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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.

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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.

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