Editorial policy

Sourcing

Every article on this site cites its sources, and the sources are listed at the foot of the page so you can check them yourself. This is enforced technically, not just editorially: an article without at least one primary source will not build.

For legal and health claims we cite primary sources only:

• Legislation, statutory instruments and official government registers
• Regulator publications: the US Federal Register, DEA and FDA notices, the EU Drugs Agency (EUDA), national health ministries
• Peer-reviewed research, cited to the paper rather than to coverage of it
• Court judgments

We do not source legal or health claims from other kratom websites, vendor blogs, or content farms. Much of what circulates about kratom online is recycled from marketing copy, and repeating it launders it.

How we use AI

We use AI (Claude) to research and draft. This is stated plainly because you deserve to know how the thing you are reading was made, and because we think the alternative, quietly generating health content at volume and hoping nobody notices, is precisely what has made so much of this subject untrustworthy.

What that means in practice: a human editor verifies every legal and health claim against its primary source before publication. Not skims it. Checks it. The AI does not publish; it drafts, and a person is accountable for what goes out. If we cannot verify a claim, it does not run.

AI and images

We also sometimes use AI to make an illustration. Where we do, it says so directly underneath the picture, names the model that produced it, and quotes the prompt we gave it. You never have to guess whether something here was photographed or generated.

Three limits, and they are built into the site rather than merely promised:

• A generated image can only show a plant, a place or an object. It cannot be used for a document, a chart or a diagram. Those carry the weight of evidence, and a generated one would be a fabricated exhibit on a site whose entire argument is that its claims can be checked. An article that tries to publish a synthetic chart does not build.
• No generated people, presented as real people.
• Never a photograph of our editor, stock or generated. The byline is a pen name, which is privacy. A fabricated portrait would be something else entirely.

Every image on the site, generated or not, is listed with its author and licence on the image credits page.

What we will not publish

• Medical advice. We are not clinicians. We report what the evidence says and where it is thin, which for kratom is most places.
• Encouragement to use. We write about effects, dosing and risk in a harm-reduction frame, giving accurate information to people who are going to make their own decisions. We do not write "how to get the most out of your kratom."
• Vendor recommendations. See our conflict-of-interest disclosure.
• Legal advice, or workarounds for prohibition. Where kratom is banned, we report that it is banned. We will not tell you how to get it anyway.
• Health claims we cannot source. Kratom is surrounded by confident assertions with nothing underneath them, from both its promoters and its opponents. We would rather say "we don't know" than pick a side.

Legal status pages

Drug law changes quickly, and a stale legal page is worse than no page at all, because someone could act on it. Every legal page carries a last-verified date, and we re-check them on a schedule rather than when we happen to remember. If a page looks out of date to you, tell us.

Corrections

We will get things wrong. When we do, we fix the article, note what changed and when, and log it publicly on our corrections page. We do not silently edit.

To flag an error, write to editorial@wikikratom.com with the article and the specific claim. Corrections from readers who disagree with us are still corrections; we care whether the claim is right, not whether it is convenient.

Independence

We run no advertising, sell nothing, and have never taken money from a kratom vendor for coverage. The publication is funded by K-EYE B.V., which also owns a European kratom retailer. We disclose that relationship in full, and it is the reason we do not cover vendors at all.