One quick Google search revealed loads of 7OH vapes.

https://7oh.com/collections/7oh-disposable-vapes

Maybe I misspoke by saying “smoking” when I should have said “vaping”, but either way, my point that it is a strong and immediate delivery system compared to taking Kratom orally still stands.

I agree that 70H should be regulated and sold to informed adults who want it. I also think it needs to be out of the gas stations.

On the podcast, they said that the laws had been written to specifically target the concentrated 7OH and leave the Kratom industry alone. I don’t know if that changed since the podcast episode 3 months or so ago.

7OH is not Kratom in the same way that crack is not the coca leaf. 7OH is a concentrated smokable product derived from the Kratom leaf that affects the user very suddenly and much more strongly.

Normally I’d agree, but I actually think banning 7OH is one of the only decent things they’ve done in this administration. It is a smokeable opiate that is on par with the strength of morphine and it is incredibly addictive. It is currently able to be sold to 18 year olds, and there is not good information being provided about its addictive potential.

I watch a podcast with a man named Goblin who does drug reviews and he talked to the CEO of the largest 7OH manufacturer. The CEO straight up admitted to being addicted to his own product, being aware that a large portion of consumers were getting hooked on opiates for the first time from it, and told Goblin to keep his mouth shut so he wouldn’t ruin the goldmine. Needless to say, Goblin ended up not trying that product and spilled the beans to his audience.

I have personally been addicted to opiates before. Kicking them is painful and extremely difficult, and I don’t think I could have quit if I could have just gone to a corner store and picked up smokable morphine. Even after over a decade clean, I felt the small pull of temptation when I became aware of the existence of 7OH.

I’m all for legalizing drugs, but putting them in gas stations and making them available to 18 year olds with no warning of the addictive potential is not the answer. It needs to be done safely, and until then, we don’t need to flood the streets with unregulated opiates.