Kratom Legislation 2020
*LAST UPDATED 2/11/2020. This post will be updated throughout the year as kratom legislation develops With the new year comes new state legislative sessions. On the negative side, there are…
Bill to ban kratom to be considered by Maryland Judiciary Committee
Democratic State Senator Ronald Young has introduced SB147, a bill that would ban kratom in Maryland effective October 1, 2020. In a call to action surrounding a January 22 judiciary…
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HELP DREW TURNER VIA GOFUNDME HELP DREW TURNER VIA VENMO Drew Turner is the US Navy veteran who served in Iraq and appeared in the kratom documentary on Netflix, A…
Dr. Drew trashes chronic pain patients as “borderline druggies”
Last week on his podcast This Life You Live, celebrity addiction specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky called chronic pain patients "borderline druggies" for seeking medical treatment in the form of pain…
Kratom Science on the Pittsburgh Current Podcast
Last week I sat down with Bethany Ruhe for the podcast of Pittsburgh's independent alt-weekly, The Pittsburgh Current. https://youtu.be/nI-3yDw_Oos
CALL TO ACTION! Save Kratom in Naperville Illinois! We can all help
Last week on we interviewed Nina Ajdin for our Kratom Stories series. Right now where Nina lives in Naperville, Illinois, the city council is trying to ban kratom and make…
CDC Blames Even More Multiple-Drug Abuser Deaths on Kratom Than They Did Before
A Centers for Disease Control report released last week claimed 91 out of 152 unintentional drug overdose deaths where kratom was detected in the bloodstream involved kratom as the "cause…
URGENT! PA House Rep Wants to Ban Kratom in Pennsylvania
If you do nothing else, please find your representative in the PA State House and tell them you want to keep kratom legal! https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/findyourlegislator/ Pennsylvania State Representative Scott Conkin announces…
Banning Drugs is Anti-Science, Anti-Health, and Anti-Social
"Thankfully now, this is legal. The whole idea of Schedule 1, I think, is going to go away. How bizarre is that? That these molecules are 'evil'. Please, come on!"…
Kratom News: Federally Approved Substances Remain the Reason for a Vast Majority of Poison Control Center Calls
We've been seeing in the news again lately that poison control centers are receiving an increasing amount of calls about kratom. We've seen stories like this in 2016. CNN ran…