alt Hacker News>All when you can dry a leaf and use it as-is.
With no evidence of efficacy that the aforementioned expensive years of testing/trials provide.
>All when you can dry a leaf and use it as-is.
With no evidence of efficacy that the aforementioned expensive years of testing/trials provide.
They didn't have to include women in drug trials until 1993.
I'm not going "science isn't always right!" but it can absolutely be a racket with major blindspots and regulatory capture that ensures cures and treatments can only reach patients if it makes sufficient profit.
Kratom didn't just sprout up one day in 2014. It's been used as a form of traditional medicine in its home regions longer than there's been an FDA.
It's one thing to say "I think chemical compounds marketed as medicine should be given rigorous study", but a whole other thing to declare classes of unrefined plants illegal because not enough fingers are in the pie yet.
I'm convinced half the reason we don't have realistic cannabis regulation in this country is because it grows like a weed and cannot be controlled to the extent it would need to be in order for companies to build up full control.