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Rhode Island House Bill 5565 aims to regulate kratom products, banning synthetic versions while permitting natural kratom.

The author argues that synthetic kratom analogs, not natural kratom, pose the real danger to consumers.

The FDA has not definitively declared kratom dangerous, and research suggests it is well-tolerated at various doses.

As chair of the International Plant and Herbal Alliance who owes her quality of life to kratom, I must respond to the misleading claims made in the May 31 Providence Journal opinion piece opposing House Bill 5565 .

The scientific and medical communities are increasingly aligned on this essential point: the real danger in the kratom marketplace is not natural kratom or its traditionally used extracts, but the

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