Attorney General James Uthmeier says Florida is immediately banning the substance 7-OH , an acronym for hydroxymitragynine.

Uthmeier said he is invoking an executive order to ban the drug, which he says is an extension of the opioid crisis. The drug 7-OH was readily available at smoke shops, vape stores, convenience stores and gas stations before the ban in Florida. It is a derivative of the plant Kratom , which is cultivated generally in Asian countries and has been drawing increasing attention as use of the substance is growing.

“We are taking executive action to prohibit and reschedule 7-OH. It is chemically manipulated in a way to where it is actually very dense and actually, I’m told by medical experts, it can be up to 13 times more potent than morphine” Uthmeier said at a

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