DAILYCALLER (Ireland Owens) - As Fentanyl Sweeps Nation Is This Herbal Product Fueling The US’ Next Big Addiction Crisis?
‘significant increases in the number of calls to poison centers’
THENATIONALPULSE (Jackie Subeck) - SUBECK: HHS Should Throw Its 7-OH Scheduling Plan in the Trash.
The Trump administration should throw its plan to temporarily schedule 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) into the trash.Not revise the threshold. Not negotiate over whether the government should allow one milligram, five milligrams or some other politically acceptable number. The entire premise is backwards. The federal government is preparing to use extraordinary emergency powers to place widely used […]
The Trump administration should throw its plan to temporarily schedule 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) into the trash. Not revise the threshold. Not negotiate over whether the government should allow one milligram, five milligrams or some other politically acceptable number. The entire premise is backwards. The federal government is preparing to use extraordinary emergency powers to place widely used products into Schedule I before establishing the science necessary to justify doing so. Under the Controlled Substances Act, temporary scheduling is reserved for circumstances in which action is “necessary to avoid an imminent hazard to public safety.” Yet HHS has just reopened the public comment period for another 15 days, acknowledging it…Open
STRIPES (Matthew Adams) - Army bans kratom use, underscoring Pentagon’s prohibition of the drug | Stars and Stripes
Soldiers are prohibited from using, possessing or distributing kratom or its primary psychoactive components, mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine.
NYTIMES (Christina Jewett and Kenneth P. Vogel) - Trump Administration Delivers Lucrative Win for Its Kratom Allies
In moving to ban a potent synthetic version of kratom, the president’s team paved the way for more sales for makers of rival botanic supplements, who had aggressively lobbied for the change.
AMERICANTHINKER - How a bad capitalist handles competition
The kratom industry used to be scrappy, fighting government red tape to climb the business ladder. Now that it’s dominant, it’s changed its tune.
NYTIMES (Kenneth P. Vogel and Christina Jewett) - How Kratom, an Addictive Gas Station Drug, Found Allies in Trump’s Cabinet
With support from Markwayne Mullin and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the kratom industry is pursuing a potentially lucrative policy. Mr. Mullin owns equity in a company that could benefit.
THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Parents Sue OpenAI After Son Fatally Overdosed Following ChatGPT Drug Advice.
A lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT recommended a dangerous and ultimately fatal cocktail of drugs to a Texas teenager.
A lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT recommended a dangerous and ultimately fatal cocktail of drugs to a Texas teenager . PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: A Texas couple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT provided their son with unsafe advice about drug use, leading to his fatal overdose in 2025. The family alleges that ChatGPT recommended a combination of kratom and Xanax , which proved lethal for their 19-year-old son, Sam Nelson. DETAIL: The lawsuit claims the teen repeatedly used ChatGPT for guidance on various substances and that the chatbot gradually shifted from refusing harmful requests to offering specific recommendations on drug intake and recovery. His parents, Leila Turner-Scott and Angus Scott,…Open
THENATIONALPULSE (The National Pulse) - Georgia’s Kratom Crackdown Runs Against RFK’s Health Vision, Creates Govt Database of Buyers.
Most people aren’t spending their afternoons thinking about the availability of things like kratom, or about 7OH, the kratom compound now sitting squarely in lawmakers’ sights, which is precisely why they think they can get away with using this market as a test case.Kratom, for those who have never encountered it outside a smoke shop, […] The post Georgia’s Kratom Crackdown Runs Against RFK’s Health Vision, Creates Govt Database of Buyers. appeared first on The National Pulse .
Most people aren’t spending their afternoons thinking about the availability of things like kratom, or about 7OH, the kratom compound now sitting squarely in lawmakers’ sights, which is precisely why they think they can get away with using this market as a test case. Kratom, for those who have never encountered it outside a smoke shop, supplement store, or conversation about alternatives to conventional medicine, is a plant from Southeast Asia that has built a sizeable American following. We’ve written about it previously, here . People buy it in powders, capsules, drinks, and extracts for all sorts of reasons, and whatever one thinks of the product itself (I personally have never tried it), it has existed largely outside the usual…Open