[olliej]

No particular opinion on kratom, but the problem historically with other drugs that produce a dependence is the dependence can exceed the amount someone can afford. The politician argument is that this will make them steal, etc

So I’d be careful with “only $x a month” as an argument.

Anyway if it is addictive it’s hard to imagine it being more addictive than oxycodone and that is totally legal and aggressively pushed by companies that know exactly how addictive it is, so mostly this goes back to the standard government motto of only making drugs legal if large companies can make a huge profit off it. Anything that can be easily grown by average consumers (like weed) doesn’t meet that requirement and so tends to be illegal.