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To: Yasuda. Erica; Woodward. Carrie; E-Comments
Subject: New eComment for Regular Meeting of the City Council/Special Closed Session-5:30 pm/Regular Meeting-6:00 pm
Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2025 5:10:43 PM
City of Tustin. CA
New eComment for Regular Meeting of the City
Council/Special Closed Session-5:30 pm/Regular
Meeting-6:00 pm
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Meeting: Regular Meeting of the City Council/Special Closed Session-5:30 pm/Regular Meeting-
6:00 pm
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CHAPTER 10 TO ARTICLE 6 OF THE TUSTIN CITY CODE PROHIBITING THE SALE OF
KRATOM PRODUCTS Adoption of Ordinance No. 1571 would ban the sale, distribution, and
advertisement for sale of any product containing any part of the leaf of the plant Mitragyna
speciosa (more commonly known as the kratom plant). The purpose of the ordinance is to
protect the public health and welfare against the sale and distribution of products which the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration has identified as having opioid-like characteristics, and which
pose a threat to the health and safety of the American Public.
eComment: Kratom has literally saved my life and given me the hope that I had lost due to the
opioid epidemic and my medical history, losing the pain meds, because of the new opioid laws
and the inhumane new rules that no longer permitted patients such as myself and millions of
others who were also cut off from the opioid medications due to the illegal selling of opioids by
the illegitimate sales of the medications, the illegal prescriptions that were given to those who
absolutely didn't need them, but they were obtaining them in order to sell them to those who
were trying to make a lot of money by selling them to those who were either addicted to illicit
drugs or those who were now desperate because they had been cut off of the medications that
they had Legitimate reasons for taking them and had been given Legitimate prescriptions for
years, sometimes decades by doctors for Legitimate reasons. I was injured when I had just
turned 16. 1 had a short leg cast put on too tight and it killed the nerves and cut off the
circulation. The cast was only on for 4 days, but that was over 3 days too long. After that first
week we were told that I was going to end up losing my leg, but I said that that wasn't going to
happen! I was wrong! The top specialists had tried to save my leg for 10 years. Doing
experimental surgeries and procedures, doing procedures that at the time were considered to be
the correct procedures, surgeries and the proper treatments, but now we know that those only
made the situation worse and made the nerve damage spread throughout my body, and the 10
years that my leg remained on, only helped to spread the infections, pulmonary embolisms,
sepsis, gangrene, deep vein thrombosis,and allowed the osteomyelitis to find a place to hide in
my system. It doesn't take much of an injury, a simple bruising to a bone, or just a bruise to
anywhere and it leads to another bout of osteomyelitis ( bone infection). I have been legally dead
several times and on my deathbed several other times. I have full body CRPS with organ
involvement, optical, occipital and trigeminal Neuralgia, multiple organ failure, and I have had
more than 240 surgeries and procedures. I wasn't supposed to live to be 30, but here I am after
a very difficult 30 years beyond that age, several near death escapes, and I just turned 62. I
have had amputations, pulmonary embolisms, sepsis, gangrene, 17 bouts of osteomyelitis For
over 15 years I was bedridden and unable to care for myself. Everything had to be done for me,
and it included in home nursing care for the PICC Iines..My daughter has lived with this her
entire life. My grandkids have as well! James, my partner has been subjected to this the entire
time that he has known me and he's been an amazing, loving and caring man who has taken
very good care of me! He's been subjected to so very much! When opioids were removed from
the picture, even though I was diagnosed as a terminal patient, but because I wasn't a terminal
cancer patient- so I wouldn't be able to get through the worst known painful conditions that are
known to us, this is what I experience. Every single second of every single day. Every single
second of every minute. Every minute of every hour. Decade after Decade for the past 46
years.lt feels like I am being electrocuted from the inside out and that my tissues are being
seared together! Unfortunately I had reached the point where I felt that I was not able to take it
anymore and I was ready to take my own life. This has been very difficult to admit because I
have a beautiful daughter, and 3 beautiful grandchildren, and an amazing man that I love and he
loves me! I have so very much to live for! But each time something else happened, I could see
what my health was doing to them and every other person that I love , have loved; I was able to
see what it was doing to them, in their eyes. Each time I felt like I was being electrocuted, I felt
as if it was going through my body and directly into them. It wasn't only killing me, but it was
chasing everyone that I loved- right out of my life. After the first amputation, I spent most of my
younger years in college and then medical school. I thrived in college! I was so happy and I felt
better than I had in years! But when I was in college, I was in a extremely abusive marriage and I
was seriously injured,which made the damage spread through my upper arms and body. I ended
up taking a medical leave of absence, but I was very good at research,so when the word kratom
was introduced to me, I researched everything that I could find out about kratom! I WAS LESS
THAN A HALF HOUR AWAY FROM TAKING MY OWN LIFE!! SUCH A DIFFICULT THING TO
SAY!! I HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO LOSE, BUT EVERYTHING TO GAIN!
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