Chad Corral

[Chad Corral @CorralChad]

@LeafWithTaylor @OGKratomQueen Literally nobody called natural kratom “gas station heroin” until a few weeks ago. That term was coined for tianeptine, and then later adopted for 7OH. And since the media thinks it’s all the same, they artificially started calling kratom that. The ignorance is so frustrating.

[Chad Corral @CorralChad]

@ProsperCLT2023 I mean I do agree they need to stop trying to ban kratom and hemp, but isn’t this just age gating it to 21+ like alcohol?

[Chad Corral @CorralChad]

@jmkillingnyc @supportprop @CDCgov @US_FDA The FDA has been specifically targeting the semisyntheics like 7OH products, not natural kratom. They’ve gone out of their way to explain they’re not concerned with natural kratom. I do agree the media at large though has been very irresponsible when speaking about natural kratom

[Chad Corral @CorralChad]

@TisIsNasTherapy 7OH is not kratom

[Chad Corral @CorralChad]

@KratomStory Literally nobody called kratom “gas station heroin” until like 2 weeks ago. They used that term for tianeptine and 7OH. But I guess anti kratom folks started using it and got it to stick and now the media is doing its thing. Very unfortunate.

[Chad Corral @CorralChad]

@kratomfactcheck @LeafWithTaylor @Ch52471437Wendy I just pointed out the exact things that you said were different between kratom and alcohol in terms of regulation. Word for word. You make arguments about regulations but then move the goalposts when asked “okay what if we did that?”.

[Chad Corral @CorralChad]

@JeniferPMartin1 I remember reading about that. Only one was mitragynine only but even in that case it wasn’t proven to be the cause of death. If normal doses of Mitragynine were killing people left and right, the NIH wouldn’t have gotten approved for a human clinical study

[Chad Corral @CorralChad]

@tigrizz901 @OleHairyViking @HunterBiden @fitscapades Yeah the media really failed with this whole story. He had like a one week supply for a normal user. 2 months earlier. Like I said they found drug paraphernalia and early sources said it was fent. Him having a small amount on him 2 months earlier in another state is not a story.

[Chad Corral @CorralChad]

@fitscapades @OleHairyViking @HunterBiden Kratom has helped a lot of people get off opioids or deal with chronic pain. My wife uses it for her condition and it’s a lifesaver. The problem is greedy companies started making ultra concentrated and synthetics and putting them in gas stations. That's asking for trouble.

[Chad Corral @CorralChad]

@OleHairyViking @HunterBiden @fitscapades Kratom or 7OH? Both can cause dependence but 7OH hooks you much faster and has much worse withdrawl. Stuff like Feel Free shouldn’t be in gas stations but natural kratom powder does help a lot of people.

[Chad Corral @CorralChad]

@ScaryTerryWeed @GrimmGreen 7OH and tianeptine are gas station opioids. Natural kratom is mild and helps a lot of people. As always, it’s the shady cooking up synthetics in a lab that are the problem.

[Chad Corral @CorralChad]

@JeniferPMartin1 @Ch52471437Wendy 95% actually. It’s disingenuous framing and it’s purposeful.

[Chad Corral @CorralChad]

@kratomfactcheck Wait I thought all the “kratom deaths” were from “mitragynine toxicity” and all were normal amounts. If that’s true, then this Mitragynine drug would have also killed them, right? But if this study proves Mitragynine is safe…. Hmm.

[Chad Corral @CorralChad]

@MelodyGutierrez @nytimes This is disingenuous. They found “drug paraphernalia” at the scene. There’s no such thing as kratom paraphernalia! Kratom was banned in TN and removed from shelves in CA. So he lost access to kratom, turned to harder drugs for his pain. Kratom prohibition may have killed him.

[Chad Corral @CorralChad]

@mattbarrows @MelodyGutierrez Kratom had nothing to do with it. They found “drug paraphernalia” at the scene. There’s no such thing as kratom paraphernalia! Kratom was banned in TN and removed from shelves in CA. So he lost access to kratom, then had to turn to harder drugs. Kratom prohibition killed him.

[Chad Corral @CorralChad]

@heraldleader I agree that it’s unconstitutional according to the Kentucky constitution section 51. However it sucks that Feel Free are the only brand with enough money to do all this litigation because them being in every gas station is part of why these bans are happening.

[Chad Corral @CorralChad]

@Cernovich 7OH is NOT kratom. They made a bunch of synthetic offshoots. That’s what changed. The natural plant has always been the same, and that’s what we need to protect.

[Chad Corral @CorralChad]

@Cernovich It’s still just natural kratom, same as always. What has changed is the synthetics that are out now that masquerade as kratom. Or little extract shots with kava and other stuff added. The plant has always been the same and we need to keep it that way.

[Chad Corral @CorralChad]

@nytimes @TheAthletic 7OH is NOT kratom. The term “gas station heroin” has always been used for tianeptine and 7OH. Nobody ever called natural kratom that until like a week or two ago, specifically because the public and the media at large constantly conflate 7OH and kratom.