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I wonder if the kratom community should have gotten infront of this. If you think the DEA is going to come down with the Emergency Schedule 1 hammer, then maybe it'd be better to take action to make it become Schedule 4 or 5. First impressions are important, if your group is the first one to talk to congress then you can control the narrative.

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Best of luck confronting the full force of the producers of caffeinated anything. Coffee, tea, soda, energy drinks. We could probably throw a handful of the pharmaceutical giants in there for good measure.

Qui bono?

We are mobilizing. We have email and phone call campaigns going, and the petition (which may be more useful than other petitions people have seen since it qualifies under the third condition under which this decision can be fought by the DEA). There is a national march in Washington DC on the 13th. We are trying.

Thanks for the work! But I meant, get infront of this by advocating Kratom for schedule IV or V several years ago. Sorry, I'm being an armchair activist.

No, you're exactly right. We were a silent majority for all of these years, when we could have been putting out peace feelers before this became a problem. We could have been educating people.

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