The kratom plant is part of the coffee family and has a 1000 year history of use in southeast Asia. If you are wondering what all the hysteria may be about, it is integral to know that drug companies have synthetic kratom tested and waiting in the wings to spin prescription bucks for them. Hence the smear campaign. Look up the clinical trials and the name “MGM-16”. Already in the pharmaceutical pipeline, synthesized from the alkaloids (not opioids) found in kratom: mitragynine & 7-hydroxymitragynine. The very two alkaloids that are used to make this new patentable pharmaceutical drug. Big Pharma needs to get rid of nature’s less expensive version.

Kratom is to Heroin or Opiates = what Caffeine is to Cocaine or Meth.