Doctor: "Make this guy feel like shit for a couple days. Stat."This is good news.. but, playing Devil's Advocate here, I have mixed feelings about actually making tudei illegal, rather than simply enforcing labeling standards. As we have discussed here, for some it does have legitimate medical uses.
"Take tudei and call me the morning after tomorrow."Doctor: "Make this guy feel like shit for a couple days. Stat."
Does this mean the FDA is actively listening to this process, or "should" in the hopeful sense? And any news on the liver warning being lifted as part of this?Once the Codex standards are in place, the FDA should be changing their definition of Piper methysticum.
Right, but I'm talking about people with for example muscle pain who might use high DHM strains for the extreme muscle-melting effect/pain relief.As far as I know, medicinal cultivars are only identified in Vanuatu and Hawaii. The Kava Act prohibits their export from Vanuatu, but there is some good information out there about Hawaiian medicinal use, Nene is a prime example.
But medicinal cultivars are not to be confused with two days; they have an FK content very similar to noble. Dr. Lebot states: "...for flavokavains, their content is similar to nobles and their effect is not as good as noble, but nothing like twodays."
IMO tudei should be legal, but required to be clearly labeled with appropriate warnings. I understand the argument about potential liver problems with tudei giving all of kava a bad name. But on the other hand, it is depriving people of something that some people want and like. I think the big problem now is that tudei is being sold as noble to unaware consumers. Strict testing and labeling requirements would fix that without going so far as making it illegal.There are plenty of 245xxx kavas out there that are noble, but this will knock out all x5xxxx. Larger dose of 245xxx should work fine, and without so many side effects.
When you say medicinal, does that mean the effects are stronger than the usual batch, or do they offer different benefits? What are some known medicinal kavas besides Nene?As far as I know, medicinal cultivars are only identified in Vanuatu and Hawaii. The Kava Act prohibits their export from Vanuatu, but there is some good information out there about Hawaiian medicinal use, Nene is a prime example.
But medicinal cultivars are not to be confused with two days; they have an FK content very similar to noble. Dr. Lebot states: "...for flavokavains, their content is similar to nobles and their effect is not as good as noble, but nothing like twodays."