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🚨 GARBAGE STUDY ALERT
Before lawmakers mistake this for science worth legislating by, a few inconvenient facts:
Rats don’t metabolize mitragynine into 7-OH the same way humans do. The researchers never measured that conversion.
They DID find thyroid changes at every dose and reproductive toxicity.
Do not base public health policy on a 90-day rat study that fails to establish human safety.
A peer-reviewed bad argument is still a bad argument.
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The ugliest Christmas displays always go up first. Bad taste has never been burdened by good judgment.
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When coroners have to hold a press conference warning the public about the products you’re manufacturing, most respectable businesses would be mortified.
Apparently, in this industry, that’s just another Tuesday in the "botanical kratom" marketing department.
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McCurdy and colleagues proposed a 40 mg mitragynine cap while holding a patent application for technology that increases mitragynine absorption at lower doses. Somehow, the patent escaped the disclosure statement.
Even the AKA’s Mac Haddow was shocked.
When the American Kratom Association is demanding transparency, you’ve achieved something truly extraordinary.
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The American Kratom Association may need to expand its legal department.
Are they planning to sue all 322 localities that have banned kratom sales? And what about the 60 more preparing for hearings this month?
At some point, gentlemen, it ceases to be a conspiracy against your industry and becomes a rather spectacular rejection of your product.
Good luck suing the map.
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How embarrassing. The kratom crackdown has a loophole large enough to drive an Indonesian shipping container through.
Apparently, protecting the botanical opioid industry wasn’t quite the public health victory the lobbyists advertised.
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While the kratom industry continues its tireless campaign to explain why its botanical opioid belongs on every street corner, local governments have discovered a far more efficient solution:
Remove them from the shelves.
322 local bans. 21 states.
A splendid display of common sense, one ordinance at a time.
globalkratom.org/bans/
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One wonders how many lawmakers would have voted to protect “botanical kratom” had the lobbyists explained that it supplies the raw materials for manufacturing 7-OH.
Fortunately, a manufacturer told FDA what the lobbyists neglected to mention.
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The American Kratom Association is calling an emergency gathering in Georgia to “correct misinformation.”
Apparently, the misinformation is that kratom is an opioid, and the correction is to fill a room with people who wish it weren’t.
Room 216. Reality remains outside.
@GaHouseHub
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Mississippi’s convenience store association voted UNANIMOUSLY to support banning ALL kratom products including botanical.
The American Kratom Association has spent years polishing this turd. Apparently, the people expected to sell it remain unimpressed.
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We at the Anti-Kratom Association hate to spoil this heartwarming story, but kratom is an opioid.
We question the American Kratom Association’s remarkable effort to portray replacing one opioid with an opioid as a triumph over opioids.
Mollie from West Virginia lives with rheumatoid arthritis, and taking opiates for the pain felt impossible. Krat☘m lets her live her life without feeling drugged out. "Kratom has changed my life for the better."
Real stories. Real relief.
Story via AdvocateStory.org
We at the Anti-Kratom Association are delighted to see the American Kratom Association celebrating kratom’s ability to provide pain relief comparable to prescription opioids.
Apparently, opioid-like effects are a public health crisis until someone puts leaves on the packaging.
Real stories. Real questions.
Nathan from Utah broke his femur in a 1998 car wreck and spent years on prescribed opiates for the chronic pain that followed. He has taken Krat☘m raw leaf powder for over 12 years. "It was life-changing because I could take it when I needed it rather than all of the time."
Real stories. Real relief.
Story via AdvocateStory.org
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The prestigious High Times, that venerable pillar of intellectual excellence, renowned for its groundbreaking scholarship in recreational intoxication, is now questioning the kratom lobby.
One can only imagine @TheKratomAssn is already preparing another six-page declaration of wounded dignity. Having failed to intimidate The New York Times, perhaps the editorial board of High Times will prove more susceptible to a lengthy tantrum on official letterhead.
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Apparently, selling an addictive opioid-like substance at gas stations wasn’t classy enough. So the kratom industry put on yoga pants, hired influencers, and called it “wellness.”
Same drug. Better lighting. Crippling addiction.
Excellent reporting by The New York Times.
nytimes.com/2026/11/02/well/…
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Yes...the entire botanical kratom plant on schedule I, where it belongs
Today NDAA joined 5 national law enforcement organizations urging @DEAHQ and @US_FDA to place the entire kratom plant and its active alkaloids in Schedule I.
A threshold-based approach leaves dangerous products on the shelves and is difficult to enforce.
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The kratom industry wanted a loophole. America’s prosecutors, sheriffs, narcotics officers, and criminal investigators just asked DEA to close it.
SIX national law enforcement organizations are demanding Schedule I for the ENTIRE kratom plant, mitragynine, and its derivatives.
No thresholds.
No botanical exemption.
No more games.
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🚨 THE AMERICAN KRATOM ASSOCIATION DEMANDS TO SPEAK TO THE MANAGER!
The NYT investigated kratom lobbying, political donations and OPMS wrongful-death lawsuits.
Mac Haddow fired back with six pages demanding a retraction.
Six pages of indignation and wounded majesty.
Apparently, freedom of the press is wonderful until the press starts investigating your industry.
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Well, apparently the miracle botanical Kratom has now entered veterinary medicine.
The ASPCA reports a nearly 400% increase in kratom poisoning exposure calls involving pets in 2025.
Sedation, vomiting, tremors, cardiovascular effects. What a splendid addition to the family dog’s wellness routine.
Sit. Stay. Detox.
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We at the Anti-Kratom Association agree. Science should lead.
Which is precisely why we’re asking NIH to explain why taxpayers are funding another kratom mouse study when mitragynine’s opioid pharmacology and conversion to 7-hydroxymitragynine are already documented.
We invite taxpayers to ask NIH themselves.
antikratom.org/waste.html
Science should lead decisions about kratom.
WSU has been awarded a $7.5M NIH grant to study kratom, chronic pain, and sleep. AKA welcomes rigorous research to inform evidence-based policy.
Read WSU’s announcement: news.wsu.edu/press-release/2…
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