The scheduling of kratom is a terrible mistake, Kratom not only helps people relieve pain without using opiates but it also is a safe way to get off of opiates. 
Fifteen years ago I was in a motor vehicle accident while riding my bike. I have three slipped discs and two herniated. My doctors had me on ninety oxy conton 30 mg a month just so I could in a way live as close to a normal life as possible. I was taking the prescribed medications for eight years just living in an opiate haze and I lost my insurance. I didn’t know what to do the withdrawal from the medication my doctor prescribed me was absolute torture and on top of the withdrawal my body is still broken I could barely get out of bed. I ended up having to turn to heroin and that was a whole different downward spiral in its self. I was addicted to heroin for about two and a half years and I had lost everything and I still had chronic pain, depression and it was torture just existing. Then I was introduced to the wonderful plant kratom through a friend that had recently gotten clean off of heroin. With kratom I was able to in about two weeks completely quit heroin. I still had withdrawal but it was much easier. Now I have been completely clean from heroin for over five years because of kratom. Kratom saves lives and is a solution to the opioid epidemic that is killing a whole generation. Scheduling Kratom is a grave mistake. The solution is to set standards for kratom manufacturers to ensure that their are no unsafe substances tainting the pure Kratom. If you do this you will be killing a lot of people. My doctors almost killed me and kratom saved my life. Please don’t take away a plant that has saved so many lives of former addicts.