Kratom on sale in ground form in Las Vegas ZUMA Press, Inc /Alamy
When the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently announced plans (Mitragyna speciosa), people across the country became interested in a leaf used medicinally for centuries in South-East Asia.
What the DEA did not seem to know is that hundreds of thousands of Americans were already using it for pain relief and as a substitute for opiates and other pharmaceuticals they want to stop using.
Kratom is related to the coffee plant and provides a caffeine-like energy…
