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Anti-Kratom Association retweeted
Kratom & Security Clearance
"The Department of Energy denied an applicant’s security clearance in 2021 based on Kratom use (see DOE PSH 21-0063), and a DoD contractor was denied in 2023 in part on the same basis (see ISCR 23-02820)"
Kratom and 7-OH: Could Gas Station Supplements Cost You Your Security Clearance?
news.clearancejobs.com/2026/… via @ClearanceJobs
I’m sorry, did the Director of Georgia Poison Control say botanical Kratom was like coffee? Cheese? Nutmeg?
No. He said OPIOIDS.
How terribly inconvenient for the botanical kratom marketing department.
Inside the OPMS kratom wrongful-death lawsuit:
280 court PDFs. 4,819 pages. Autopsy findings, sworn testimony, corporate records, product warnings, and expert reports.
We’ve made the entire archive searchable.
See what botanical kratom looks like under oath.
globalkratom.org/opms/index.…
Just in case anyone missed Mac Haddow’s recap of the state of the kratom industry, we’ve prepared this brief audiovisual summary.
Again...from all-natural, God-given, organic, vegan, plant-based, sustainably harvested, ethically sourced, fair-trade, non-GMO, Indonesian botanical kratom.
Severe naltrexone-precipitated opioid withdrawal.
From all-natural, God-given, organic, vegan, plant-based, sustainably harvested, ethically sourced, fair-trade, non-GMO, Indonesian botanical kratom.
Mother Nature's opioid surprise.
medscape.com/viewarticle/sev…
Kratom treats everything, apparently, except the industry’s chronic shortage of medical evidence.
We created a registry of physicians who recommend it. Actual doctors. Medical school, license, patients. The works.
We even numbered the list.
1.
Surely someone can help us finish it.
globalkratom.org/physician_k…
Excellent piece in City Journal.
I wonder how many lawmakers would have put their names on a Kratom Consumer Protection Act protecting botanical kratom had they understood how readily its alkaloids can be used to produce these concentrated opioids.
Rather important detail to leave out of the sales pitch.
city-journal.org/article/kra…
They may dress it in the respectable language of “botanical kratom,” cloak it in promises of wellness, and insist the public has misunderstood the science.
But no amount of botanical poetry can repeal opioid pharmacology.
Across America, communities are drawing their own conclusions.
globalkratom.org/bans/
Georgia is calling on convenience stores and vape shops to take kratom off their shelves.
Here’s one retailer worth asking directly: Circle K.
We’ve made it ridiculously easy to send corporate a message. Two minutes, no postage, and not a single legislative hearing required.
antikratom.org/circle.html
At some point, we might consider cutting off the source: that all-natural, God-given, organic, vegan, sustainably marketed, BOTANICAL KRATOM.
You know, the plant supplying the alkaloids everyone suddenly wants to pretend have nothing to do with kratom.
sf.gov/news-fatal-overdose-i…
An opioid sold without a prescription. Dependence, withdrawal, hospitalizations, and patients needing Suboxone to get off it.
But please, tell us again how the real problem is that people keep calling it kratom instead of “botanical kratom.”
medshadow.org/integrative-he…
No, I think we’ll keep calling it all KRATOM. You don’t get to divorce the plant from its own alkaloids just because the death certificates make it look bad.
And perhaps you’ve seen Dr. Andrew Kolodny’s delightfully titled paper, “Kratom Is an Opioid.”
Not “Kratom Is an Opioid Unless the American Kratom Association Would Prefer the Name Botanical.”
Anti-Kratom Association retweeted
JUST IN: Kratom is an opioid, a poison center leader and a longtime opioid crisis researcher argue in a new journal editorial.
Dr. Andrew Kolodny of Brandeis University and Dr. Christopher Holstege, director of UVA Health's Blue Ridge Poison Center, make the case in the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, rejecting the kratom industry's claim that its product is not an opioid.
Kratom's main alkaloid, mitragynine, activates the mu-opioid receptor, the same target as morphine. The liver converts it into 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH), a far more potent opioid, according to the editorial.
Poison centers took a record 3,434 kratom exposure reports in 2025, up from 258 in 2015. About 1 in 4 single-substance cases ended in a hospital stay, the editorial notes.
"Kratom meets both the pharmacological and functional definitions of an opioid," the authors write. They say a 7-OH-only approach "rests on a false premise," because leaf kratom produces 7-OH in the body.
The editorial comes as the Justice Department loosened its proposed 7-OH threshold this month, and as a bipartisan push in the Senate seeks to schedule the whole kratom plant.
We at the Anti-Kratom Association extend our sincerest condolences to MIT45’s parent company, Diversified Botanics, upon its Chapter 11 filing.
Apparently, the company went from $98 million in annualized revenue to approximately $30 million, while facing wrongful-death litigation and regulatory scrutiny.
We respectfully inquire whether bankruptcy is among the many wellness benefits of kratom.
petition11.com/p/diversified…
If Mac Haddow testified before your legislative committee and you believed him, you ought to be embarrassed.
He’s now waving around a 2016 study on kratom adulterated with elevated 7-OH to discredit a grieving mother.
Yet somehow, that particular finding never earned a clear warning in the years of written testimony I reviewed.
Apparently, the science was worth weaponizing against a mother who buried her son, but not worth mentioning to the lawmakers charged with protecting him.
Quite a remarkable time for the truth to become convenient.
antikratom.org/advocate/mac2…
#IALegis #MDGA #PaLegis #MSLeg #GAPol #FLLeg #Kratom #7OH
Lora Romney: “Start calling our leaf ‘botanical kratom’ and call the 7-OH or synthetic products ‘enhanced or concentrated opioid products’… It will take some getting used to.”
Translation: We need everyone to stop calling OUR opioid an opioid.
…and did we mention it’s an OPIOID?
You can call it botanical, natural, ancient or a gift from Mother Nature.
You can even hire lobbyists to call it a food.
But you cannot lobby your way out of pharmacology.
KRATOM IS AN OPIOID.
ovid.com/jnls/psychopharmaco…
Anti-Kratom Association retweeted
I left all my thoughts about kratom on the field this morning. Check it:
BAN IT ALL?: Is natural kratom different from concentrated derivatives? Mac Haddow and Luke Niforatos debate the risks and the proper government response. @LukeNiforatos @Tom_Basile
