PSCJR20250820 Public Safety & Criminal Justice Reform Committee Meeting:
§ Quarterly reports, changes or updates that pertain to the offices of Public Safety
§ Banning the sale of Kratom in the City of Toledo
I have seen kratom help recovering addicts replace their addiction with a plant that helps them become functional members of society and some of those people are my family. I have used it often to help with chronic pain. None of us have once went through withdrawals, side effects or anything else bad that can come with other meds. My question to you is why replace something natural with some manmade medicine? We already having it growing here on earth, so if it helps why not use it?
I have been using kratom for years for various health conditions . As well as grief associated with the passing of my grandmother . I use it for chronich pain instead of highly addictive pain killers that were once perscribed to me . I was also addicted to heroin and methamphetamine both of which i have not used in 8 years since i discovered kratom . I use it to help with anxiety and depression associated with ptsd . . I think a kratom consumer protection act is better than a ban
Kratom saved my life. I've been clean from pain meds, heroin, etc. for 10 years now and only take kratom and cbd. I am able to safely mange my pain without destroying my life. Kratom has been used for centuries safely. Its completely takes away my desre to use drugs and alcohol. I have genuinely never been this happy, health and successful in my life. Whole leaf/ground up kratom is a safe and effetive wellness and hard reduction tool. Banning it will cause more death from fentanyl. Regulatation!
Neither kratom nor 7-OH should be banned. Millions of pain patients abandoned by doctors rely on them for relief and a chance at a normal life. People in recovery also use them to escape opioids without being stuck on Suboxone, which can cause withdrawals lasting months, often worse than the drugs they replaced. There is no public health crisis from kratom or 7-OH. Taking away this harm reduction tool will only cause more harm to those using it responsibly.
Kratom and 7oh are safe, life saving medications. As partial agonists, they do not cause respiratory depression. After 500 million doses taken in the US, there have only been 2 adverse recorded events. These substances are remarkably safe and banning them would have devastating consequences for harm reduction efforts, and overdose deaths would increase. Please, please look at the actual science and do not give in to fear. Kratom and its alkaloids FIGHT the opioid epidemic.
I would like to share my quick story about how after a car accident I became addicted to hydrocodone for 3 years until I found Kratom and since then 25 years now I haven't touched a painkiller. I have also been sober for 11 years. There are far worse off people than I where if Kratom were to be banned it would seriously affect their livelihoods and they would very possibly end up dead with no other safe choices for them. please dont ban kratom. Allow it to remain safe and legal.
Please leave the kratom leaf alone. I suffer with multi levels of spinal cord injuries and kratom tea helps me to manage my pain better than any of the Dr prescribed medicine I used to get.I suffer enough please don't take the only thing that helps away.
Prohibition doesn't work it just makes the black market bigger and more dangerous for more people. I suffer with severe chronic pain & with the help of pure unadulterated Kratom tea I have a quality of life that I couldn't even dream possible with my Dr prescribed medications. Please follow the science and don't ban Kratom
Kratom has saved millions. Banning it would be a black market disaster. Please #KeepKratomLegal. It's just a leaf offering hope for so many in Ohio and in America.
Kratom and 7-oh are safe and effective ways to treat pain that drugs such as NSAIDS cannot touch. They can be habit-forming, but they are not deadly like opioids. Kratom products help keep opioid deaths down in states where they are legal. Banning kratom products will only cause a boon for the black market, increase OD rates, and make otherwise productive and peaceful citizens criminals. People just need to be educated on the products before consuming, and an age limit needs to be added.
Lot of people depend on this plant as they're only option to deal with excruciating pain in there life . Banning kratom will only raise the crime rate.where legalizing and regulation will increase the community's safety and pain management.
A ban is the wrong way to go a age verification and only vetted sources is whats needed,and removing that gas station crap too just like when the bad vape juice was going around,a ban would make honest people criminals
I am 43 yrs old. Productive member society. Business owner. I take kratom for my various body aches and helps with my anxiety and depression. I was devastated reading your trying to ban something that helps my quality of life so much. I urge you to reconsider something that helps so many people.
I oppose banning kratom in Toledo. As a responsible 7-OH and leaf user, it provides safe, effective relief for chronic pain when other treatments fail. FDA data shows no confirmed deaths from 7-OH alone, despite millions of uses. A ban will drive people back to heroin and fentanyl, fueling overdoses. Instead of prohibition, Toledo should pursue harm reduction, labeling standards, and responsible regulation to protect public safety, preserve personal autonomy, and prevent needless suffering.
I'm Sherry Owings, a 62 years young business owner. I have Scoliosis and 6 buldgin disk in my neck. Natural leaf kratom helps my pain without the high-druggie feeling of pain medication. I have been taking it 7+ years and I am off of 26 different medications. Please keep kratom legal.
To ban the sale or in a larger respect move kratom or forms of it to a schedule 1 brings the same problems we've seen in the past. Drs. Walter Prozialeck and Darshan Singh have described a ban in this manner,.
"A potential problem is that a move of kratom or its constituents to Schedule I will make it much more difficult for researchers to conduct necessary research."
Source:
Kratom policy: The challenge of balancing therapeutic potential with public safety
In 2005 I was diagnosed with Transverse Myelitis after waking up paralyzed, beginning my life with chronic pain. When prescriptions were no longer an option, I was left to suffer, until discovering whole leaf kratom in 2019. For 6 years it’s given me relief no medication ever has, allowing me to live, be a mom, and function again. It’s vital to distinguish natural kratom leaf from synthetic 7OH products, which are chemically altered and not the same.
The natural kratom is safe and effective, the danger is the synthetic called 7hydroxmitragynine that labs cook up and is a pure synthetic if you research youll see how dangerous and highly addictive it is, this synthetic put me in the hospital it also caused me to suffer crippling opiod withdrawls , it also nearly ruined my life, please keep natural kratom legal and ban the synthetic artificial kratom called 7hydroxmitragynine or 7ohm.
I’m Dr. Heidi Sykora, retired Nurse Practitioner, living with Chiari Malformation, tethered cord, Ehlers-Danlos, osteoporosis, and more. Kratom eases my pain enough to stay active, prevent injuries, and enjoy my grandchildren. The natural kratom plant doesn't cause cognitive impairment like pharmaceuticals. It improves my focus, balance, and sleep without side effects in 6+ years. I support the Kratom Consumer Protection Act to ensure safe, quality access for adults.
I have seen kratom help recovering addicts replace their addiction with a plant that helps them become functional members of society and some of those people are my family. I have used it often to help with chronic pain. None of us have once went through withdrawals, side effects or anything else bad that can come with other meds. My question to you is why replace something natural with some manmade medicine? We already having it growing here on earth, so if it helps why not use it?
I have been using kratom for years for various health conditions . As well as grief associated with the passing of my grandmother . I use it for chronich pain instead of highly addictive pain killers that were once perscribed to me . I was also addicted to heroin and methamphetamine both of which i have not used in 8 years since i discovered kratom . I use it to help with anxiety and depression associated with ptsd . . I think a kratom consumer protection act is better than a ban
Kratom saved my life. I've been clean from pain meds, heroin, etc. for 10 years now and only take kratom and cbd. I am able to safely mange my pain without destroying my life. Kratom has been used for centuries safely. Its completely takes away my desre to use drugs and alcohol. I have genuinely never been this happy, health and successful in my life. Whole leaf/ground up kratom is a safe and effetive wellness and hard reduction tool. Banning it will cause more death from fentanyl. Regulatation!
Neither kratom nor 7-OH should be banned. Millions of pain patients abandoned by doctors rely on them for relief and a chance at a normal life. People in recovery also use them to escape opioids without being stuck on Suboxone, which can cause withdrawals lasting months, often worse than the drugs they replaced. There is no public health crisis from kratom or 7-OH. Taking away this harm reduction tool will only cause more harm to those using it responsibly.
Kratom and 7oh are safe, life saving medications. As partial agonists, they do not cause respiratory depression. After 500 million doses taken in the US, there have only been 2 adverse recorded events. These substances are remarkably safe and banning them would have devastating consequences for harm reduction efforts, and overdose deaths would increase. Please, please look at the actual science and do not give in to fear. Kratom and its alkaloids FIGHT the opioid epidemic.
I would like to share my quick story about how after a car accident I became addicted to hydrocodone for 3 years until I found Kratom and since then 25 years now I haven't touched a painkiller. I have also been sober for 11 years. There are far worse off people than I where if Kratom were to be banned it would seriously affect their livelihoods and they would very possibly end up dead with no other safe choices for them. please dont ban kratom. Allow it to remain safe and legal.
Please leave the kratom leaf alone. I suffer with multi levels of spinal cord injuries and kratom tea helps me to manage my pain better than any of the Dr prescribed medicine I used to get.I suffer enough please don't take the only thing that helps away.
Completely banning Kratom is just going to cause more issues with fentanyl on the streets.
Prohibition doesn't work it just makes the black market bigger and more dangerous for more people. I suffer with severe chronic pain & with the help of pure unadulterated Kratom tea I have a quality of life that I couldn't even dream possible with my Dr prescribed medications. Please follow the science and don't ban Kratom
Kratom has saved millions. Banning it would be a black market disaster. Please #KeepKratomLegal. It's just a leaf offering hope for so many in Ohio and in America.
Kratom and 7-oh are safe and effective ways to treat pain that drugs such as NSAIDS cannot touch. They can be habit-forming, but they are not deadly like opioids. Kratom products help keep opioid deaths down in states where they are legal. Banning kratom products will only cause a boon for the black market, increase OD rates, and make otherwise productive and peaceful citizens criminals. People just need to be educated on the products before consuming, and an age limit needs to be added.
Lot of people depend on this plant as they're only option to deal with excruciating pain in there life . Banning kratom will only raise the crime rate.where legalizing and regulation will increase the community's safety and pain management.
A ban is the wrong way to go a age verification and only vetted sources is whats needed,and removing that gas station crap too just like when the bad vape juice was going around,a ban would make honest people criminals
I am 43 yrs old. Productive member society. Business owner. I take kratom for my various body aches and helps with my anxiety and depression. I was devastated reading your trying to ban something that helps my quality of life so much. I urge you to reconsider something that helps so many people.
I oppose banning kratom in Toledo. As a responsible 7-OH and leaf user, it provides safe, effective relief for chronic pain when other treatments fail. FDA data shows no confirmed deaths from 7-OH alone, despite millions of uses. A ban will drive people back to heroin and fentanyl, fueling overdoses. Instead of prohibition, Toledo should pursue harm reduction, labeling standards, and responsible regulation to protect public safety, preserve personal autonomy, and prevent needless suffering.
I'm Sherry Owings, a 62 years young business owner. I have Scoliosis and 6 buldgin disk in my neck. Natural leaf kratom helps my pain without the high-druggie feeling of pain medication. I have been taking it 7+ years and I am off of 26 different medications. Please keep kratom legal.
To ban the sale or in a larger respect move kratom or forms of it to a schedule 1 brings the same problems we've seen in the past. Drs. Walter Prozialeck and Darshan Singh have described a ban in this manner,.
"A potential problem is that a move of kratom or its constituents to Schedule I will make it much more difficult for researchers to conduct necessary research."
Source:
Kratom policy: The challenge of balancing therapeutic potential with public safety
In 2005 I was diagnosed with Transverse Myelitis after waking up paralyzed, beginning my life with chronic pain. When prescriptions were no longer an option, I was left to suffer, until discovering whole leaf kratom in 2019. For 6 years it’s given me relief no medication ever has, allowing me to live, be a mom, and function again. It’s vital to distinguish natural kratom leaf from synthetic 7OH products, which are chemically altered and not the same.
The natural kratom is safe and effective, the danger is the synthetic called 7hydroxmitragynine that labs cook up and is a pure synthetic if you research youll see how dangerous and highly addictive it is, this synthetic put me in the hospital it also caused me to suffer crippling opiod withdrawls , it also nearly ruined my life, please keep natural kratom legal and ban the synthetic artificial kratom called 7hydroxmitragynine or 7ohm.
I’m Dr. Heidi Sykora, retired Nurse Practitioner, living with Chiari Malformation, tethered cord, Ehlers-Danlos, osteoporosis, and more. Kratom eases my pain enough to stay active, prevent injuries, and enjoy my grandchildren. The natural kratom plant doesn't cause cognitive impairment like pharmaceuticals. It improves my focus, balance, and sleep without side effects in 6+ years. I support the Kratom Consumer Protection Act to ensure safe, quality access for adults.