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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA] will hold off on a previously-announced ban of the herbal drug Kratom while soliciting additional input from the public and the Food and Drug Administration [FDA].
A DEA announcement in August that it planned to add the psychoactive compounds in Kratom to the list of Schedule I drugs[1] banned under the Controlled Substances Act drew outrage from individuals who believe the herbal supplement, which is derived from trees indigenous to Southeast Asia, can help individuals struggling with opioid addiction.
"Since publishing that notice, DEA has received numerous comments from members of the public challenging the scheduling action and requesting that the agency consider those comments and accompanying information before taking further action," states a notice[PDF] issued [October 12] by the DEA that it will withdraw its proposal to ban the substance.
[...] In addition to accepting public comments[2] on Kratom through December 1, the DEA has also asked for a scientific and medical evaluation of the drug by the FDA. [DEA spokesman Melvin] Patterson said the DEA initially asked for such an assessment in 2014, but never received the results and opted to go forward with the ban without the assessment.
[...] Susan Ash, who founded the American Kratom Association in 2014 to advocate for users of the drug, said [...] "We believe Kratom should not be scheduled in any way, shape or form," Ms. Ash said. "It's been consumed safely for decades in the U.S. and world-wide for millennium, so there is no impetus to make it a controlled substance."
[1] Claimed to have no legit medical value and a high potential for abuse (as Cannabis is classified)
[2] Their directions are in the PDF, which tells you to go to a ridiculous page which is driven by scripts and use the code Docket No. DEA-442W. It's as if they want to make it as difficult as possible to comment.
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(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday October 17 2016, @03:35PM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Monday October 17 2016, @03:49PM
I see, when I issue "GET /" on port 80, rather than having a normal webpage just like the ones used by billions of people every day, I get some heinous child porn and driveby malware?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Arik on Monday October 17 2016, @09:34PM
Fine I'll humor you just once. Here's the blow by blow.
Lines 1-5 are (intentionally?) left blank.
Lines 6-13 are header stuff, 14 is a LF.
Line 15 is 13,094 characters long and is composed entirely of ecmascript and the surrounding <script> tags. This one line is the majority of the page returned, and contains no human readable text. Lines 16 and 17 are again LFs.
Why they are bothering to use LFs as if they care about readability at this point, after apparently locking up the entire text of the page in some sort of container buried in this massive run-on line which is the utter opposite of readability, but there you go. Incompetence without self-awareness.
Line 18-21 is more scripting.
Line 22 is CSS, 23 a LF, 24 is script, 25 and 26 are LFs.
Line 27 is a noscript tag! Hurray! We have found HTML!
Well, no, actually.
"
<noscript><iframe src="//www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-L8ZB" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe></noscript>
"
Line 28 is a bit more script, then finally we get a title and close the header tag in line 32.
So... into the body, we try to abuse iframe to load more js, and then we get one more <noscript> tag.
"
<noscript>
<div style="width: 22em; position: absolute; left: 50%; margin-left: -11em; color: red; background-color: white; border: 1px solid red; padding: 4px; font-family: sans-serif">
Your web browser must have JavaScript enabled in order for
Regulations.gov to display correctly.
</div>
</noscript>
"
Apparently someone completely failed to grasp the concept of 'graceful degradation.'
Anyhow, that takes us to line 44, 45 is a LF, and then we have two more attempts at scripting and </html> on line 51.
There is quite literally no web page there.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @01:26AM
contains no human readable text
...complains Arik