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Advocacy group lobbies to reverse DEA classification

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Sept. 22, 2016

An advocacy group wants to (legally) unleash the kratom — a previously legal herbal drug just days away from being banned.

While the American Kratom Association claims the plant provides "increased energy, minor pain relief and many find relief from a variety of other mental and physical ailments," the DEA finds that the drug has "currently no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse."

The herb is currently regulated as a supplement by the Food and Drug Administration, but, come Sept. 30, the Drug Enforcement Administration will classify the substance as a Schedule I drug, the same class as other illegal drugs.

The group is working with Upstream Consulting under brothers Mac Haddow, who served as a Utah state representative in the 1980s and a campaign manager to Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and CEO John Haddow, who was legislative director to Hatch and health policy director of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee from the 1970s to 1990s.

Subjects: American Kratom Association; Upstream Consulting; John M. Haddow; C. McClain Haddow (Mac); Former Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT); Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee; Utah House of Representatives; Drug Enforcement Administration; Food and Drug Administration

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