Almost on a whim last September, John Henry bought his first bottle of kratom. Standing in line at a gas station near the ...

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.

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

Florida officials have taken emergency action to ban 7-OH, a synthetic drug extracted from kratom, by reclassifying it as a ...

Attorney General James Uthmeier says Florida is immediately banning the substance 7-OH, an acronym for hydroxymitragynine.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed an emergency rule on Wednesday, immediately classifying isolated and ...

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

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.

7-OH occurs naturally at low levels in the kratom plant, but the FDA is most concerned with products that contain 7-OH in ...

“Objective science has spoken,” added Avena. “Concentrated 7-OH opioid products are illegal, unapproved new drugs. Until ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday said it is recommending a scheduling action to control certain ...