[evincarofautumn]

I don’t mean to evangelise too hard, but this is yet another reason to keep kratom legal in the US. Last I knew, over 30% of the world’s kratom is consumed by the US, and most of that is from Indonesia, specifically Borneo. Kratom is an understory crop that can be cultivated without clear-cutting as is done for palm oil; and if kratom growers can’t afford to stay in business because the US demand dries up, you can bet they’ll turn to palm oil and rubber, leading to more deforestation and more habitat loss for orangutans. This is in addition to what I believe is clear potential for kratom to be instrumental in fighting the epidemic of opioid painkiller and heroin abuse.