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Kratom 7-OH Federally Schedule 1 as of 08-01-26

Didgital

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If someone else posted a thread on this my bad. As of July 1st 2026, the DEA has announced their intent to place 7-OH-Mitragynine, Mitragynine Pseudoindoxyl, MGM-15, and MGM-16 into emergency schedule 1 federally, across the board. This makes it illegal in all states and territories in the USA.
This puts it into the same category as heroin, cocaine, LSD, and other compounds deemed no medical value with high potential for abuse. I disagree that it has no medical value, but after being in the kratom industry, I would agree that it has a huge potential for abuse. I knew this was coming a long time ago, but threads like "Can I shoot 7-OH?" were a pretty clear warning that people were using it in a way thats not medicinal.


I guess stock up if it's your thing.
 
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spypilot said:
why not instead of criminalizing drugs and arresting users give them support when it starts to become a problem
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It's just not how humans work. Now is the era of punish, ostracize, shame etc. No fun allowed. Again, only upside. Won't last forever. These things are cyclical. We probably need a real calamity. World War, economic collapse etc to trigger the reset. Times are too stable in the West. They may not look stable. But compared to true catastrophe they are.
 
im not exactly expecting to buy oxy otc at walgreens or anything (though it would be nice :kisswink:)
how about all the shit that grows from the ground, that would be reasonable
and if they dont i will happily turn over my us citizenship and move to amsterdam at 18
 
Wow, I didn't expect this to happen so quickly. One bad apple really does spoil the whole bunch...

I'm not a fan of the opioid high, but damn, the only "regulated" (and I'm using that term very loosely) painkiller that actually has meaningful analgesic value is going to be gone. My personal favorite use for it was for a splitting headache. Take a low dose and poof, it's gone.

Shame on our government for making SR-17018 Schedule I as well.
 
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Didgital said:
If someone else posted a thread on this my bad. As of July 1st 2026, the DEA has announced their intent to place 7-OH-Mitragynine, Mitragynine Pseudoindoxyl, MGM-15, and MGM-16 into emergency schedule 1 federally, across the board. This makes it illegal in all states and territories in the USA.
This puts it into the same category as heroin, fentanyl, LSD, and other compounds deemed no medical value with high potential for abuse. I disagree that it has no medical value, but after being in the kratom industry, I would agree that it has a huge potential for abuse. I knew this was coming a long time ago, but threads like "Can I shoot 7-OH?" were a pretty clear warning that this was coming.


I guess stock up if it's your thing.
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What even is this science drug??
 
SoCalShordie said:
What even is this science drug??
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We extract mitragynine from kratom plant (mitragyna speciosa) which is a weak Mu opioid agonist, then we oxidize it and it becomes more potent than morphine. I'm told it's almost indistinguishable from morphine/heroin in effect but I've not tried either. It's HIGHLY addictive but in so many ways it's safer than traditional opiates as it doesn't affect the respiratory system the same way.
 
opiatekrzy said:
Does anybody have solid documentation that 7-oh just going to be scheduled one controlled substance? Or is all of this here say?
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WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration filed its intent to temporarily place 7-hydroxymitagynine (7-OH) and three related substances into Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). Prior to DEA issuing this notice, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed synthetic 7-OH, and the three related substances have no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.

Two Notices of Intent (NOI) were sent to the Federal Register on Wednesday, July 1, 2026. One NOI addresses 7-OH above a specified threshold. The second NOI addresses moving 7-hydroxymitragynine-related substances (mitragynine pseudoindoxyl, MGM-15, and MGM-16) into Schedule 1 of the CSA.

Once the temporary scheduling orders take effect, the manufacture, distribution, sale, and possession of covered 7-OH substances will become subject to criminal, civil, and administrative provisions of the Controlled Substances Act.
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  • The Notice Period: The DEA filed its official Notice of Intent on July 1, 2026. By law, the agency must wait at least 30 days after this notice before issuing the final order.
  • The Final Date: The final temporary scheduling order is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on or after August 5, 2026, at which point the criminal and civil bans take effect nationwide
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crazyotter87 said:
Wow, I didn't expect this to happen so quickly. One bad apple really does spoil the whole bunch...

I'm not a fan of the opioid high, but damn, the only "regulated" (and I'm using that term very loosely) painkiller that actually has meaningful analgesic value is going to be gone. My personal favorite use for it was for a splitting headache. Take a low dose and poof, it's gone.

Shame on our government for making SR-17018 Schedule I as well.
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quickly?? I was making 7-OH about 3 years ago, and it blew up very very quickly.
 
Didgital said:
quickly?? I was making 7-OH about 3 years ago, and it blew up very very quickly.
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Yeah I've been using it for about 4 years. I started using it about 2 years before it even started showing up in vape shops.

The DEA tried banning kratom a decade ago and it backfired. It seems the 7oh industry got out of control while the DEA remained hands off.

I am really indifferent towards making such a drug illegal. I don't think any drug necessarily deserves schedule 1... however, I also firmly believe the 7oh industry has become out of control. I think it may be harming more people than it helps at this point.

There is a big difference between selling reasonably dosed pills and the monstrosity of these new companies selling literal overdoses in a single pill. Its crazy where these companies took it.
 
Jung and Stoopid said:
I also firmly believe the 7oh industry has become out of control.
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Agreed. I work in the kratom industry and that vast amount of people I come into contact with are fucking total scumbags who want 1 thing. Your money. They do not care about your well being or safety.

Case in point I was working as a chemist for a company setting up a pretty large 7-oh factory (30kg/week) and what happened was this. I was using the synthetic oxone route which very simple, quick, and safe as long as you have good ventilation/no sparks. It provides a very consistent but medium yield of 50% at 63% purity. I'm pretty sure the main impurity was a heterodimer of mitragynine and a related structure which could have been hydrolyzed back into mitragynine simply refluxing in ethanol and HCL.

Another chemist came in alerted the owners that there was another synthetic route utilizing PIFA (Phenyliodine bis(trifluoroacetate) in acetonitrile (so toxic) which had a higher yield of 75-80% typically but creates a very nasty carcinogen called iodobenzene. I knew this way ahead of time. Due to this, in mid construction of the lab, I was fired (I also had issues with the owners cuz they were scumbags), they poached the team I had recruited, tore down what we had built and switched to the PIFA route spending several hundred thousand in the process. Well it turns out the other "chemist" didn't know how to remove iodobenzene in a cost effective manner. It took them several months to develop a process where it was non detect. In that time though, they sold it anyway to keep money flowing.

That's the kind of people that run this industry.

It turns out iodobenzene is unstable in UV 254nm. So the easy solution would have been to just run it through a continous clear line blasting it with UV light. I was tempted to call them and tell them this, but I was very bitter at the other chemist (an ex-rm of mine) and i loved watching him and the company flounder. (Maybe I could be more ethical too I dunno) But I loved watching the company fail, and shortly after they figured it out, the state I live in began to regulate 7, so I was laughing when I watched them spend millions to have to tear everything down and move it to Texas. They were operational for about a year before the federal ban was announced so they prolly made their money back. But last I heard, that company was on the brink of bankruptcy, which I still laugh at today, even right now.

I do believe in karma to an extent.

I do apologize for my role in popularizing the compound and contributing to addiction, but in the moment, I knew other people were gonna do it (probably cutting corners) and I wanted to do it right. That's not the first time I've influenced an entire industry and thus the world, and I doubt it will be my last.
 
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