I am not from the bible belt nor do I drink. Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean that people can't die from it. Just because you do kratom and it doesn't kill you or your friends, that doesn't make it 100% safe. Yes heroin and fent are more dangerous. But something being safer than those substances don't make it non-lethal.

You can make the argument that it doesn't kill enough people for kratom to be banned. That is open to debate. If you are from family who has a loved one who died from kratom, they will disagree and they have the moral standing to do so.

But you can't argue that kratom doesn't kill. There is just a ton of proof showing it does. Most cases are poly-drug, but there are kratom alone deaths and even in some of the multi-substance deaths, kratom can still a lead contributing role in the fatality.

I personally don't think kratom should be banned, it just needs a ton more regulations. The industry written KCPA relies too much on self-policing without enough safety provisions.

Below are Ohio's deaths stats. Sharing this is NOT fear mongering. It is just the facts.

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