Anti-Kratom Association

Kratom’s loudest opponent. Armed with evidence, unmoved by slogans, committed to public health.

[Anti-Kratom Association @AntiKratom]

Circle K does not need to moonlight as America’s neighborhood dispensary for foreign sourced, opioid active products.

And spare us the “harmless botanical” sermon. Botanic Tonics’ own court-submitted expert evidence discusses addiction, withdrawal, seizures, psychosis, liver & kidney injury, respiratory depression, cardiac arrest, overdose and death.

The industry’s own defense exhibits supply the warning label and perhaps respectable retailers should take the hint.

Tell Circle K: take kratom off the counter.

https://t.co/tOUq4qblPx

[Anti-Kratom Association @AntiKratom]

Are you happy now, @MomsForAmerica?

Kratom found in BOTH Ole Miss death investigations.

But thank God America’s epidemic of ultra-rare illnesses can still be treated by an Indonesian opioid-receptor agonist from a gas station.

And thank God our vape shops can continue their distinguished careers as unlicensed harm-reduction clinics.

This is the “access” you fought for.

https://t.co/2Dz45WGhxp

[Anti-Kratom Association @AntiKratom]

@TazKratomLove Sir, those are certainly all words. Enjoy the map.

[Anti-Kratom Association @AntiKratom]

Updated the U.S. Kratom Ban Map.

279 local kratom bans across 20 states.

Turns out citizens aren’t lining up to have smoke shops and gas stations cosplay as harm-reduction clinics.

Recent additions and bans uncovered in the audit:

📍 Burlington, MA
📍 Needles, CA
📍 Mariposa County, CA
📍 Shelly, MN — the first Minnesota local ban identified in our review

And the audit continues.

Funny how often “people don’t want bans” turns into another town, another county, another ban.

The map keeps getting redder.

🔎 https://t.co/QOftEGnMwt

[Anti-Kratom Association @AntiKratom]

@FloridaPoison Could you explain that to your attorney general

https://t.co/CdmAKHcprK

[Anti-Kratom Association @AntiKratom]

@BrennanforOhio
@mikemckellutah @JeffKlempKS @repcavitt

[Anti-Kratom Association @AntiKratom]

A “drug-free workplace” that doesn’t test for the psychoactive drug being used at work is just a slogan.

Ohio commenters identified themselves as cops, firefighters, nurses, truckers and equipment operators using kratom. Manufacturer-side science discusses sedation, impaired response time, seizures, psychosis and hallucinations.

The military prohibits it.

Everyone else?

Welcome to the Work-Free Drug Place.

https://t.co/y4IkOincac

[Anti-Kratom Association @AntiKratom]

@TheKratomAssn Probably not.

[Anti-Kratom Association @AntiKratom]

The Ohio Files are live.

Botanic Tonics went to court to defend kratom.

The resulting record is considerably more interesting than the sales pitch.

Their own expert testified about:
• Mu-opioid receptor activity
• Addiction and reward pathways
• Respiratory depression
• A marketplace with “significant toxicity and addiction problems”
• Concentrated kratom becoming “more like morphine”

Then the judge expressly cited the “addictive effects of mitragynine-related compounds” and the “possibility for abuse of kratom.”

Four parts. Court records. Their witnesses. Their words.

Read The Ohio Files:
https://t.co/BzbM1AJJ3K

Sometimes the most effective argument against an industry is the testimony it puts on the stand itself.

@BrennanforOhio @lorenzforohio @SusanManchester @BethListon @AnitaSomaniMD @SenRomanchuk @OhioSenateGOP

#OHLeg #OHPol #Kratom

[Anti-Kratom Association @AntiKratom]

Botanic Tonics marched into federal court waving “14 clinical trials” as evidence of kratom safety.

Utah’s State Chemist reviewed all 14.

His sworn assessment: “biased and containing incomplete data.”

One Feel Free study? Six days. Even their own expert admits that is “plainly not a long-term addiction study.”

And the FDA-funded study they cite? It found nausea, vomiting, somnolence, dizziness, presyncope, euphoric mood and measurable drug liking, “high,” and opioid-like effects.

impressive. Until somebody actually read them.

https://t.co/q9ru1mTmMX

[s eppard @Switchinz123]

Rensselaer County and Menands bans kratom highly addictive & deadly gas station drug https://t.co/jtzdHajlFV

[Anti-Kratom Association @AntiKratom]

Funny...they didn’t compare kratom to cheese.

Botanic Tonics own scientists discussed opioid receptors, opiate effects, addiction, withdrawal, seizures, organ toxicity, overdose and death.

Quite a grocery list.

@RonWyden #Kratom #utpol #utleg
https://t.co/QZC0FxLPM2

[Anti-Kratom Association @AntiKratom]

Botanic Tonics and GKC sued Utah and now tell the federal court mitragyna pseudoindoxyl (MP), a schedule I drug, is endogenous to natural kratom.

8 leaf products tested. 8 positive.

Botanic Tonics also had a positive MP result from its own kratom by September 2025.

Their kratom. Their testing. Their process. Their lawsuit.

Utah should send them a thank-you note for putting it all into PACER.

THE UTAH FILES — PART I: THE MP PROBLEM

https://t.co/8vbGO7sI0R

@mikemckellutah @gopTODD #utpol #utleg

[Anti-Kratom Association @AntiKratom]

We at the AntiKratom Association would like to formally apologize to Todd Underwood.

Todd was kind enough to leave multiple comments explaining that we apparently didn’t understand what a New Dietary Ingredient notification is.

We hate misunderstandings.

So we went back and studied and in the spirit of continuing education, we put the lesson to music.

We hope we’ve got it right this time.

https://t.co/URVXHdW3t5

[Anti-Kratom Association @AntiKratom]

Straight out of the tobacco playbook: Normalize the risk.
Create a false equivalence.
Change the subject.

Kratom safety concerns?

“But cheese can increase heart attack risk!”

And of all people, Jack Henningfield would know something about that playbook.

[American Kratom Association @TheKratomAssn]

Cheese can increase heart attack risk. We don't ban cheese. We educate consumers!

[Anti-Kratom Association @AntiKratom]

I sure hope when states vote to “regulate” kratom, somebody remembers to regulate the LEAD too.

Lawmakers in North Dakota just heard testimony about neonatal kratom withdrawal. Published reports document kratom use during pregnancy and newborns requiring morphine and clonidine for withdrawal.

Meanwhile, commercial kratom products have tested positive for measurable lead which crosses the placenta and is associated with spontaneous abortion, preterm delivery, low birth weight and impaired neurodevelopment.

So if your state chooses “regulation” over prohibition, here’s a question:

Who is testing every product for lead and who answers when a pregnant woman buys one that fails?

https://t.co/PNsqYtjr7g

[Anti-Kratom Association @AntiKratom]

Well, this is getting awkward.

Blackfoot, ID. Bingham County, ID. Bonneville County, ID. Naperville, IL.

Added to the ban tracker.

Meanwhile Rensselaer County, NY has a ban moving through the process.

Looks like these cities and counties aren’t buying the “all-natural miracle leaf” propaganda anymore.

The industry keeps talking.
The map keeps getting redder.

275 local bans. 19 states.

https://t.co/QOftEGnMwt

[Anti-Kratom Association @AntiKratom]

Here is the fda link

https://t.co/Q1Vfq75YYW

[Anti-Kratom Association @AntiKratom]

North Dakota lawmakers, you wrote the law. Now enforce it.

Kratom must list a “recommended serving” without deceiving consumers about a “safe or recommended” serving.

FDA already evaluated a company’s proposed 50 mg/day serving of dried kratom leaf.

FDA could NOT establish it was reasonably expected to be safe.

So ask every ND retailer:

What dose are YOU recommending and where is your evidence?

No evidence?

Get it off the shelf.

https://t.co/Rtnlhhxvbu

#NDPol #NDLeg