Leaders in Fresno want to ban the sale of a supplement they say is too readily accessible to young people visiting local convenience store counters.
The supplement known as Kratom comes from the leaves of a plant that originated in Southeast Asia and can be found all over the world, according to health experts. It can be chewed as a leaf but is also ground into a powder that’s put into pill form or in a tea.
It’s the ground-up version that can be concentrated into 7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH), a synthetic kratom compound that has been found mixed with alcohol in the bodies of three otherwise healthy people between 18 and 40 who died in Los Angeles County, the Los Angeles Department of Public Health said Sept. 12…