Kratom and Mitragyna Speciosa legal claims

Seeking Justice for Kratom Injury and Wrongful Death Victims: Legal Help is Here.

Your pain is real, and so is our commitment to help. Kratom has taken hundreds of lives and ruined countless others. Our firm has a proven track record of holding manufacturers and distributors accountable. Kratom-related cases are intricate and require specialized knowledge and expertise. Our firm is uniquely positioned to navigate the legal landscape with a focused understanding of the laws surrounding Kratom, its effects, and the parties responsible. We have successfully litigated against powerful corporations and entities, ensuring that victims receive the compensation they are entitled to. Your fight is our fight, and we will not rest until those accountable are held responsible.

Wetherington Law Firm, in partnership with Ashby | Thelen | Lowry are bringing legal claims against every person and entity involved in the import and selling of dangerous kratom products.

Kratom contains dozens of psychoactive compounds or alkaloids, including mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine. These two alkaloids affect the brain in a manner similar to heroin. Like opiates, these compounds can lead to analgesia (release of pain), euphoria, and sedation. Most kratom products currently sold in the United States lack adequate warnings and dosing instructions for safe use. Worse, the products have irregular potency, inconsistent ingredients, and sometimes contain fillers ranging from baking soda to fentanyl.

Kratom Sold in the United States is Unsafe for Human Consumption.

Kratom may seem natural, but it’s fraught with danger. Side effects range from nausea and vomiting to seizures, coma, and even death. The FDA has repeatedly warned against its consumption, yet it remains available in some areas.

Our firm is committed to educating our clients on the full scope of Kratom’s dangers and the complexities of the law surrounding it. Trust in our deep knowledge and experience to guide you through the difficult terrain of Kratom litigation.

Scientific literature has documented serious health threats regarding the toxicity of kratom. Kratom consumption can lead to many adverse health impacts, including respiratory depression, nervousness, agitation, aggression, sleeplessness, hallucinations, delusions, tremors, loss of libido, constipation, skin hyperpigmentation, nausea, vomiting, and severe withdrawal signs and systems.^[2]

The FDA considers any product containing kratom adulterated.. In February 2014, the F.D.A. banned the import of kratom-containing supplements.^[3] Despite being criminalized in many foreign countries with punishments of up to 70 years or more ^[4] and a prohibition on sale by the U.S. F.D.A., kratom manufacturers have continued to distribute kratom around the world and shifted their efforts to the United States where trade organizations seek to prevent enforcement of existing drug, food, and supplement laws prohibiting the import and sale of kratom.

Worse, certain kratom manufacturers have begun producing, marketing, and selling concentrated forms of kratom. Kratom liquid shots are particularly dangerous because they are intended to provide consumers with higher concentrations of mitragynine, substantially increasing the risk of overdose and death.

Which Companies and Entities Are Involved?

Our list continues to grow daily. We are currently investigating claims involving the following individuals and businesses:

• 1836 Kratom
• Acadica
• Advanced Nutrition
• Aether
• Alphabet Wholesale
• American Kratom Association
• Apotheca
• Authentic Kratom
• Axis Holdings
• Biopharmaceutical Technology Services
• Buy Kratom Bulk USA
• Blue Magic
• Botanical Bunny
• CAG Holding Co
• Cannopy Company
• Cascade-Naturals
• Chief Kratom
• Choice Organics
• Christopher’s Organic Botanicals
• Cloud 9 Smoke
• Club 13 Kratom
• Companion Agriculture
• Della Terra Pharmaceutical
• Delta Extracts Kratom
• Earth Kratom
• EXP Kratom
• Experience Botanicals
• First Coast Tea Co.
• Glazba Botanicals
• Gulf Coast Kratom
• Happy Go Leafy
• Happy Hippo Herbals
• Harvest Kratom
• Herbal RVA
• Hush Kratom
• I Am Shaman
• Innovo Activas
• J&M Distributors
• Jordan Process
• Just Kratom
• K Chill
• K-Tropix
• Kats Kratom
• Kenji Kratom
• King Kratom
• Klarity Kratom
• Koi Kratom
• Kraken Kratom
• Kratom Country
• Kratom Crazy
• Kratom Kaps
• Kratom Source USA
• Kratom Spot
• Kryptic Kratom
• Legends Kratom Company
• LGI Holdings
• LIV Group
• Mark Jennings
• Lih Tea Company
• Mark Reilly
• Martian Sales
• Mehaek Corporation
• Mit45
• MitWellness
• Mystic Island Kratom
• New Dawn Kratom
• Nova Kratom
• NP Biopharma
• NuWave Botanicals
• O.P.M.S. Kratom
• Oasis Kratom Products
• Olistica Life Sciences Group
• One Stop Herbal Shop
• OPMS Solutions
• OPMS Solutions Group
• OPMS Wholesale
• Optimized Plant Mediated Solutions
• Organic Kratom USA
• Overseas Organix
• PA Botanicals
• Pacific West Holdings
• Payton Palaia
• Peyton Shea Palaio
• Phytoextractum
• Precision Biologics
• Pur Botanical
• RMH Holdings
• Savro Management
• SK Herbalist
• Shell Corporation
• Stardust Kratom
• Super Speciosa
• The Golden Monk
• Top Extracts
• Total Packing Solutions
• Tusk Kratom
• Whole Herbs Kratom
• Whyodius Botanicals
• World of Tobacco

If you have additional information about these individuals/companies, or know of additional companies that should be included in our investigation, please send us a message.

How Much Does it Cost to Get Legal Help?

We accept all cases on contingency. That means that we advance all expenses and you do not pay anything unless we win. If you have had a serious adverse health event caused by kratom, send us a message or click here to complete our information gathering form.

Is this a Class Action?

We are primarily investigating individual personal injury and death claims involving kratom products. We are still investigating the viability of class-wide claims.

How to Hire the Best Kratom Injury Lawyers For Your Claim

Hiring an attorney is one of the most important decisions you can ever make.  There are a number of attorneys who hold themselves out as “experts” who have never tried a case before a jury. You may not know who those attorneys are, but the defense attorneys certainly do!  If we accept your case, it will be on contingency.  That means that you do not pay anything up front and only pay us if we win your case.

If you have had a serious adverse health event caused by kratom, send us a message or click here to complete our information gathering form.

[1]  Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Summary of assessments, findings and recommendations of the 44th World Health Organization’s (WHO) Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD), 11–15 October 2021 (https://www.unodc.org/documents/commissions/CND/CND_Sessions/CND_64Reconvened/ECN72021_CRP12_V2108992.pdf); FDA News Release, FDA issues warnings to companies selling illegal, unapproved kratom Drug products (https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-issues-warnings-companies-selling-illegal-unapproved-kratom-drug-products-marketed-opioid); see also DOJ DEA Drug Fact Sheet – Kratom (https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-06/Kratom-2020_0.pdf).

[2]  See FDA Import Alert # 54-15 (https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_1137.html) (last accessed October 18, 2022).

[3]  Kratom Import Alert 54-15 (https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_1137.html).

[4]  Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Myanmar, Malaysia, Australia, and New Zealand have banned Kratom. European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). 2015. (http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/drug-profiles/kratom).

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