By Susan Ash Kratom Advocates: If you’ve had one of those days that starts with friends calling you with bad news, and the news just gets worse and worse as the day goes on – then that describes my day perfectly. On Friday of last…
By American Kratom Association The American Kratom Association (AKA) strongly condemns the recent actions taken by LegitScript and hosting providers to shut down the Internet domains of legitimate businesses who are selling safe kratom products to consumers in the United States. We have received reports…
By Susan Ash The American Kratom Association needs your help to protect kratom. Dear Kratom Supporters – The wave of support you’ve shown us over the last several months, as we at the American Kratom Association (AKA) fight to save kratom, has truly been amazing. …
By Brandon Turbeville ACTION ALERT!!!!!!!! Members of both the Florida House and Senate are moving forward in an attempt to ban Kratom at the state level. The House version is known as House Bill 183 and the Senate version is S.B. 424. What You Can…
By Susan Ash It was just months ago that we stormed Washington D.C., forcing the Drug Enforcement Administration DEA) to withdraw it’s emergency ban on kratom. We followed that with a literal tsunami of 23,210 comments to the DEA, including our own scientific 8-factor analysis…
By Andrew Pontbriand Nothing in recent memory measures up to the current opiate epidemic that is sweeping the United States and erasing an entire generation. If the US Kratom Ban that is being threatened takes effect, the current epidemic will reach catastrophic proportions. We are…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor A recent George Washington Study looked at opioid treatment and the rate of healing in chronic wounds. It turns out that chronic wound patients who never receive opioids actually heal up faster than those who receive the drugs according to researcher Victoria…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association has just asserted that a delayed U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration ban on the kratom plant would stifle scientific understanding of the herb’s active chemical components and documented pharmacologic properties – if it goes through. The…
By The American Kratom Association Thanksgiving is only a few days away. We wanted to let you know what the AKA is thankful for. We are thankful for the chance, hard fought, to keep our beloved plant legal. We are thankful for the friendships and…
By Brandon Turbeville When the DEA announced that it was backing off of its decision to go through emergency procedures to place kratom on the Schedule 1 list of controlled substances, kratom proponents all over the country rejoiced. This meant that the announcement of the…
By Brandon Turbeville In another small victory for kratom and kratom freedom, Denver, Colorado’s Department of Environmental Health has announced its plan to lift the ban on kratom in the city. The announcement comes only weeks after the DEH ordered stores all across the city…
By Cassius Kamarampi (Era of Wisdom) The kratom ban set to be in effect September 30th has been indefinitely delayed. The DEA is buckling for now, but it’s not quite over yet. This Era of Wisdom video explains: Explore the Fight to Keep Kratom Legal! ——————————————————————————————————————————————————…
By Brandon Turbeville ACTION ALERT!!!!! The DEA has recently made an emergency decision to place Kratom on the Schedule I list of controlled substances. Editor’s note: Here is everything you need to know about easy action steps to help stop the Kratom ban – just…
By Brandon Turbeville On September 12, the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness, an independent think tank and regulatory watchdog organization, wrote an open letter to the DEA regarding the notoriously corrupt and rights-crushing agency’s recent ban on kratom. In this letter, the CRE has made a…
By Jennifer Aldridge The “emergency” scheduling of M. Speciosa is a gross abuse of power. M. Speciosa is a mild herbal medicine, with fewer side effects than many prescribed medications, and greater effectiveness than those same chemicals. The tea may compete with the pharmaceutical makers…
By Support Mitra In three minutes, readers can get an idea of the origin and uses of kratom and what it means outside the U.S., too. This video was sent to us by the non-profit in response to a story we published by Morgan Joylighter, called…
By Era of Wisdom Tomorrow is the Kratom March on DC: September 13th. If you can’t make it to Washington DC, why not start your own movement locally? Any action at all will help; print out some articles or info about kratom, hand them out to…
By Anonymous My fundamental issue has always been that I was raised by physically and emotionally abusive parents in near-cult-like isolation. That compromised my social skills, ability to feel relaxed or safe in normal human circumstances, and baseline neurochemistry in regards to contentment, happiness, and…
By Adrian Smith-Madden I have joined the fight to save Kratom. I was addicted to Narcotic pain medications for almost 30 years. During that time I lost so much, including my beloved husband. I became a totally different person. I used to be happy, carefree…
By Cassius Kamarampi (Era of Wisdom) What is the true motivation behind the DEA’s decision to ban kratom? Could it be the fact that enormous swathes of researchers are trying to develop synthetic opioids, patentable, profitable drugs to replace such things as kratom or pharmaceutical painkillers?…
