Or maybe just carrying out big pharma directives.? For anyone unaware of Kratom it is an Indonesian herb used for centuries which people in America have been picking up on in recent years. I would never claim a drug to be 100% safe but this stuff can be tagged with relatively little damage. Web MD claims it had been invovled in 91/27,000 OD's studied between 2016 and 2017 in 27 states however if memory served almost all of those involve other more dangerous drugs but Kratom happened to be on board. I only know of one case where that was not the case.
People world wide use the substance to treat pain and anxiety and opiate withdrawal. Like alcohol it can be titrated so the user does not become noticably high or so they do catch a buzz.
But the FDA has been doggedly trying to remove our access to Kratom for years. You would think that they might have bigger fish to fry with epidemic opiate OD's a lot of which occur with legal pills sold by big pharma. In fact one would think that any relatively safe substance with even the potential to help ease opiate withdrawal would be welcomed. But oh no and kratom providers better not dare even allude to such a possibility! Only big pharma can advertise like that.
The whole thing has perplexed me for years hence my two possible reasons
1) Just control. Period.
2) Just getting rid of the drug industries competition.
They have tried to ban it and been forecd off that tact by public opinion. They aparrently got shot down a year or two ago in attempts to pressure indonesia into banning this important export and Kratom sales continue despite their making it difficult to use credit cards to buy Kratom of off the internet.
Now they are colluding with WHO. And I think we all know how WHO feels about personal choice! Hey governement get the hell out of my business. What ever happened to "my body my choice"?
https://kingdomkratom.com/fda-pressu...ho-ban-kratom/