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Saturdays should be about football, not funerals.
Kratom is an opioid-like drug sold at gas stations next to the candy. Our new ad calls on President Trump and Congress to ban every form of it.
Add your name: gooddrugpolicy.org/ban-kratom-now
Kratom is an opioid-like drug sold at gas stations next to the candy. Our new ad calls on President Trump and Congress to ban every form of it.
Add your name: gooddrugpolicy.org/ban-kratom-now
Today @GoodDrugPolicy launched “Football, Not Funerals,” a new TV ad campaign on the dangers of kratom.
We’re calling on President Trump and Congress to enact a federal ban on all forms of the drug.
Saturdays should be about football, not funerals. Watch the ad.
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Undercover agents bought kratom at three Eureka, Calif. smoke shops. Then a raid seized kratom and 7-OH pills and drinks.
California says they're illegal. They were on the shelf anyway.
lostcoastoutpost.com/2026/nov/5/kra…
California says they're illegal. They were on the shelf anyway.
lostcoastoutpost.com/2026/nov/5/kra…
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A 42-year-old man died after taking three tablets of a 7-OH kratom product and several beers, a new case report in the Annals of Emergency Medicine says.
Kratom is an opioid. Ban it all.
acepnow.com/article/annals…
Kratom is an opioid. Ban it all.
acepnow.com/article/annals…
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THC gummies passed around a school sent five students to the hospital by ambulance.
Same playbook as kratom by the register: candy looks, kid customers.
From THC INC: youtu.be/uyD02y6D9e0
Same playbook as kratom by the register: candy looks, kid customers.
From THC INC: youtu.be/uyD02y6D9e0
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Kratom opioids are being sold under the label "cat's claw," an herbal supplement. Utah has linked four deaths to these products.
The medical director of Utah's poison control center: "No one should take these products."
Kratom is an opioid. Ban it all.
thedrugreport.org/2026/10/16/cat…
The medical director of Utah's poison control center: "No one should take these products."
Kratom is an opioid. Ban it all.
thedrugreport.org/2026/10/16/cat…
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Kratom exposures reported to poison centers: 258 in 2015. 3,434 in 2025.
The nation's medical toxicologists link 7-OH to respiratory depression, dependence and withdrawal.
Kratom is an opioid. Ban it all.
thedrugreport.org/2026/10/30/med…
The nation's medical toxicologists link 7-OH to respiratory depression, dependence and withdrawal.
Kratom is an opioid. Ban it all.
thedrugreport.org/2026/10/30/med…
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The American Medical Association told the FDA that with kratom and other botanical drugs, "consumers often are the real-world guinea pigs who suffer tragic consequences, including dependence, use disorders, and death."
Kratom is an opioid. Ban it all.
thedrugreport.org/2026/11/02/ama…
Kratom is an opioid. Ban it all.
thedrugreport.org/2026/11/02/ama…
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A budtender told a young man: "The stronger the better. Chase the high." By 2021 he was in full psychosis.
Addiction for profit always sells stronger.
learnaboutsam.org/pan
Addiction for profit always sells stronger.
learnaboutsam.org/pan
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Sheriffs, DAs and narcotics officers just asked the DEA and FDA to put the whole kratom plant in Schedule I.
Their warning: under the current plan, a 12 oz energy drink could hold 355 mg of 7-OH and not be controlled.
Kratom is an opioid. Ban it all.
facebook.com/ndaajustice/po…
Their warning: under the current plan, a 12 oz energy drink could hold 355 mg of 7-OH and not be controlled.
Kratom is an opioid. Ban it all.
facebook.com/ndaajustice/po…
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The DEA says MGPI, a kratom opioid, carries "a high risk for overdose." It's turned up in 48 fatal overdoses.
After a lobbying push by a distributor facing wrongful death suits, the administration backed off banning it.
Kratom is an opioid. Ban it all.
thedrugreport.org/2026/10/28/kra…
After a lobbying push by a distributor facing wrongful death suits, the administration backed off banning it.
Kratom is an opioid. Ban it all.
thedrugreport.org/2026/10/28/kra…
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Gummy bears and candy-style cookies with THC inside. Different drug, same playbook as kratom by the gas station register: get them young.
From THC INC: youtu.be/uyD02y6D9e0
From THC INC: youtu.be/uyD02y6D9e0
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The @nytimes on the new 7-OH limits: the allowable amounts are "25 to 500 times the levels currently found on the market." Kratom's defenders include a scientist who worked on behalf of Purdue Pharma.
Kratom is an opioid. Get it off the shelves.
nytimes.com/2026/10/28/us/…
Kratom is an opioid. Get it off the shelves.
nytimes.com/2026/10/28/us/…
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Recovery high schools were built for students addicted to opioids. Now they're filling with young people addicted to cannabis.
One started in 8th grade: "I really wish I never started."
From THC INC: youtu.be/uyD02y6D9e0
One started in 8th grade: "I really wish I never started."
From THC INC: youtu.be/uyD02y6D9e0
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A 2-year-old in Indiana may never walk again after police say he got into 7-OH tablets, a kratom opioid sold under the counter.
Kratom is an opioid. It has no place on store shelves, in our homes or near our kids.
wsmv.com/2026/10/26/2-y…
Kratom is an opioid. It has no place on store shelves, in our homes or near our kids.
wsmv.com/2026/10/26/2-y…
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Addiction is a business model. Our CEO @KevinSabet and Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) on the multi-billionaires profiting from it, on High Stakes: youtu.be/dE2UnWPc0sQ
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Kratom "consumer protection" laws don't protect anyone. States that passed them saw 4x the rate of life-threatening outcomes and deaths of states that banned kratom.
Our CEO @KevinSabet in @CityJournal:
city-journal.org/article/kratom…
Our CEO @KevinSabet in @CityJournal:
city-journal.org/article/kratom…
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This isn't the Woodstock weed of yesteryear. Dabs, shatters and waxes at up to 99% THC, sold by an industry our co-founder @LukeNiforatos calls Big Tobacco 2.0.
I joined @tracegallagher on @FoxNews late last night to talk about Massachusetts' historic upcoming vote to repeal recreational marijuana sales:
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A young man's messages home: a voicemail begging his dad for help to get sober, then a late-night text to his mom, "I wish I would've been a better person."
His parents lost him to suicide. Watch their story in THC INC, free: youtu.be/uyD02y6D9e0
His parents lost him to suicide. Watch their story in THC INC, free: youtu.be/uyD02y6D9e0
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Cade McDonald was 2 months from turning 21. The medical examiner ruled his death mitragynine toxicity, the main compound in kratom.
His mom told Leon County: "Herbal does not mean safe."
Commissioners voted unanimously to draft a ban.
thedrugreport.org/2026/10/16/kra…
His mom told Leon County: "Herbal does not mean safe."
Commissioners voted unanimously to draft a ban.
thedrugreport.org/2026/10/16/kra…
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Kratom is an opioid. By textbook and by law.
A poison center leader and an opioid expert just took apart the industry's core claim.
thedrugreport.org/2026/10/20/kra…
A poison center leader and an opioid expert just took apart the industry's core claim.
thedrugreport.org/2026/10/20/kra…
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Texas, 2017: 14 kratom and 7-OH deaths.
Texas, January to August 2026: 111.
This is what "natural" looks like.
abc13.com/post/grieving-…
Texas, January to August 2026: 111.
This is what "natural" looks like.
abc13.com/post/grieving-…
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