Hello, I'm a 65 year old. I have bone on bone in both knees. Approximately 10 years ago I became addicted to the oxycontin at my doctors had prescribed me I abused the pills for possibly as much as seven or eight years and was close to death. Neither the doctors nor the psychiatrists knew any type of medication to stop the cravings and I am almost died several times. I started reading on how to grow my own poppies to make my own opiate that's how bad I was then I saw a little flashing sign on the internet that said do you have a problem with opiates try kratom. After researching it for about 10 hours online I ordered some it came within 3 days and 3 days after I started taking it I had no more cravings I was cured for my opiate addiction I know it's hard to believe but I would testify it in court it works so well that I told other friends that I had been hanging around with because of this opiate addiction and a dozen of them started taking it and they all cleared their systems of the opiates. To me it's a miracle leaf it has so many properties to it that need to be understood it saved my life plain and simple this was over 10 years ago I take Kratom now to help with my pain roughly I'd say about 8 years. Another good thing about Kratom is it can't be abused if you take too much you go to sleep I know of nobody that abuses kratom because it's literally not doable. I urge you to can reconsider keeping kratom legal and available as people that have used it if you take it away from them or make it unavailable to people that need it you're opiate addiction problem is going to skyrocket in your area and you'll be responsible for that by making Kratom illegal don't fall for the fda's nonsense they're in cahoots with big pharmacy and care nothing about the people that are actually in need something to help with pain as now that the pharmacies have overloaded the country with opiates and now the government has made them illegal or almost impossible to get Kratom is a good fallback for people that need I'm 65 I'm not out on the corner partying with a beer in my hand I'm retired I work my entire life I work since I was 14 years old reconsider your decision on kratom thank you for listening Scott sandquist