Submission statement: This article details corruption within the Trump administration that leads to people taking life-destroying drugs that are often marketed as candy, or look more like 5 hour energies, with absolutely no disclosure or information. The article shows that it only takes a $1,000,000 stake for Trump officials to throw American lives into a drug-fueled spiral.
> Mr. Mullin, until recently a Republican senator from Oklahoma, played a key role in a sprawling influence campaign spearheaded by the kratom industry that courted Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Vice President JD Vance, among others in the Trump administration, an investigation by The New York Times found.
> Only when he was nominated by Mr. Trump in March to lead the Homeland Security Department did it become clear that Mr. Mullin had a financial connection to the supplement. In a disclosure statement, he listed an investment worth as much as $1 million in a kratom company, Botanic Tonics, that could benefit from the changes he has sought.
BasedTroutFursona on
A dem president should absolutely nuke this industry
Mitra_The_Man on
Botanic Tonics / Feel Free are the worst kind of company. I’ve taken natural kratom leaf powder for 15 years and my wife relies open it for her auto immune condition. It’s a shitty recreational drug because it doesn’t really get you high in natural form. It can cause dependency though if used in high amounts over several months. So Botanic Tonics figured out they can add HUGE amounts of kava to it to give it that euphoric feeling (it’s called krunk for kava drunk), and then put it by the cash register at gas stations to get unsuspecting people to try it. These little blue bottles have done SO much damage to Kratom’s reputation, of course along with the synthetics like 7OH.
Kratom has its place and does help a lot of people, but it should NOT be in gas stations and definitely shouldn’t be in little easy to drink bottles mixed with other inebriating stuff and put right by the cash register. That’s just asking for trouble.
These assholes are going to make hundreds of millions of dollars while they eventually fuck over responsible kratom users with their predatory tactics. And now to top it off we have the even worse 7OH assholes doing the same.
SenranHaruka on
This shit gives me crazy anxiety that one day I’m gonna buy a can of soda from the corner store and get addicted to some obscure cocaine convergent.
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Submission statement: This article details corruption within the Trump administration that leads to people taking life-destroying drugs that are often marketed as candy, or look more like 5 hour energies, with absolutely no disclosure or information. The article shows that it only takes a $1,000,000 stake for Trump officials to throw American lives into a drug-fueled spiral.
> Mr. Mullin, until recently a Republican senator from Oklahoma, played a key role in a sprawling influence campaign spearheaded by the kratom industry that courted Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Vice President JD Vance, among others in the Trump administration, an investigation by The New York Times found.
> Only when he was nominated by Mr. Trump in March to lead the Homeland Security Department did it become clear that Mr. Mullin had a financial connection to the supplement. In a disclosure statement, he listed an investment worth as much as $1 million in a kratom company, Botanic Tonics, that could benefit from the changes he has sought.
A dem president should absolutely nuke this industry
Botanic Tonics / Feel Free are the worst kind of company. I’ve taken natural kratom leaf powder for 15 years and my wife relies open it for her auto immune condition. It’s a shitty recreational drug because it doesn’t really get you high in natural form. It can cause dependency though if used in high amounts over several months. So Botanic Tonics figured out they can add HUGE amounts of kava to it to give it that euphoric feeling (it’s called krunk for kava drunk), and then put it by the cash register at gas stations to get unsuspecting people to try it. These little blue bottles have done SO much damage to Kratom’s reputation, of course along with the synthetics like 7OH.
Kratom has its place and does help a lot of people, but it should NOT be in gas stations and definitely shouldn’t be in little easy to drink bottles mixed with other inebriating stuff and put right by the cash register. That’s just asking for trouble.
These assholes are going to make hundreds of millions of dollars while they eventually fuck over responsible kratom users with their predatory tactics. And now to top it off we have the even worse 7OH assholes doing the same.
This shit gives me crazy anxiety that one day I’m gonna buy a can of soda from the corner store and get addicted to some obscure cocaine convergent.