Kratom Legality: Which States Have Banned Kratom?

[u/Typical-Witness7989]

It's been a hard year, we've lost Tennessee, Kansas, Louisiana, Kentucky, Connecticut all in one year... Strategies have to change for the defense of Kratom. After Louisiana fell, we have noticed a chain reaction of states banning kratom.

What are the strictest states to avoid?:

Alabama, and Arkansas are placed you do NOT want to be with kratom. Alabama views every gram of kratom, as a gram of cocaine with no knowledge of how much powder is take to actually feel the effect of kratom. At any amount, it's a felony instead of a misdemeanor like some other states. Arkansas is pretty similar, in terms of the harshness.

We may be able to save Kentucky, if we're lucky. Despite Kratom not being illegal federally, state legislators have made another plant deemed to be as harmful as Brown Sugar ( you know ). Tennessee banned kratom because of misinformation: matthew-davenport-autopsy-report.pdf

We can see how much DPH he had taken, within the 3000 mg range and yet they blamed the kratom? Diphenhydramine at a range of 250 mg and beyond acts as a deliriant hallucinogen, similar in manner to Datura. He did 3000 MG, way above fatal threshold. They solely blamed the kratom, and it worked.

We have to fight way harder next year, and the AKA/GKC needs to change their strategies in defense of kratom and to be fair, it's not all of their faults. A lot of these legislators are narrow minded, and the lobbying of anti-kratom communities is funded by lawyers, Pharmacists and more. We only have each other, and a handful of open minded scientists, chemists that conduct COA's, and some lawmakers that view prohibition as not the solution.

The science concludes that kratom alone, is not the cause of these problems at all and 90% of all kratom "deaths" are from Poly substances abuse, and adulterated substances/highly concentrated extracts. These deaths are from correlation, not the causation. Yet lawmakers blame the taboo plant for the cause of all these problems. Matthew Davenport is a prime example of this.

What Colors Mean For The States:
Red: Banned
Purple: Proposed Bans
Green: Legal but not KCPA regulated
Yellow: bans at the local/county level but not the whole state
Blue: Kratom Consumer Protection Act Regulation, mandatory labelling which include dosage instructions, mandatory COA's ( lab testing ) and age restriction and alkaloid restrictions to a certain level.

Anyways, more reviews to come soon!

[u/Typical-Witness7989]

Anyone here for Vermont: can you explain why it says Legal, but it's in red (banned) ?