Yes, heroin is isolated from a natural plant. My point is that the argument "natural = good" is an illogical one.
Uchies wrote:
Also, kratom is also definitely not "13x more powerful than morphine"...
Yes it is. Here is a source showing that 7-hydroxymitraginine has thirteen times the analgesic potency of morphine.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4660513/Uchies wrote:
Kratom has a plateau effect, in which after a certain amount is ingested, the effects do not increasingly become more powerful. It just so happens that the plateau is incredibly low, and it tops off after mild analgesic and skeletal relaxing effects. You can't just take a bunch of kratom and get high. The only opiate that also acts this way is buprenorphine, but unlike kratom, you can get strong "high" effects from it.
That's not how drugs work. Opioids are opioids. Too much of them and you can overdose. With Kratom, the "plateau" you're talking about is likely the fact that you can't ingest enough of the plant matter to overdose on it. Which is probably true. But again I'm not seeing any scientific sources from you.
Uchies wrote:
I'm just saying don't throw kratom out the window just yet, it worked for me, and works for other people... I swear, sometimes marijuana blinds people in their beliefs. Just because marijuana is good, doesn't mean that other things can't be good too.
Who are you arguing with? I've said none of the things you're talking about. It's great that it works for you, and other people. But when it comes to scientific data, CBD has decades, and Kratom has virtually none. You show me that it works, and how it works, that's one thing, but until then kratom is not much more than other "alternative" (see: unproven) medical treatments.