Steve Robinson

But they've got some of these, I don't know if they're technically filed as 501c3 groups or if they're just websites or organizations, but there is a concerted PR effort being funded with some of this money to represent 7-OH as a medical cure to the fentanyl epidemic.

Um, they want, and you know, instead of, instead of consuming the fentanyl that's being trafficked over the border or, you know, pill pressed, uh, with Chinese precursors at super labs in Canada, they want you taking their products instead.

Um, and you know, I've, I don't know personally people who have gone down the Kratom or seven OH, uh, path as a means of recovery from heroin or fentanyl.

Um, I've heard, uh,

from other people about that being used as an approach and it never ends with a full recovery from substances generally it's more of a you're you're switching uh the person you're buying your substances from you're switching substances is there anybody against this in government uh

I don't know that there's enough education.

I don't know that they know.

Again, if you poll US senators and ask them if they know about it, I doubt that they know about this.

And it gets back to the question that Matt Gaetz asked, is how many people have died about it?

How many bodies need to stack up before it rises to the level of concern for a United States senator?

I don't know.

But this, I think, I guess one of the reasons why I'm happy for the opportunity to talk with you about it is because we are at a point where we're really early with the development of this product and can tell people about it.

And we don't have to be where we were with the prescription opioid epidemic where you had

millions, tens of millions of people who had a doctor give them a prescription and they wound up addicted to it.

And they went from taking a product that a licensed medical doctor provided to them to out on the street looking for heroin to get their dope sickness to go away.

So we're still very early to it.

I would suspect that there are some politicians who are in the medical world who would understand the inherent danger of a product that acts on your opioid receptors.

Like that's a code word for drug users, for sure, but it's also a very real, I guess,

medical reality that those substances in those 70H tabs are going to tickle the same parts of your brain that fentanyl or morphine or Percocet would.

And they're going to create in you that same sensation.