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Showing Original Post only (View all)Please do not make Kratom a Schedule I Substance [View all]
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/please-do-not-make-kratom-schedule-i-substanceWE THE PEOPLE ASK THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO TELL US WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS DOING ABOUT AN ISSUE:
Please do not make Kratom a Schedule I Substance
Created by P.M. on August 30, 2016
30,478 SIGNED 100,000 GOAL
Schedule I drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.
This is not true for Kratom, it has been shown numerous times in reports from users to help recovering Opiate addicts, treat pain, combat depression and anxiety, and much more. Deaths that involve Kratom being a persons' system have always been from the result of mixing Kratom with other drugs, rather than Kratom alone. In states that banned Kratom, Alabama specifically, opiate usage and deaths went up after Kratom was banned in the state. Please stop the DEA from scheduling Kratom as Schedule I, there are many people who will suffer from this.
Sign Petition
Sources:
http://jaoa.org/article.aspx?articleid=2094342
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3670991/
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KICK. Please everybody sign this petition. This herb had helped so many people
jack_krass
Sep 2016
#7
Caffeine delivered by way of coffee is my addictive psychoactive drug of choice. nt
tblue37
Sep 2016
#15
Huge K&R - I've used Kratom myself, to help when I am backing down my pain med levels
Lucinda
Sep 2016
#19