Yes, Kratom is legal in Mesa, Arizona.

You can use kratom wherever you’d like in the city and you can buy it at many local establishments. While kratom is available locally, it is often more affordable on sites like Enhanciosa – which offers free shipping that often arrives to Mesa in just two days. In fact, if you use code ‘Arizona20‘ at checkout, we will give you 20% off of your first purchase!

Mesa is a city in Maricopa County, in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is a suburb located about 20 miles (32 km) east of Phoenix in the East Valley section of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. It is bordered by Tempe on the west, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community on the north, Chandler and Gilbert on the south along with Queen Creek, and Apache Junction on the east.

Mesa is the largest suburban city by population in the United States, the third-largest city in Arizona after Phoenix and Tucson, and the 35th-largest city overall in the US. The city is home to 508,958 people as of 2018 according to the Census Bureau, which makes it more populous than major cities such as Minneapolis, St. Louis, or Miami. Mesa is home to numerous higher education facilities including the Polytechnic campus of Arizona State University. It is also home to the largest relief airport in the Phoenix area, Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, which is located in the southeastern corner of the city.

This post is created for individuals that might be traveling to Mesa, and not certain of the legal status of kratom (mitragyna speciosa) within it’s city limits. As mentioned before, the legal status of kratom in Arizona is well documented here. It’s important to verify that kratom is, in fact, legal when you are traveling. Lest you wind up somewhere like Alabama, and wind up on the wrong side of the law. To avoid a situation like that, we keep up to date with the ongoing legal changes from local and regional to state, national as well as international legislation regarding the plant, kratom, and all it’s by products.

The history of Mesa dates back at least 2,000 years to the arrival of the Hohokam people. The Hohokam, whose name means “All Used Up” or “The Departed Ones”, built the original canal system. The canals were the largest and most sophisticated in the prehistoric New World. Some were up to 90 feet (27 m) wide and 10 feet (3.0 m) deep at their head gates, extending for as far as 16 miles (26 km) across the desert. By A.D. 1100 water could be delivered to an area over 110,000 acres (450 km2), transforming the Sonoran Desert into an agricultural oasis. By A.D. 1450, the Hohokam had constructed hundreds of miles of canals many of which are still in use today.

After the disappearance of the Hohokam and before the arrival of the early settlers little is known, as explorers did not venture into this area. By the late 19th century near present-day Mesa, U.S. Army troops subdued the Apache, opening the way for settlement.

Mormon pioneer Daniel Webster Jones, with Henry Clay Rogers as his right-hand man, led an expedition to found a Mormon settlement in Arizona. Leaving St. George, Utah in March 1877, Jones and others arrived at Lehi, an area within the northern edge of present-day Mesa. Jones had been asked by Mormon officials to direct a party of people in establishing a settlement in Arizona. This settlement was initially known as Jonesville and Fort Utah and did not receive the name of Lehi until 1883, when it was adopted on the suggestion of Brigham Young, Jr.

At the same time, another group dubbed the First Mesa Company arrived from Utah and Idaho. Their leaders were named Francis Martin Pomeroy, Charles Crismon, George Warren Sirrine and Charles I. Robson. Rather than accepting an invitation to settle at Jones’ Lehi settlement, they moved to the top of the mesa that serves as the city’s namesake. They dug irrigation canals, some of which were over the original Hohokam canals, and by April 1878, water was flowing through them. The Second Mesa Company arrived in 1879 and settled to the west of where the First Mesa Company settled in 1880, due to lack of available farmland. This settlement was called Stringtown.

On July 17, 1878, Mesa City was registered as a 1-square-mile (2.6 km2) townsite. The first school was built in 1879. In 1883, Mesa City was incorporated with a population of 300 people. Dr. A. J. Chandler, who would later go on to found the city of Chandler, worked on widening the Mesa Canal in 1895 to allow for enough flow to build a power plant. In 1917, the city of Mesa purchased the utility company. The revenues from the company provided enough for capital expenditures until the 1960s. During the Great Depression, WPA funds provided paved streets, a new hospital, a new town hall and a library.

After the founding of the city the elected official that most impacted the municipality was George Nicholas Goodman. He was mayor 5 different times[12] in parts of 3 different decade (1938-1942, 1946-1948, 1952-1956) (see: List of mayors of Mesa, Arizona). As mayor he was directly involved in the process of acquiring land for both Falcon Field and Williams Field.

With the opening of Falcon Field and Williams Field in the early 1940s, more military personnel began to move into the Mesa area. With the advent of air conditioning and the rise of tourism, population growth exploded in Mesa as well as the rest of the Phoenix area. Industry—especially early aerospace companies—grew in the 1950s and 1960s. As late as 1960, half of the residents of Mesa made a living with agriculture, but this has declined substantially as Mesa’s suburban growth continued on track with the rest of the Phoenix metro area.

It doesn’t matter what suburb or neighborhood that you are from – if you live in the Mesa area, then it is legal to buy, possess and sell kratom without any fear of repercussion. We recommend buying from kratom in a place that is well lit, and well trafficked so as to not put oneself in a position that might be compromising. There are a variety of well established head shop and smoke shops in the Mesa area that will be able to facilitate that need. Additionally, there are several online e-commerce kratom vendors based in Mesa that can also accommodate one, perhaps more conveniently so as they deliver to you.

According to the City’s 2015 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city are:

Employer # of employees

1 Banner Health System 9,573
2 Mesa Public Schools 8,500
3 Boeing 4,700
4 City of Mesa 3,545
5 Walmart 2,507
6 Gilbert Public Schools 1,300
7 Fry’s Food and Drug 1,087
8 Mesa Community College 1,002
9 The Home Depot 963
10 Maricopa County Government 902

Cultural attractions

LDS Mesa Arizona Temple with Christmas lights

Mesa Grande Ruins
Mesa Arizona Temple, a large LDS temple, where an Easter Pageant is held every spring (due to extensive renovations the Easter Pageant will not be held until at least 2020)
HoHoKam Park of the Cactus League, home of the Oakland Athletics and former home of the Chicago Cubs during spring training, the WAC Baseball Tournament and former summer home to the now defunct Mesa Miners professional baseball team of the Golden Baseball League
Sloan Park, opened in 2014 as the new Cactus League spring training home of the Chicago Cubs
Mesa Arts Center
Mesa Amphitheater
Museums
i.d.e.a. Museum formerly Arizona Museum for Youth
Commemorative Air Force Arizona Wing Aircraft Museum, located at Falcon Field – B-17 Sentimental Journey
Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa Arts Center
Mesa Historical Museum
Arizona Museum of Natural History
Archeological sites
Mesa Grande Ruins
Park of the Canals
Public libraries
Main Library (MN)
Dobson Ranch Branch (DR)
Mesa Express Library (MEL)
Red Mountain Branch (RM)
Water parks
Golfland Sunsplash waterpark on U.S. 60
The only highrise in Mesa is the Bank of America (formerly Western Savings) building near Fiesta Mall.
Organ Stop Pizza, containing the world’s largest Wurlitzer organ

It doesn’t matter if you live in any of these Mesa communities – if you live in the Mesa area, then by default, kratom is 100% legal.