US HHS Pulled Recommendation To Make Kratom A Controlled Substance, But Kept Mum On Change

Agency Recently Disclosed 2018 Letter To DEA Rescinding Findings To Schedule Kratom

HHS released to industry proponents Reps. Mark Pocan and Morgan Griffith the letter it submitted in 2018 notifying DEA that it was rescinding recommendation it made in 2017 to list kratom active ingredients mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine under Schedule I of the CSA.

The Drug Enforcement Administration proposed scheduling extracts from the botanical kratom as controlled substances in the US four years ago and the Department of Health and Human Services a year later submitted findings supporting the proposal before changing its position after another year.

However, the correspondence the HHS submitted to the DEA in 2018 rescinding its recommendation to schedule kratom has been kept...

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