{"id":1569,"date":"2016-09-01T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T01:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2020-12-03T03:03:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T03:03:47","slug":"dea-plays-dumb-after-eviscerating-criticism-of-kratom-ban-kratom-march-is-september-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1569","title":{"rendered":"DEA Plays Dumb After Eviscerating Criticism Of Kratom Ban: Kratom March Is September 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DEA extended its authority far past what this weary public will tolerate.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to ban <a href=\"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.com\/red-dragon-kratom-everything-you-need-to-know\/\">kratom<\/a> is a futile death knell of the drug war, futile if only we continue standing up and flexing our rights.<\/p>\n<p>Public outcry, an unrelenting bombardment of opposition is here to set the record straight: kratom cannot be overdosed on, is relatively innocuous and it is our natural right to consume kratom if we please. It hasn\u2019t worked well for government, using force to try and stop people from ingesting substances in this drug war. We would clearly be foolish to continue tolerating this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It looks like our efforts are already paying off<\/strong>: perhaps shocked by the uproar, DEA spokesman\u00a0Melvin Patterson said\u00a0<i>\u201cShame on everyone who wasn\u2019t researching it before. Now you start hearing the stories about how it\u2019s benefiting someone suffering from arthritis.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalblaze.com\/2016\/09\/dea-kratom-ban-kratom-march.html\">Natural Blaze<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DEA extended its authority far past what this weary public will tolerate. Trying to ban kratom is a futile&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vitamins-supplements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1776,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/1776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}