Florida Attorney General, Agriculture Commissioner team up to crack down on ‘gas station morphine’

18,000 packages of so-called “gas station morphine” have been pulled from store shelves in just over a month, Florida’s Attorney General and Agriculture Commissioner announced at a press conference in Jacksonville, Thursday.

7-OH is the active ingredient in Kratom, but in recent years, products containing pure or highly concentrated 7-OH have been hitting store shelves.

The chemical is an opioid compound, the same type of drug as heroin or fentanyl, which has earned the product its “gas station morphine” nickname.

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier banned the products via emergency rule last month, reclassifying them a Schedule I drugs, the same as heroin, LSD, and ecstasy…

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