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p14y80y


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Push for legalisation of kratom.
#18831398 - 09/12/13 07:33 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Push-for-legalisation-of-kratom-30214608.html
NCB will be urged to consider developing herb for economic benefits
Relevant authorities have decided to push for the legalisation of kratom (Mitragyna speciosa), a herb that for years has been included in the prohibited narcotics list.
Tomorrow, a committee tasked with the development of kratom policy/law will officially recommend that Justice Minister Chaikasem Nitisiri ask the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) via the public health minister to consider three options:
l Remove kratom from the banned narcotics list;
l Declare that kratom is just a psychoactive substance;
l Or come up with ways of maximising the use of kratom for economic benefits if it decides to continue including the herb on the narcotics list.
"The committee has already discussed this issue with representatives of relevant authorities including the National Security Council and the Food and Drug Administration," ONCB secretary-general Pongsapat Pongcharoen said yesterday in his capacity as the panel's chairman.
He added that the ONCB, meanwhile, would continue researching the impact kratom users might have on national security.
FDA deputy secretary-general Viroj Verachai said yesterday that if the ONCB agreed to remove kratom from the banned narcotics list, then the public health minister had the mandate to immediately announce its removal.
An ONCB report estimates that 404,548 people in Thailand used kratom in 2011, and of them, 200,000 were in the South.
As per the report, 11,339 kilograms of kratom has already been seized this year and most of the users were farmers and workers aged between 15 and 24. The report revealed that in Australia kratom was described as a herb containing controlled substances - alkaloids - while in the US, kratom is openly sold in shops for about Bt1,000 per packet.
However, the sale of this herb is controlled in Malaysia and Myanmar. In Malaysia, the Mitragyna genus in kratom is included in the list of controlled substances and any possession of it for sale is punishable by two years in jail.
Pongsapat said if the kratom was legally listed as a psychoactive substance, the authorities would need to ensure that kratom is not processed into more powerful drugs. "Chewing kratom leaves can be allowed provided they are not processed or mixed into anything else," he said.
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Re: Push for legalisation of kratom. [Re: p14y80y]
#18831416 - 09/12/13 07:39 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Wait so kratom is illegal?JESUS CHRIST THIS DRUG WAR IS CONFUSING AS FUCK. Kratom is illegal now right? But you can use it in some states, or is it just legal as a decoration? Is weed legal or illegal? From what I understand both of these things are legal, as long as your on the right side of the line? Or is it illegal because the feds are still having their temper tantrum?
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Chuckfinely
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i didnt know kratom was illegal lol
wasnt but a couple months ago everyone was just ordering it online
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Re: Push for legalisation of kratom. [Re: Chuckfinely] 1
#18831676 - 09/12/13 09:07 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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This is probably in Thailand. Pretty sure it's still legal in the U.S.
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p14y80y


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Re: Push for legalisation of kratom. [Re: lowbrow]
#18831960 - 09/12/13 10:42 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yes this is in another country, I believe Thailand. The US has no problems with Kratom at all. There are only a few states that there are differences with. Mainly you have to be 18 and over to purchase it and the other has to do with 1 or 2 of the main alkaloids in Kratom were banned because of the synthetic herbs being made and all the problems from other people using the Alkaloids to make their new "creation".
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p14y80y


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Re: Push for legalisation of kratom. [Re: p14y80y]
#18831968 - 09/12/13 10:45 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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OrgasmicBanana
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Re: Push for legalisation of kratom. [Re: p14y80y]
#18835122 - 09/13/13 12:06 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I thought a few states have made kratom illegal recently. Tennessee just did..
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p14y80y


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Maybe these will help. I am rather confused to, I think it might be hairy... in the air as there was movement and either only.
(This was May 2013 though) http://welovekratom.com/where-is-kratom-illegal-in-2013/
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/677034-Tennessee-to-ban-Kratom-on-July-1st
I am sure soon enough there will be something coming out information wise with what is accurate.
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Re: Push for legalisation of kratom. [Re: p14y80y]
#18836001 - 09/13/13 08:32 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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this may come as no surprise but packaging kratom and selling it in gas stations where the spice and bath salts used to live isn't helping the cause.
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