

The guy that runs Surfs Up is scum. Not only does he lose your clothes, but he is at the Kava Bar everyday acting shady. Let's run these two drug addicts out of town!