Florida bans kratom compound 7-OH amid warnings of a potential new opioid crisis. What does this mean for consumers?

Florida has declared 7-OH, a concentrated kratom byproduct, illegal due to its high potential for abuse and lack of accepted ...

Botanic Tonics, opens new tab, maker of feel free, today applauded Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier's announcement ...

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Wednesday during a press conference in Tampa that his office is taking ...

Selene San Felice is managing editor of Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. Prior to joining CL in 2025, she started the Axios Tampa ...

Citing an “immediate danger to the public health, safety and welfare,” Attorney General James Uthmeier on Wednesday issued an ...

Potentially there are health uses certainly for kratom, but again, that’s with a prescription, a doctor’s order, you know, ...

Just two weeks after Louisiana became the seventh state to ban kratom entirely, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that an emergency rule ...

Kratom is sold in gas stations, vape shops and convenience stores across the nation. The plant is related to the coffee plant ...

Florida’s emergency rule will classify certain concentration forms of 7-hydroxymitragynine opioid products as Schedule 1 controlled substances in Florida, a step FDA recommended for 7-OH opioids in ...

The crackdown is not on the Kratom plant itself. Rather, it targets a highly concentrated byproduct that officials say is ...

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has announced an emergency rule making 7-hydroxymitragynine, also known as 7-OH, a ...