General Discussion

and a touch of 7-OH, aka 7‑hydroxymitragynine. It's a little addictive if you take a lot of it, for along period of time. Not gonna lie.

But the "kratom products" referred to here, like gummies, drinks and pills, are made of *concentrated* 7OH. I don't even know if what's being sold in this form is even actually extracted from kratom itself to begin with. Maybe so, but it hardly makes a difference to your body either way.

7OH, no fucking joke, is literally every bit as euphoric, and addictive, as at LEAST hydrocodone, and maybe even oxycodone. And it's being sold in head shops and even gas stations across over half of US states, including plenty of blue ones. It's not even banned in CA (or AZ).

Mark my words: This is going to result in near-Sackler family level destruction wreaked upon the country. And the makers of this shit are probably all in the Far East, and nobody's going to be able to extract billions of dollars in damages like they did from Purdue. At least in the OC days, you couldn't just go buy it at the freaking gas station.

Personally I'd say leave Kratom LEAF alone. But 7OH? That ain't Kratom. It's a VERY tiny component of it, when used in its natural form. When concentrated, it becomes A HIGHLY addictive one. A fairly perfect analog here is coca leaf vs. cocaine. So, pretty much everyone in this article is speaking truth, and even Brainworm is kinda right (on this ONE thing), if he's seeking to ban concentrated "kratom products" like 7OH.

BTW, I think around 15 states have banned kratom (and by extension 7OH), to the point that in some, it's Schedule 1, and a felony to even possess. Alabama is one of them, funnily enough. Not like that state to be ahead of the curve