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

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier will be joined by several officials while speaking in Tampa on Wednesday afternoon.

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

FDA’s recommendation to control 7-OH products under the Controlled Substances Act should help prevent competition between ...

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

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida officials have taken emergency action to ban 7-OH, a synthetic drug extracted from kratom, by ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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