Source: Toledo Blade
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About Gov. DeWine’s suggestions to crack down on kratom and 7-OH (a compound made from kratom), all I can say is: this is absurd. 7-OH is used by millions of Americans to help with chronic pain (I use it to help with pain from fibromyalgia). There have not been any indications of a public health crisis. The FDA’s own database, FAERS, shows 37 “incidents” of any kind, nationwide, in the entire history of 7-OH. If that’s dangerous, then coffee, energy drinks, and half the medicine aisle are next.
There’s no crisis here. There’s been no spike in ER visits. No flood of poison control calls. No sudden ramp-up of deaths. If this was the public health threat they claim, hospitals would be sounding the alarm. They’re not. The numbers don’t match the scare stories.
The real danger isn’t 7-OH. It’s a government that acts first and checks the facts later. Every time they’ve tried to ban their way to safety — alcohol, cannabis, you name it — the public ends up worse off, and the black market takes over.
If they can outlaw something that hasn’t proven to be unsafe based on nothing but bad assumptions, they can do the same to anything in your medicine cabinet.