The leading "Scientist" urging policymakers not to criminalize Kratom, a substance that has left a trail of death and addiction around the world, has routinely failed to disclose longstanding financial ties to the industry’s most powerful lobbying group, ProPublica has found. University of Florida professor Christopher McCurdy has accepted travel reimbursements, donations to his university’s foundation and funding for an annual symposium on research into the leaf’s medicinal potential from the American Kratom Association — none of which has been disclosed in his conflict of interest statements or on the papers he publishes. https://www.propublica.org/article/kratom-legalization-christopher-mccurdy-research-conflict-of-interest-aka?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=secondary #USA #ConflictOfInterest #Kartom #$$$