WEEKLY UPDATES: BREAKING NEWS IN MASSACHUSETTS

Today, Governor Maura Healey announced that the Massachusetts Department of Public Health has issued an emergency order placing all forms of kratom, including safe, natural kratom leaf products, into Schedule I under Massachusetts law. The order takes effect after a 14-day notice period and can remain in place for up to a year.

Let's be clear about what just happened. The federal government recently took targeted action against dangerous, chemically manipulated 7-OH products while explicitly protecting natural kratom leaf. That's what science-based policy looks like.

Massachusetts has ignored that distinction entirely.🚨🚨🚨🚨

This order criminalizes the natural kratom leaf products that tens of thousands of Massachusetts consumers use safely and responsibly every day. It won't remove dangerous products from communities, it will simply hand the entire market to unregulated, untested illicit sellers while punishing responsible consumers.

We've seen this playbook before, and we know how to fight it: with your voices and your stories.

HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO TODAY:

➤ TAKE ACTION NOW on the Massachusetts Protect Kratom Page

Using that page you can

-Contact Governor Healey and DPH Commissioner Goldstein. Tell them you oppose the scheduling and criminalization of natural kratom leaf products and urge them to narrow the order to target chemically manipulated 7-OH products, the real threat.

Also you can Governor Healey's Constituent Services Main Office  Governor Healey's Constituent Services Main Office at (617) 725-4005

-Contact your Massachusetts state legislators. Urge them to pass the Kratom Consumer Protection Act real regulation with product testing, labeling requirements, and age restrictions — instead of prohibition.

-Share your story. Nothing moves officials like hearing directly from the people this ban will hurt. Tell them how natural kratom has helped you and what losing legal access would mean for you and your family. Your story is your most powerful tool.

The clock is running. Once this order takes effect, Massachusetts consumers lose legal access to natural kratom and the fight gets much harder. The next 14 days matter.

Massachusetts advocates: this is your moment. Advocates everywhere else: Massachusetts consumers need you standing with them and your state could be next.

Thank you for standing with us and with kratom consumers across the Commonwealth for freedom and science-based regulation.