To: To the Honorable Members of the NY State Legislature Regarding Bills A8670 and S6345

From: [Your Name]

​Kratom is a safe alternative to pharmaceutical drugs with important medicinal uses and has saved and changed lives.

We respectfully urge and plead you to vote against A8670 and S6345.

Kratom is not an opiate. It is a cousin of the coffee bean and a homeopathic and natural alternative to opioids. Kratom also helps with depression.

As you know, many lives are savagely ruined due to opiate drug abuse. Not only does Kratom naturally relieve even severe pain, it is recognized increasingly as a remedy for opioid withdrawal by individuals who self-treat chronic pain.

Kratom is an invaluable natural medication which allows thousands of people to live normal, productive lives while escaping the clutches of extremely addictive synthetic medications and all of the side effects which come along with them.

If people were to lose access to acquiring this medication in our home state of New York, there is no telling what detrimental effects this will have on their health, and the well-being of their families.

We urge you to please consider the thousands of patients and their families which will be negatively impacted if they are unable to acquire this medication. If people were to lose access to Kratom, their options going forward are to either succumb to debilitating pain which prevents them from performing their jobs, or to resume taking prescribed medications which destroy lives and have awful effects.

Kratom has freed countless people from the very well-known opiate epidemic in this country.

Kratom has saved so many from becoming another tragic statistic. Kratom has changed lives. Please vote against A8670 and S6345.

If you have questions about kratom, please visit http://www.americankratom.org/facts. Thank you for your time and service to the state.

Respectfully Yours,

A Concerned Voter