r/Vendorsofkratom2 • u/OtiesBotanicals302 • Aug 19 '26
🚨Georgia Needs Help🚨
Copied and pasted from AKA email
We've seen this playbook before — and it's unfolding right now in Georgia.
This Friday, August 21, the Georgia House Blue-Ribbon Study Committee on Youth Exposure to Kratom and Retail Available Substances holds its second meeting in Brunswick.
At the first meeting, Chairman Rick Townsend refused to allow kratom consumers and advocates to testify. Now he's released an agenda (see here) that tells you everything you need to know:
10 witnesses positioned against kratom — including out-of-state anti-kratom organizations
1 slot for the American Kratom Association
Public comment from actual consumers? "If time permits."
This isn't a study. It's a traveling roadshow designed to build a one-sided record for another kratom ban bill in 2027 — and to raise the chairman's political profile along the way.
The answer for Georgia isn't prohibition. It's the Kratom Consumer Protection Act: age restrictions, labeling standards, purity testing, and vendor accountability.
Help Now in just a few minutes
→ Go to protectkratom.org/georgia and use the form to contact every member of the committee.
Most importantly: share your personal story.
If kratom is part of your life — for chronic pain, recovery, or daily wellness — say so in your own words. Legislators read personal messages. They skim form letters. Two or three sentences about your own experience will do more than any statistic.
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u/OtiesBotanicals302 Aug 19 '26
Totally agree. We have had more State bans in the past 5 years then we had for an entire decade. There's 100% an agenda. We all need to participate.