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At this scale of time and given the size, age and distance of galaxies, it doesn't really mean anything that will ever change our lives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_cluster

We can't go there. Nothing from there will visit us.

If the big bang is even an actual thing, it still happened everywhere, whenever.

There are lots of galaxies, and they are old and far away.


you are very wrong. understanding the universe means understanding our very home, us, where we come from, where we are going to, how will this all end (ie in big contraction/endless expansion).

if this topic ain't for you, no problem, but it's extremely interesting to many others.



Hmmm, yeah, I thought kratom was part of the whole synthetic cannabinoid [0] crackdown, because homeless people and juggalos were smoking themselves out of their gords?

I figured it was all part of the "designer drug" problems that started with bath salts.

But honestly, what do I know? All these retarded products remind me of the days when kids would cut class in middle school and smoke Lipton's tea in rolled up pages from a looseleaf notebook. (get off my lawn!)

  [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_cannabinoids


kratom is usually sold as a powdered leaf. you can't smoke it, you can't snort it. you can make a tea out of it if you're diligent. a spoonful is usually swallowed as a powder with a thick juice.

it is habit-forming. to an addict it can stop withdrawals in it's tracks, to an opiate naive person it can provide a buzz, nothing extreme and the subsequent withdrawals are also nothing too terrible.

to an opiate addict it is, frankly, a life saver. this is something with the potential to free a person of an opiate addiction, provided they want to be free badly enough.

it's quite easy to use kratom to replace your drug of choice, not for getting high, it'd be pointless. you simply use the kratom to keep the withdrawals at bay. then, simply get off the kratom after a few weeks of use. you do this because kratom withdrawal is more forgiving than something like heroin.

this is impossible with methadone and suboxone. once you go on methadone, you better plan on never getting off. the withdrawals can quite literally last months.

people have successfully transitioned from methadone/suboxone to kratom and then quit use of opiates altogether, being free from the prison of withdrawal in a week instead of months.

this ban will only serve to worsen the structure fire that is the opiate epidemic.


Comments like these really makes a guy wonder...


methadone is not gonna sell itself. And Kratom is not really patentable.


Brings to mind the UN convention on drugs...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcotic_...

Also makes me wonder if the politicians that are heavily in favor of methadone programs are useful idiots for big pharma, or in their pocket.


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