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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 public docket on 7-OH is open now until 10 September 2026
This is the docket behind a federal ban. The DEA has said it intends to place 7-OH in Schedule I wherever it exceeds a threshold: more than 0.05% of dry weight in plant material, or more than 0.05% by weight or 1 mg per article in an extract, concentrate, edible or pill. That order has not been issued. It could be published any day, and what arrives in this docket first is part of what informs it.
One federal ban has already landed, and it is a different one. On 26 August a DEA temporary order took effect placing mitragynine pseudoindoxyl, MGM-15 and MGM-16 in Schedule I nationwide, for two years, with no threshold at all. That decision is made. The 7-OH threshold is the one still open, and it is the one that decides what happens to ordinary leaf.
A federal docket is the one place where an ordinary person's written comment becomes part of the official record, and agencies are required to consider what comes in. Read what they are asking before you write. A comment that speaks to the threshold itself — whether 0.05% is the right line, and what it does to a product nobody would call concentrated — carries far more weight than a general statement of support.
Docket HHS-OASH-2026-0232. What the threshold would actually reach, and what to say. Civic Duty walks you through the points a docket comment should cover and drafts it with you. It is run independently by a Haven Access volunteer — not part of this site, and not covered by our privacy policy.
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.