Weekly Kratom Industry Updates
October has been a huge month for the kratom industry, particularly the battle between natural botanical kratom and concentrated or chemically manipulated 7-OH products. Federal government draws a new line between natural kratom and concentrated 7-OH ...
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that the DEA will issue a new Notice of Intent on 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) and mitragynine pseudoindoxyl that adopts concentration thresholds recommended by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). "HHS recommended that 7-OH...
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A Message from Mac Haddow: Kratom Industry Leaders: I am writing to ask every responsible kratom manufacturer, distributor, and industry leader to participate in an Emergency Kratom Industry Leadership Summit on Monday, October 19, 2026, in Washington, D.C.,...
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October 1, 2026, the AKA sent a letter to Attorney General Fitch urging her to amend her call for a statewide ban and to join Lafayette County investigators in targeting the dangerous synthetic opioid products instead. We also offered Mississippi...
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Update: The Products Reportedly Recovered in the Ole Miss Death Investigations Were Not Natural Kratom━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ American Kratom Association to hold Oxford press conference Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 10 a.m. CT on the misidentification of “Smax” Pseudo-DHM tablets as “kratom,” the...
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