DEA to place Mitragyna speciosa (Kratom) and its active alkaloids mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine into Schedule I on 30. September 2016

https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2016-20803.pdf

I'm panicking guys. This plant is the only thing allowing me to work and function properly in this shitty part of my life. My depression/anxiety will ruin me. I REFUSE to go on benzos or any other prescription! Please sign the petition no matter how futile it seems. https://wh.gov/iLACs


Comments


[44 Points] Thinkingafrica:

Has anyone here ever met someone who works for the DEA? I have because I am involved in drug addiction treatment. THEY ARE IDIOTS!!! I have met DEA agents who (truly) believed you could die from marijuana. That you could get hooked to lsd after one tab. Who believed that cocaine made people invincible. These are cruel, cruel idiots who want to harm others for sport.


[25 Points] Lucid_Enemy:

That is DUMB Jesus this is the worst news I've heard


[16 Points] Anndddyyyy:

Most people I've known over the years who took kratom used it to step down from heroin or oxy's - not the other way around. It literally saves lives. This is right on par with banning suboxone or narcan in my mind.


[18 Points] C4pital_S7eez:

Just fucking unbelievable. My dad has been waiting to get back surgery for months and has been in quite some pain. He's been taking painkillers but wasn't too thrilled about it because he has an addictive personality. I gave him some kratom and he says it definitely works and would prefer it over painkillers.

So thanks DEA, for fucking over those who use kratom responsibly for either pain relief or weaning off opioids. You guys will go pat yourselves on the back for thinking you're helping out and being tough on drugs but the reality is much different.


[10 Points] NotTRYINGtobeLame:

So they have time to dick around with that, but they can't find it in them to reschedule cannabis. Nice job, America.


[10 Points] SilntNfrno:

wow, what a stupid fucking decision. Schedule I? Seriously? The DEA is run by god damn morons. Pretty soon Melatonin will be Schedule I because people are "abusing it to sleep." This decision literally kills a good number of people, as many have been successful in using Kratom to get off of real opiates. This is really the dumbest fucking decision I've ever seen.


[6 Points] Joe_Black_:

Does this mean people looking for kratom will have to resort to DNM's?


[4 Points] Stoned3y3Codon3:

Oh Fuck time to stock up


[5 Points] Nano-Bunny:

Well I'm fucked... Great.

Edit:

Really this is just going to fuck people like me. People that managed to stop buying opiates from illegal sources after the DEA's big kick in the past year or two to strong arm doctors into giving out less meds. Only reason I ever purchased that shit is because my Rx (that I had been on for 5+years) got cut into 1/3 of what it had been. Now the thing that helped me stop buying more, and made my daily life manageable, is now gone.

Fuck this shit.


[4 Points] tailsuser2:

Sign the petition!!

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov//petition/please-do-not-make-kratom-schedule-i-substance


[3 Points] None:

WTF???


[3 Points] Clix828:

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What is this?


[3 Points] None:

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCKKKKKK YOOOUUUUUUU


[3 Points] None:

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What is this?


[3 Points] FunnyTrips:

DEA - keeping the underground dope economy thriving for decades and counting. Whoever calls the shots there needs to be taken out of power and replaced with someone born after 1980. Every time I remember my weed is schedule 1 - I can't help but giggle to myself that if it weren't for the alphabet boys, the price of pot would drop 50% - if they believe they can even dent the demand for all drugs - they're wasting their time.

Every single action taken by the DEA has a negative repercussion. Pot schedule 1? Ok buddy, $400 a zip. Let's make more incentive to grow.... Kratom helps people kick opiates? Ban it so doctors get the money instead!

Idiots - we will never stop until we are free. Never. Every month that passes the DNMs are still thriving is more proof who is winning the fight

How did we get to the point where the DEA both writes and enforces the laws????


[2 Points] None:

That shit makes me constipated as hell for such a mild high.


[2 Points] vaporizehellaweed:

The DEA employees so many people that's why they make these asinine decisions. That's why weed still isn't legal federally and won't be until congress steps in and says enough is enough.

Imagine if weed was all of a sudden legalized or just resceduled....think about all the loss of funding for marijuana accross the nation. There are local, federal, and state task forces dedicated to only marijuana. The rescheduling ruling this year has nothing to do with the facts, it has to do with LE jobs. They take care of their own and that's all there is to it

Kratom being a schedule one, that shit doesn't have addictive potential, it isn't dangerous, and it does have accepted medical value. Another example of beauracracy at its finest.

When one LE agency has this much power, more power than the FDA (the ones that should be making these scheduling rulings) there is no check and balance. They literally can and do whatever the fuck they want.


[1 Points] Wamboz:

Time for me to stock up


[1 Points] MormonUnd3rwear:

why wont you go on an ssri or benzos? just wondering


[1 Points] Clix828:

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What is this?


[1 Points] 4-MAR:

https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2016/08/31/2016-20803/schedules-of-controlled-substances-temporary-placement-of-mitragynine-and-7-hydroxymitragynine-into

People using tor tend not to download PDF files, especially when HTML files are available.


[1 Points] tmithrowawayurine:

So how much is considered a felony quantity once this is scheduled? Do they expect everyone who has it to throw it away? This is such bad news.