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We all have our weaknesses I guess. For me, nothing was harder to quit than pot. I've regularly used opiates, kratom, and even tobacco and I can pick them up

We all have our weaknesses I guess. For me, nothing was harder to quit than pot. I've regularly used opiates, kratom, and even tobacco and I can pick them up and put them down with ease and lack of noticable side effects (short of a few depressed days). Weed took weeks of dealing with lack of sleep, agression and obsessive thoughts before I broke free, and that was after many failed attempts. I have personally seen several friends kick regular pill habits with kratom and they got off it OK. We should discuss the downsides but from what I've seen the folks with kratom problems just took way too much(as addicts will do, I guess).

thatcat 8y ago
Everyone's body reacts a bit differently to different substances, legislation should seek to inform people of the possible downsides rather than banning it completely because some people react poorly. This is well understood with other psychological pharmaceuticals, but with recreational drugs it is frequently overlooked.
pnsr 8y ago
Pot would definitely be second in my list. It's at the complete polar opposite of the addiction spectrum in my experience, and I had no physical symptoms beyond having a harder time falling asleep (incomparable to my experience with Kratom though) but the psychological addiction was the strongest out of all of them. Of course Kratom didn't cause any sort of substantial psychological addition in me, the feeling of warmth and general "feel goodness" I got from it was comparable and probably milder than a cup of coffee after having been off of it for a couple days, and subsided quite quickly after daily use.