Yep, that the thing, this is a giant game of telephone and a ton of bad info keeps making the rounds. The thing with Kratom, due to not being marketed in the US prior to 1994(As far as anyone knows) makes it a New Dietary Ingredient. So vendors selling to customers who intend to consume the product are supposed to be following cGMP now and at some point will also have to file NDI applications or put together a GRAS form/application for every product they sell. The FDA knows what's going on, it's pretty hard to miss the "Not For Human Consumption, Soap Making, Incense but only for 18 and up" labels. They just work very slow and are trying to figure out how best to proceed. We would be in a far different place if many of the importers and vendors were already cGMP compliant, it would be very difficult to ban a dietary I grediemt helping so many coming from a legitimate market. Sadly we are giving them all the ammo they need to ban it by continuing to push a grey market as a good idea. Grey market substances get banned once they get popular enough. Legitimacy and normalization is the only thing that will save the plant.