😷nio> December 11, 2025: (COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Following a pause to review potential federal action, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced today that he is requesting the Ohio Board of Pharmacy to immediately designate all synthetic kratom compounds and other dangerous compounds derived from the active ingredient in Kratom as illegal drugs through emergency rule. The Governor is also asking the Board of Pharmacy to pursue rules through the regular rulemaking process for scheduling mitragynine (natural kratom).
via governor.ohio.gov: [Governor DeWine Updates Request to Board of Pharmacy to Schedule Kratom Compounds as Illegal Drugs](https://governor.ohio.gov/media/news-and-media/governor-dewine-updates-request-to-board-of-pharmacy-to-schedule-kratom-compounds-as-illegal-drugs)
> Feb 12, 2026: At the request of Gov. Mike DeWine, the Ohio Board of Pharmacy recently enacted an emergency rule banning the distribution, possession, and sale of kratom-related products in the name of public health. In practice, however, the rule is more likely to endanger public health than protect it.
> Unfortunately, decades of experience with the failed “war on drugs” demonstrates that such bans rarely work. Instead, bans tend to push drug use underground, creating black markets and making drugs more dangerous – not to mention criminalizing users.
archive.ph: [OPINION: Banning kratom-related products will make Ohio’s drug problem worse](https://archive.ph/WvHr1) via: [Dayton Daily News](https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/opinion-banning-kratom-related-products-will-make-ohios-drug-problem-worse/TXBUHGHYHZE7DO6MGKDQT2M6RY/)
PSA: prohibition is racist, classist, and bad. May I suggest that the suicide hotline included in the letterhead is partly an indication drug prohibitions are not going well, thus far? And we do not need more of them?
Steve Dustcircle 🌹
Columbus - Feeds
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