...thanks and apologies...
First off, Eekamouse, I apologize for attacking you. I am at a point where unfounded/founded in half-truth criticism of me makes me snap. I am tired of defending myself when I am a loyal, good person who has been betrayed by most of the important people in my life so they could avoid paying me money they owed me. I don't care about the money... I want my friends back. But, they think that dodging me is the only option; and then turning other people against me. So, I let me internal anger boil over. This was wrong of me, and I apologize.
I am involved in the Kratom trade (not at the level I once was, but still am), and for the benefit of everyone reading this thread, I would like tell the truth about this wonderful tree. Kratom leaf powder is not something to get 'high' on. The amount of plant material you would need to consume would likely result in severe nausea/vomiting to get the effects just a few Vicoden in an opiate-naive individual. For people with opiate tolerances, it merely helps keep them out of W/D and detox or use it as a maintenance supplement. Compared to Big Pharma's maintenance drug, Subutex/Suboxone, Kratom is benign... Subs being 50x as strong as Morphine, snort-able/inject-able, W/Ds being worse than Heroin (a Sub addicted individual looking at weeks of acute W/D/... a hardcore IV Heroin user only looking at a single week and that is rare, 3-4 days being the norm), and providing an intense high to users who are not too addicted to opiates/Subs. So, if you hear anything in the news about Kratom being 'Legal Heroin' then change the channel. Chances are that the 'expert' the journalist will interview runs a rehab/clinic that gets people onto Subs. So, thank you for reading this, and please educate anyone who tries to tell you about the evils of Kratom... it is about as evil as coffee. It has gotten a bad rap thanks to some a-holes in Europe lacing it with a pharmaceutical opiate and selling it; resulting in deaths from the pharmaceutical adulterant and not the Kratom. Kratom is not strong enough to cause an overdose, since its use dating back to ancient times, there are zero fatalities attributed to it. I feel like I opened a can of worms mentioning the Kratom... and feel it is my job to explain that they're just worms; not rattlesnakes.
Quincy, thank you again for the legal advice. I'm hoping my former boss will put the company lawyer on the case for me.
I apologize to everyone for my rudeness, and thank those of you that took the time to give me real legal advice.