CONCORD, N.H.- The House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee backed legislation that would restrict the sales of Kratom, an herbal supplement commonly referred to as “gas station heroin.”

On Tuesday lawmakers offered amendments to Senate Bill 557 which would task the State Liquor Commission with enforcing the ban and classify synthetic and semi-synthetic Kratom as a Schedule II drug that adult consumers couldn’t purchase without a prescription.

If passed officials from the Liquor Commission estimates that the bill would eliminate roughly 75% of the existing market.