Biologically, kratom acts enough like an opioid that DEA considers it a danger to public security. The agency prepared to utilize a regulative system called emergency scheduling to place it in the same restrictive classification as marijuana, lsd, and heroin . This classification, Schedule I, is scheduled for exactly what the DEA considers the most unsafe drugs-- those without any redeeming medical value, and a high capacity for abuse.

KRATOM: THE RUGGED TREE WHICH MIGHT AID OPIOID JUNKIES-- IN THE EVENT THAT THE DEA DOESN'T BAN IT