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Gov. DeWine orders Ohio pharmacy board to ban synthetic kratom immediately
Sarah Donaldson
The herbal extract from Asia has naturally occurring trace amounts of the alkaloids mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine, which in high doses have sedative effects.
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