{"id":84185,"date":"2025-08-06T01:47:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T07:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=84185"},"modified":"2025-08-06T01:47:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T07:47:50","slug":"state-gives-a-deadly-gift-to-fentanyl-makers-big-pharma-and-drug-warriors-a-ban-on-kratom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/state-gives-a-deadly-gift-to-fentanyl-makers-big-pharma-and-drug-warriors-a-ban-on-kratom\/","title":{"rendered":"State Gives a Deadly Gift to Fentanyl Makers, Big Pharma, and Drug Warriors \u2014 A Ban on Kratom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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State Gives a Deadly Gift to Fentanyl Makers, Big Pharma, and Drug Warriors \u2014 A Ban on Kratom<\/a><\/h1>\n

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This Friday, August 1, 2025, Louisiana will criminalize a leaf. Not fentanyl. Not meth. Not synthetic opioids that kill over 100,000 Americans every year. No, lawmakers have decided to outlaw kratom \u2014 a safe, natural plant in the coffee family \u2014 and those caught with it could face six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.<\/h2>\n

To understand the full weight of this insanity, you have to peel back the curtain on the drug war\u2019s real purpose. It\u2019s not about keeping people safe. It\u2019s about criminalizing autonomy. It\u2019s about corporate profits, institutional control, and punishing people for the crime of treating themselves outside of state-approved chemical dependency.<\/h2>\n

Kratom isn\u2019t the threat. The threat is what it replaces.<\/h2>\n

The Lie That Keeps Killing<\/h2>\n

For years, scientists, doctors, and hundreds of thousands of kratom users have warned the federal government:\u00a0ban this plant, and opioid deaths will rise<\/strong>.<\/h2>\n

In 2018,\u00a0a group of scientists wrote<\/a>\u00a0to the DEA and White House, blasting the FDA’s push to classify kratom as a Schedule I drug. They made it clear: kratom, when used in its natural form, does\u00a0not<\/strong>\u00a0cause respiratory depression \u2014 the primary cause of death in opioid overdoses. More importantly, the plant has become a\u00a0lifeline away from opioids<\/strong>\u00a0for millions.<\/h2>\n

RTWT @ The Free Thought Project<\/a><\/h2>\n

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State Gives a Deadly Gift to Fentanyl Makers, Big Pharma, and Drug Warriors \u2014 A Ban on Kratom   This Friday, August 1, 2025, Louisiana will criminalize a leaf. Not fentanyl. Not meth. Not synthetic opioids that kill over 100,000 Americans every year. No, lawmakers have decided to outlaw kratom \u2014 a safe, natural plant…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16280,18885,16347,3688,14643,14588,5594,3176,5176,5971,17107,2352,16173,15639,3712],"tags":[18886,18887,2872,7806,18728,17195,18888,9527,16142,10579],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84188,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84185\/revisions\/84188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}