TAMPA - Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Wednesday during a press conference in Tampa that his office is taking emergency action to prohibit "7-hydroxymitragynine," often called "7-OH", in the state of Florida.

This move reclassifies it as a schedule 1 drug just weeks after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took action.

The backstory:

7-OH is a new synthetic material that is extracted from Kratom which is a Southeast Asian coffee plant.

Uthmeier says that 7-OH can be up to 13 times more potent than morphine and FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary says that the crisis is right in front of us.

"It is an opioid, it scientifically meeting the criteria of an opioid and yet you can go in a vape shop in America almost on any corner and buy it like a cup of coffee," Mak

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