In mid-July, the press widely reported that several people had died after jumping off boats moving at high speeds, a stunt supposedly inspired by viral videos that originated on the social media app TikTok.

The American Kratom Association (“AKA”) welcomes the action taken by the American Medical Association (”AMA”) House of Delegates in their 2023 meeting that rejected the extreme recommendations of the Mississippi Medical Association that called for a complete ban on all over-the-counter sales of kratom products in the United States.

If you Google “vaping,” you will run headfirst into a long list of misleading and even dishonest results. “Research suggests vaping is bad for your heart and lungs,” the first result from Johns Hopkins University declares.

Recent action by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) to initiate a seizure action on kratom products manufactured and marketed by Botanic Tonics based on “serious safety concerns” by the FDA is directly contradicted by a substantial body of current evidence and data on the safety and addiction profile of kratom.

The anti-vaping crusade has produced awful science and dishonest, vitriolic attacks on a nascent industry that is helping millions of people quit smoking. Case in point: the authors of a November 2022 study accused vaping company JUUL of altering the menthol content of one of its products to skirt Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation.