This has bounced between 0 and 1 points a couple times now... I realize this isn't about me promoting my own business, because that is something that definitely allowed and encouraged on this site. I would really like to engage in a discussion with whoever thinks that posts about drugs deserve to be modded down.
Re:Are you an Introvert or an Extrovert?
by DanielBMarkham on Monday October 22, 2007 @10:07PM
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Why don't you do a "Ask YC" post. Ask folks if they think it's okay to have a startup business where you sell plants that have psychoactive agents yet are still legal.
I like to hear the discussion on that one! (Still thinking it through myself)
:) ok
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=71371
My viewpoint is that all anti-kratom arguments boil down to pro-pharmaceutical company unlogic. In my opinion, to be against what I am doing without hypocrisy, you have to be against the drug-pushing of the US pharmaceutical industry as well.
I find it a bit jarring. Can you imagine a celebrity doing a TV spot starting with:
"If I'm going to be doing chemically enhanced social interaction, my substance of choice is kratom."
And then cite benefits and studies. YCers might put their website on the front page, but I don't see it happening much in the comments.
Yes, I am shilling my own business, no that doesn't mean you need to mod me down (I seem to always get modded down when I talk about the benefits of kratom. But it is a medicinal herb with enormously untapped potential as a legal pharmaceutical. Another thing to work for, eventually.)