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Saturdays should be about football, not funerals.
Kratom is an opioid-like drug sold at gas stations next to the candy. Our new ad calls on President Trump and Congress to ban every form of it.
Add your name: gooddrugpolicy.org/ban-krato…
Today @GoodDrugPolicy launched “Football, Not Funerals,” a new TV ad campaign on the dangers of kratom.
We’re calling on President Trump and Congress to enact a federal ban on all forms of the drug.
Saturdays should be about football, not funerals. Watch the ad.
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The DEA says MGPI, a kratom opioid, carries "a high risk for overdose." It's turned up in 48 fatal overdoses.
After a lobbying push by a distributor facing wrongful death suits, the administration backed off banning it.
Kratom is an opioid. Ban it all.
thedrugreport.org/2026/10/28…
Gummy bears and candy-style cookies with THC inside. Different drug, same playbook as kratom by the gas station register: get them young.
From THC INC: youtu.be/uyD02y6D9e0
The @nytimes on the new 7-OH limits: the allowable amounts are "25 to 500 times the levels currently found on the market." Kratom's defenders include a scientist who worked on behalf of Purdue Pharma.
Kratom is an opioid. Get it off the shelves.
nytimes.com/2026/10/28/us/po…
Recovery high schools were built for students addicted to opioids. Now they're filling with young people addicted to cannabis.
One started in 8th grade: "I really wish I never started."
From THC INC: youtu.be/uyD02y6D9e0
A 2-year-old in Indiana may never walk again after police say he got into 7-OH tablets, a kratom opioid sold under the counter.
Kratom is an opioid. It has no place on store shelves, in our homes or near our kids.
wsmv.com/2026/10/26/2-year-o…
Addiction is a business model. Our CEO @KevinSabet and Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) on the multi-billionaires profiting from it, on High Stakes: youtu.be/dE2UnWPc0sQ
Kratom "consumer protection" laws don't protect anyone. States that passed them saw 4x the rate of life-threatening outcomes and deaths of states that banned kratom.
Our CEO @KevinSabet in @cityjournal:
city-journal.org/article/kra…
This isn't the Woodstock weed of yesteryear. Dabs, shatters and waxes at up to 99% THC, sold by an industry our co-founder @LukeNiforatos calls Big Tobacco 2.0.
I joined @tracegallagher on @FoxNews late last night to talk about Massachusetts' historic upcoming vote to repeal recreational marijuana sales:
A young man's messages home: a voicemail begging his dad for help to get sober, then a late-night text to his mom, "I wish I would've been a better person."
His parents lost him to suicide. Watch their story in THC INC, free: youtu.be/uyD02y6D9e0
Cade McDonald was 2 months from turning 21. The medical examiner ruled his death mitragynine toxicity, the main compound in kratom.
His mom told Leon County: "Herbal does not mean safe."
Commissioners voted unanimously to draft a ban.
thedrugreport.org/2026/10/16…
Kratom is an opioid. By textbook and by law.
A poison center leader and an opioid expert just took apart the industry's core claim.
thedrugreport.org/2026/10/20…
Texas, 2017: 14 kratom and 7-OH deaths.
Texas, January to August 2026: 111.
This is what "natural" looks like.
abc13.com/post/grieving-texa…
"We need to ban all of it."
Our co-founder @LukeNiforatos on Newsmax, taking on the kratom industry's lead lobbyist.
Kratom is killing Americans. Join the call for a federal ban on the entire kratom plant:
gooddrugpolicy.org/ban-krato…
FDPS condemns DOJ for loosening rules on dangerous kratom opioids weeks after Ole Miss deaths.
"These products are opioids sold next to candy bars." @KevinSabet
gooddrugpolicy.org/2026/10/d…
Recovery needs somewhere to go. Sending patients straight back to the street after treatment sets them up to relapse.
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Treat someone for gambling addiction, then drop them off at a casino and say "Good luck."
Dr. Pouya Azar on discharging patients back to the Downtown Eastside: overdose, resuscitation, treatment, relapse. Repeat.
youtu.be/w97dvBWgVW4
75% of BC youth who died of drug poisoning were already known to child welfare. Dr. Julian Somers on where the system is falling short.
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A hallway gurney is not treatment. Vancouver's mayor says what patients actually need is real care beds.
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Involuntary care is already happening in BC. It just looks like someone "strapped down to a gurney in a hallway for 48 hours" then released.
"I don't think that's humane." @KenSimCity on why BC needs real treatment beds.
Watch the full PROSPER Symposium: youtu.be/w97dvBWgVW4
The body turns kratom's main ingredient into 7-OH, which can be 13 times as potent as morphine. Banning 7-OH alone isn't enough.
Thank you, @ChuckGrassley. Sign the petition: bankratomnow.com
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All Kratom is deadly it should NOT be sold at gas stations/vape stores/ANYWHERE Admin needs 2 put out final 7OH rule NOW Kratom is killing our kids BEWARE of special interest snake oil
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
FDA and DEA distinguish natural kratom leaf (trace 7-OH) from concentrated/synthetic 7-OH products sold in stores; actions target the latter, not all kratom. CDC data: most associated deaths involve multiple substances; 7-OH scheduling process ongoing/not finalized.
fda.gov/news-events/pu…
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cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…
statnews.com/2026/09/30/dea…
Thank you, Vancouver. nitter.cf/PROSPER_CA/status/2106…
Great turnout at the 3rd Annual PROSPER Symposium in Vancouver.
Thank you to Mayor @KenSimCity, Dr. Launette Rieb, Dr. Jenny Melamed, Dr. Pouya Azar, Dr. Julian Somers, Jess Ketchum, Kimmie Jensen, Chantal Vignola, Denise Meikle and everyone who joined us.
