45 Congressmen Ask DEA Not to Ban Kratom Next Week
Last week I posted about these 45 Congressmen – of both parties – sending the head of the DEA a letter requesting to put off the rescheduling of Kratom. The House of Representatives controls the purse strings of the ENTIRE GOVERNMENT.
I suspect that the DEA has at least 60 days to respond to that letter and JUST BY CHANCE that is AFTER THE ELECTION DAY.
If these Representatives were REALLY SERIOUS… maybe they should introduce a new bill that would cut the DEA’s budget… new fiscal year starts Oct 1, 2016 if they did not rescind the restricting of Kratom. Maybe because they know that the chairperson of whatever committee would handle this would not pass such a bill out of committee nor would Paul Ryan (Speaker of the House) would not bring such a bill to a vote before the House… and could there be NO ONE in the Senate that would introduce a complimentary bill ?
Could this just be a “slight of hand” by these 45 Representatives to make those chronic painers in their respective districts believe that they have a concern about the DEA’s rescheduling of Kratom… and once the election day has come and gone… and they get re-elected… their concern about this issue will nothing more than “we tried” and NOTHING HAPPENED ?
I am sure that enough Kratom users will be “suckered in” and fooled about their concern and re-elect them.. so that they can DO MORE in the days to come and continue the fight of the getting the DEA to back down on the re-scheduling of Kratom.
On the other side… there are 435 members of the House of Representatives… so these 45 representatives … only represents about ELEVEN PER-CENT of the House… does that mean that 89 PER-CENT of the House agrees with the DEA’s action on rescheduling Kratom ?
Filed under: General Problems
Why are our “lawmakers” “asking” the DEA anything? Our government was set up with 3 branches – Legislative branch – Congress passes laws; Executive Branch – President executes those laws; Judicial Branch – Supreme Court rules on whether the law(s) are constitutional or not. There is NO place in our Constitution in which another branch can also pass laws, so why does the DEA have that ability? I’ll answer that – because the DEA has TOO MUCH POWER. PERIOD! #VoteTheBumsOut
It would be interesting to know how many of those 45 are actually up for reelection. I fear this is simply smoke and mirrors and nothing good will come out of it for the pain community.
George, ending the war on pain patients would help but neither will be done because it would mean les money and fewer jobs for the DEA and their kind!
If they cared about the American people they would end the war on drugs . This is just a phony ploy to get votes just like cannabis , schedule 1 not going to change until the war on drugs has ended .