A Gram Is a Gram: The Rhode Island Limit Our Own Tablet Fails
Rhode Island is the only state that has ever reversed a kratom ban, and it wrote its rulebook in numbers. One of those numbers is half a milligram per gram,...
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What a Certificate of Analysis Proves, and Why We Publish the Lot That Failed
Lab tested commits a seller to nothing. A certificate of analysis commits them to a number, on a named lot, against a written specification. What one proves, what it cannot,...
What Is 7-OH? The Kratom Alkaloid Massachusetts Named
7-OH is a trace alkaloid in kratom leaf and the compound behind the federal filings. Massachusetts took a different route: from 28 August 2026 its order covers all forms, with...
Kratom Extract, Explained: Leaf, Extract, Isolate and Why the Age Line Landed at 21
Leaf, extract and isolate are three different products, and the label on the front settles none of it. What a kratom extract actually is, why potency pushed age limits to...
North Dakota Banned All Kratom, Not Just 7-OH
North Dakota's order names the whole plant, not a 7-OH threshold. What a whole-plant state ban means for extracts, and why the federal line does not apply.
Mitragynine Toxicity: What the Headlines Get Wrong (and Right)
Kratom poisonings are up 1,200% in a decade, and most headlines still miss the story. Detection vs causation, the synthetic 7-OH variable, and how informed consumers manage real risk.
