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House Business and Labor approves interim study on kratom to distinguish natural products from synthetics
Summary
The House Business and Labor Committee voted to pass House Joint Resolution 60, sending an interim study on kratom to the Legislative Council after accepting conceptual edits that remove the word “smoked” and update a national user estimate. Proponents said the study should separate natural kratom from potent synthetic derivatives.
A Montana House Business and Labor panel voted to advance House Joint Resolution 60, an interim study that would direct lawmakers to examine the effects and regulation of kratom and report findings to the next legislature.
Representative Schomer sponsored the resolution and told the committee that previous legislation (House Bill 407) failed in appropriations and left open questions about how to regulate kratom. He said a study would allow lawmakers to “get the facts out” and distinguish between naturally derived products and synthetic isolates.
Isaac d. Hammer, chief operating officer of Kava Roots in Laurel, testified in support of the study. Hammer told the committee that natural kratom has long been consumed in Southeast Asia and…
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