By Wes Annac, Editor-in-Chief, Culture of Awareness & Openhearted Rebel
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If you’ve been keeping up with alternative media outlets the past couple weeks, you probably know that the DEA just classified kratom, a tropical deciduous tree with leaves used for various medicinal purposes (1), a Schedule 1 substance.
This puts it in the same class as heroin (2).
Vendors are already struggling to import it, and some have gone into hiding (2).
Kratom has been called a lifesaver for sufferers of mental or physical conditions made worse by pharmaceutical drugs.
Despite this (and despite the harms caused by opiates), the scandal-ridden DEA has set its sights on fighting yet another helpful natural substance proven to work better for the treatment of various conditions than its pharmaceutical counterparts.