I also kicked all those habits. I'm curious and I was a bit of psychonaut. This isn't me defending myself as not having an addictive personality, I'm sure I do

I also kicked all those habits. I'm curious and I was a bit of psychonaut. This isn't me defending myself as not having an addictive personality, I'm sure I do, but I managed to stop smoking, coffee, alcohol and marijuana, some of those at the same time. Addiction is a problem that still plagues pretty much every country but even then I wouldn't say I'm necessarily in favor of banning kratom. My original comment was only to point out that it clearly isn't as benign as a wide range of people make it seem. Of course if you go on the kratom subreddit you'll see addicts praising its benefits and rationalizing all sort of life improvements in the short term, as well as legitimate "success" stories, but most people who kicked the addiction don't repeatedly frequent and post there. I'd think this massive bias to be fairly obvious, but it might be worth repeating (this isn't aimed at your comment specifically).