To: The Alabama State House, The Alabama State Senate, Governor Kay Ivey, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate

Join The Kratom Coalition For Those Suffering

Please help Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Indiana, Vermont, Wisconsin, Louisiana, and Illinois make kratom legal! It saves lives!

Why is this important?

Several states, so far, have banned kratom by putting its active ingredients on the controlled substance list. Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Vermont, Indiana, and Wisconsin have banned the active ingredients in kratom. Illinois and Louisiana have banned the substance altogether. Kratom has saved the lives of many people.
Kratom is not an illicit 'drug' nor is the act of its use illicit. Its main active ingredients are the alkaloids mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine, and there is evidence that these have analgesic effects without producing a 'high'.
The body of this argument will be found in the testimony by the commenters attached to this petition, so I conclude with this:
Kratom saves lives. There are people who suffer fibromyalgia, lupus, CRPS, MS, epilepsy, IBS, Crohn's Disease, Endometriosis, Chronic pain, Sjogrens, and those recovering and rebuilding their lives from illicit drug use. These same people cannot get doctors to help them. Several patients with these illnesses are turned away from doctors, whether because the doctors did not know how to treat them or the DEA shut these doctors down for treating their patients' pain with the only medication that is available in the kratom-illegal states: opioids. This has to stop!
Please make Kratom legal in the 'illegal' states! Please keep kratom legal in all U.S. states.