Nick Pell

I thought about it for its legal high purposes, but the cashier told me it was super addictive.

So I passed.

The cashier.

OK, is it super addictive?

Well, that's complicated and we'll get into it later.

So Kratom is a plant in the same family as the coffee plant.

So you'd think it would be a stimulant and you'd be sort of right.

In lower doses, it acts as a mild stimulant.

People get chatty, focused, sociable, energetic.

But at higher doses?

At higher doses, it does the opposite.

It kind of acts like a legal light opioid.

Some people take it for focus, clarity, and energy, while other people take it to calm down, manage anxiety, or even to just get

You can get pretty dopey off of it from what I've seen.

I've heard it compared to a weak version of Vicodin.

It can give you slurred speech, a floaty feeling, drowsiness, and you can even nod on it, I'm told.

Nod?

What does that mean?

When you do opioids, one of the things that happens is that you're in this weird kind of asleep but not really state called the nod.

You kind of drool on yourself and then you wake up with a start like, and then you repeat that process.