Step 1
Find your reps
Your ZIP code is enough. We show you who covers your block and what they decide.
Kratom alkaloid policy · every state
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Haven Access is a grassroots organization founded by kratom alkaloid users, to help regular people find and have a political voice.
Find your reps. Say two sentences. Hang up. That's advocacy.
Federal scheduling decision
The comment window has closed. The decision has not.
The HHS request for information on a 7-OH threshold closed on 10 September 2026. Nothing can be filed to it now, and this page will not pretend otherwise.
What has not happened is the order itself. The DEA has said it intends to place 7-OH in Schedule I wherever it exceeds 0.05% of dry weight in plant material, or 0.05% by weight or 1 mg per article in an extract, concentrate, edible or pill. That order has still not been issued. It has been publishable since 5 August, the comment window never governed it, and because this route runs under section 811(h) there is no notice-and-comment step left to wait for. If it publishes, it takes effect that day.
A separate order is already in force and is often confused with this one: since 26 August, mitragynine pseudoindoxyl, MGM-15 and MGM-16 are in Schedule I nationwide, with no threshold at all. That decision is made. The 7-OH threshold is the one that decides what happens to ordinary leaf, and it is still open.
What the threshold would reach
Docket . This block replaced the call for comments when the docket closed. It carries its own expiry too — if the order has issued by then, it needs rewriting rather than removing.
Why now
Bans move quietly and fast
Most decisions about kratom and its alkaloids get made in state legislatures, in committee, in sessions that last weeks — usually without anyone in the room who actually uses them. And a bill titled "consumer protection" can carry a potency cap, or a definition, that removes the products people rely on.
We are not asking for kratom or its alkaloids to go unregulated. We wrote the regulations we want — 21-and-up, independent lab testing, honest labels, a dependence warning on the package. What we will not accept is a cap, or a ban dressed up as a rule.
Start anywhere
Four things, in order
Nothing here needs a policy degree or a title — just the willingness to say what access to these products means to you, out loud, to someone who votes on it.
Step 2
Make the call
Ninety seconds, with a script. Voicemail counts — offices tally every message.
Step 3
Put it in writing
Two paragraphs, your name, your street. The same thing, on the record.
Step 4
Show up and speak
Committee hearings have a public comment slot. Two minutes is yours by right.
The part nobody says out loud
Being nervous is not a disqualification
You do not need a policy degree, a title, or a perfect sentence. Staffers write down what you say and how many people said it. That number is the whole point.
You do not have to explain yourself either. "I use this, and this bill would take it away" is a complete argument.
And you do not have to do it on your own. Most of us started by watching someone else do it first.