After an article published by Ocala-News.com reported that Ocala Mayor Ben Marciano would like to remove kratom from local businesses, readers wrote in to share their opinions. Here are a couple of those letters:
“I’ve been taking kratom for 13 years. I’m 46 years old and it helps with arthritis. Better taking a plant capsule than being on medication. It’s in no way, shape, or form a gateway drug. If anything, people taking kratom will use drugs when they can’t take kratom. Just because something is sold in gas stations doesn’t make it a bad thing. Kratom has many uses and grows from the ground from God.” – Brian Weinhart, Ocala…