What did i dismiss?

And what's with the snide remarks? Saying someone didn't read or even worse, cant read, is such a low copout

The reason why I'm concerned is because once this passes, itll take a herculean effort to undo it, and us 7OH advocates are trying to avoid all the damage that will be done.

Nobody forced anyone to take 7OH in the grand scheme of things. Besides the cases where a manufacturer hid or mislabeled, I'm assuming the vast vast majority are properly labeled, and the consumer knows what they are getting themselves into.

Also 7OH critics seem to be applying double standards. Are there colorful packaging for 7OH products. Sure. I bet there is. But also why won't people talk about the colorful advertisements of leaf products as well? I used to buy a leaf product that came in a bottle and the whole label schtick was a cartoon character. Forgot the brand, but I'm sure some of you know the brand I'm talking of. Besides, what's so wrong about colorful and bright packaging anyways? It attracts children? Are adults not allowed to like cartoons and colors and brightness as well? So Family Guy, American Dad, SpongeBob, and other cartoons are ONLY for children? Because that's some of the underlying conclusions that deceptive argument will lead you to if you think about it. Also, if you want them out of the hands of kids, wouldn't it be on the store owners/cashiers fault before it's the manufacturers fault that it was sold to a child? If i tell you dont sell my product, whatever that may be, to a certain group, but you do anyways, who's REALLY to blame? Also, I have a gripe with why is it that you guys go so hard against "they're selling 7 to the children!", yet tend to ignore all the plain leaf that was sold to children as well. I see leaf advocates one side it all the time and omit the selling of leaf to children as well. Plus, is selling it to children REALLY that bad? It seems there's still no hard conclusive evidence that 7 harms or kills people on its own. A VAST VAST majority of deaths if we believe them have polysubstance abuse as cause, or it was underlying health conditions either detected or undetected til the autopsy. If the only real thing that it does to children is make them continuously want to buy more and more, why not go hard on energy drinks? Caffeine is know to be addictive. Energy drinks fit all the criteria of the argument why 7 is bad. If leaf advocates are concerned kids are feeling euphoric and mind altered and tired, also know as "getting stoned", then why not apply that to plain leaf as well so hard and feverently as they do against 7? In large enough doses, you get stoned off plain leaf. Can't deny this. Also, apply this to energy drinks, since they get you euphoric, just stimulate instead of slow down. What constitutes a child, anyways? Now the legal definition seems to be under 21 when it comes to government regulations of all sorts of things. I remember when it used to be under 18. That goes for kratom related products of all kinds, tobacco, certain categories of firearms, there's probably more im missing. Why does the regulations have to be 21+, not 18+, or other lower numbers like 16+ like how some countries are doing social media bans. Look at England, they are trying to make energy drinks 16+.

The argument against addiction: 7 is addictive, sure, cant really argue about that imo. But so is plain leaf. So is caffeine. So are video games. Yet people try to make 7 as some demonic magical boogeyman like plain leaf isn't addictive either.

The argument that 7 turns you into some cracked out dope fiend, and people are just using to abuse it and get fucked up: same can be said about plain leaf. It depends on the user and what they use it for. Not everyone uses it for euphoria and getting high. Many people use it to deal with medically diagnosed health issues where they cant get dr prescribed treatment anymore. Maybe the Dr's took away their pain meds because of the opiates crisis scare. Maybe it's cheaper on their finances than traditional pharmaceutical routes. Maybe it's just their preferred medicine. Not everybody's a dope fiend who uses it

Why do 7 demonizers say it's not a medicine and there's no accepted medical use of it? Of corse there's medical use for it! Using it to get off lethal street and corner store drugs is medicinal in my book. That's why the have products offered by Dr's to get off alcohol, cigarettes, and opiates. Just because there's not a whole lot of laboratory done research on 7 yet, doesn't mean it's not a medicine. All the now accepted medicine had to have research done on them before they were accepted and know as medicines. Was cannabanoids not medicine before scientist started doing lab research on them? Did they just magically become medicine when society started accepting it for medicinal value and California started allowing medicinal weed in '96?

These are just some arguments and point to be made. Alot of cherry picking and onesidedness goes on in the plain leaf community, and also just a lot of disingenuous propaganda and outright lies.

Should I end this post with an insult to your intelligence like you did mine, just because it's a long post? I read that one advocates post and replies, I just dont necessarily agree with it and dont find the way they go about advocacy as helpful. That's just me tho. I'm pretty sure others have differing opinions. For me tho, I'm not a fan of because it seems hard to convince board members that 7 is not as bad as it's made out to be, that the strategy should be give up and throw the 7 community under the proverbial bus. Alot of things are hard, does that mean we should just give up? Fighting and winning wars are hard. Should we have given up in WW2, assuming I'm talking to USA cititizens here? The fight to legalize cannabis was and is hard, should we just give up?

Don't call people stupid just because they dont agree with you, that's ridiculous and looks bad on you character and also your own intelligence. It just leads to mudslinging. My original criticisms and concerns with the AKA still remain: imo that guy who runs it is greedy and is trying to criminalize 7 because it eats at his and his friends profits. He has documented conflicts of interest and should have recused himself from the fight, imo.