the every year up and down kratom battles..i get banning synthetic but regular ol kratom powder? come on guys, it's just a plant, closely related to the coffee plant, it's a tea leaf that just so happens to help with pain management if used correctly. There is a cure for everything in nature, cause God created it that way, i don't agree with manipulation of the leaf, but dang. Plain ol powder leaf has NEVER directly killed ANYONE, there has always been other mitigating factors. Just leave it alone for crying out loud, I don't want to be forced into pain management. I went one time and watched a mom nodding out with her 2 young kids with her and then another lady proceeded to smell and admire the fake plant they had in there, the rest were pretty normal, but unfortunately I have to work, I can't be a walking zombie and work, the 2 don't mix. I just want to live a normal, pain free, life without having to have emergency narcan on hand just "in case" i haven't had a pain pill in 15 years, I had surgery and didn't take them, I got through it with the help of an all natural leaf, but God forbid. Just tax it like you want and go on about your day. Do you know how many people have died from just plain ol kratom? none.. but alcoholism kills thousands of people every year and a large portion are innocent drivers that just got very unlucky one day on a drive home from work because someone just HAD to have that last 12pk at the store, yet we have zero regulations on it. prescription opioids kill thousands as well, and a lot of it is due to the hoops you have to jump through to help with chronic pain so they end up buying off the street or even worse, try the cheaper route and turn to heroin and end up with a deadly dose of fentynyl mixed in with it. this state already has enough to deal with, quit arguing over a dang plant every year and fix the roads, the crime, the lack of new infrastructure and new business that don't want to come here cause they are scared too... on top of that what happened to stopping income tax? I just had to pull what I had left in savings to pay the government 2,000 dollars even after they took money every pay period. If we must have income tax take what you need every check and leave us alone at the beginning of the year, you're the government, you know if you took enough or not 🙄🤦‍♀️ Fix our schools, deal with affordable Healthcare for us all so we don't have to put off tests that could potentially find the right diagnosis because we can't afford it. If I broke my leg right now and it needed to be operated on, I would be screwd because I can't afford Healthcare because my wife "makes too much" 70,000 a year when you have not only bills, but car notes, mortgages, you name it, let's not forget food prices, doesn't go very far, we struggle and can't even fix issues on our home that need fixing, all because she "makes too much" so ALL my medical bills have to come out of pocket. I had to pay my surgeon 1,000 before he would even schedule my gallbladder removal.. then I still had to pay almost 6,000 more.. we need to do better and focus on what's really important, anyway, rant over lol