Big Pharma paid off politicians @ the state level to get this banned state by state, and it failed because of the large turnout @ hearings to ban it. So now obviously DEA has been on the take and came up with this BS ruling to make it a Sched. 1. Saying it has no medicinal value and potential for abuse is ridiculous. How about alcohol and cigarettes, those are legal and have high potential for abuse and no medicinal value. Sign the petition petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/please-do-not-make-kratom-schedule-i-substance Don't turn tea drinkers into felons.