For anyone hearing about kratom for the first time, I'd like to add something. I have an extreme form of crohn's disease called 'fistulizing crohn's disease' and have had most medications fail, have had perforated bowels 4 times in the past 7 years (that's extra bad), and have generally been really sick on and off for most of my life.

I found kratom on the internet and tried it out, I make tea out of it, it's like an herb/crushed leaf, like any tea or like coffee (which comes from the same family of tree that the kratom leaf grows on). It has made me have normal bowel movements for the first time in basically my entire life. I can live more normally and go out and do stuff, I don't have a bunch of pain in my abdomen anymore. I used to take serious pain medication like dilaudid and morphine for it, but that caused severe constipation and caused even more damage and scarring in my intestines. Thanks to this random herbal tea, as fake as it might sound (like 'miracle drug' scam), that's the reality of my life now, kratom is one of the only things that has actually helped me feel better and it's nowhere near as powerful as pot or alcohol.

The DEA is preying on sick Americans. They are professional conspiracy theorists with the right to murder and kidnap, and they not only fail at their duty (which shouldn't exist in the first place because obviously prohibition does not work), they misuse their authority to harm innocent people. Now thanks to the DEA I'll have to go back to taking ridiculously powerful pain medication, if I can't get or take kratom legally and my symptoms come back.