[HN Gopher] Synthetic kratom is exploding in California
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       Synthetic kratom is exploding in California
        
       Author : tqi
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2025-10-14 20:52 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.sfgate.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.sfgate.com)
        
       | 0cf8612b2e1e wrote:
       | ... Florida banned 7-OH in August; in September,...
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       | Banned in Florida? It must be bad.
        
       | mtoner23 wrote:
       | Kratom is banned in Canada. We should at a minimum place it on
       | the schedule list and have it only be prescribed. It's sad that
       | these days all we can think to do with drugs is have them fully
       | commercially legal or completely banned.
        
       | tqi wrote:
       | How does a product like this make it to the market? Is this
       | article overstating the danger, or did everyone involved
       | (scientists, product folks, marketing folks, executives) just
       | ignore it?
        
       | hinkley wrote:
       | Ever so slightly disappointed that this story ended up being
       | about addiction and not about a strange compounding of kratom
       | that was spontaneously combusting.
        
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