well they have to start somewhere, bringing new medical drugs to market is a decade long projectand even worse it has to be profitable even if it works to make it to production
I searched clinicaltrials.gov for geraniol and there is sadly nothing
I'll have to try to email the researchers to see what they are up to next
Maybe geraniol can be extracted from other plants that are not on any federal drug schedules, that would change everything and allow it to be marketed as a food supplement which would effectively not have any regulation at all
ps. chatgpt says Geraniol is abundant in rose oil, palmarosa oil, citronella oil, and lemongrass oil
which gives other legal OTC options
it also points out they used a MASSIVE dose in the mice to get just a few hours of pain relief
there is also a legally prescribed medication called Istradefylline that does the same thing as Geraniol
pps. ChatGPT also says Palmitoylethanolamide is likely far more effective than Geraniol (and Palmitoylethanolamide is already legal as OTC supplement)