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Detox 7oh

I’ve been taking 7oh for about half a year. 4-5 20mg tabs a day. I want to be done and I’m so fucking scared. I’ve experienced withdrawal/ extreme discomfort and pain after running low. How do I safely and comfortably get this Sh*t out of my system? Thank you in advance!

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u/glam_banana — 9 hours ago
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Mit definitely works for mgm wds

First day with out mgm i took 300mg of mit from these 100mg mit drinks that they sell at the smoke shop. Leaf powder and the drinks really helped me after the damn ban oh and ketamine helped allot as well I thought id share this as I was freaked out nothing would work.

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u/TrustEnvironmental81 — 7 hours ago
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The official government comment page for 7-OH is live

If you care about the future of 7-OH, this is the page that matters. Whether it's helped you with pain, you've used it as part of harm reduction or you simply believe regulation makes more sense than prohibition, take a few minutes to leave a respectful comment. Real experiences and thoughtful feedback can help decision makers understand the impact these policies have on actual people. If you've been waiting for the right time to speak up, this is it.

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u/Disastrous_Day_1033 — 5 hours ago
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My column upset the American Kratom Association

I shared my column yesterday in this sub about how banning 7-oh will ruin my life. In the column I specifically called out the AKA for their role in pushing for the 7-oh ban.

The AKA was NOT happy, and they wrote a response letter, which PNN published yesterday.

(Here’s a link to my original column).

I’m honestly happy to learn that I at least annoyed them. And they ARE scared that consumers will boycott the companies that support them, which I called for in my column.

The person who the AKA had write the response is Mac Haddow, a “Senior Fellow on Public Policy with the American Kratom Association.”

Haddow IS responding to comments on the actual article — so I encourage everyone to go there and comment about why this ban is so horrible. The AKA is reading them!

The AKA needs to know that people are blaming THEM for this ban and that we will not support products made by the companies that support them.

I always say if you can’t win, at least make them have to put up a fight.

Here’s the AKA’s full response to my column:

Banning 7-OH Will Save Lives
July 06, 2026
(Editor’s Note: Last week the DEA said it would classify concentrated versions of the kratom alkaloid 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) as illegal Schedule One controlled substances. In response, PNN’s Crystal Lindell — a 7-OH consumer — wrote an op/ed sharply critical of the DEA’s decision and the role played by the American Kratom Association (AKA), which lobbied for the move. The column below is the AKA’s response.)  
By Mac Haddow
I do not question the sincerity of Ms. Lindell in her Op-Ed describing her personal experience or the seriousness of the pain she describes. No one should minimize the suffering of chronic pain patients, and no one should dismiss the fear that comes when a person believes the product they rely on may no longer be available.
But that does not change the core issue: the Controlled Substances Act was enacted to protect consumers from dangerous drug products — not to punish consumers. When manufacturers create, market, and sell products that present a significant threat to public safety, federal law exists to intervene. 
That is exactly what has happened with chemically manipulated 7-OH opioid products.
The blame for this situation does not rest with the American Kratom Association, natural kratom leaf consumers, regulators, or anyone advocating for responsible consumer protections. The blame lies entirely at the feet of the 7-OH manufacturers who deliberately bypassed federal law and basic safety requirements in pursuit of profits.
These companies did not follow the required pathways for market entry. They did not submit lawful safety data. They did not comply with the federal requirements that exist to protect consumers from dangerous drug products. 
They took a naturally occurring trace alkaloid found in kratom leaf and chemically manipulated it into highly concentrated 7-OH-dominant opioid products, then pushed those products into the marketplace without the guardrails that would apply to any legitimate opioid drug product.
Worse, they deceived hundreds of thousands of natural kratom leaf consumers into believing they were purchasing ordinary kratom products. They traded on the reputation of natural kratom leaf while selling products that are fundamentally different in formulation, potency, pharmacology, and risk. 
That deception has harmed consumers, undermined legitimate kratom regulation, and placed the entire natural kratom community at risk.
The American Kratom Association does not advocate for the purchase of any kratom product. The AKA advocates for consumer protection. That means support for policies requiring safely formulated natural kratom leaf products, proper labeling, age restrictions, contaminant testing, responsible manufacturing standards, and clear limits that prevent dangerous adulteration or chemical manipulation.
The companies you criticize for supporting the AKA are not being defended because they sell products. They are companies willing to support lobbying efforts to protect consumers through rational regulation. That is very different from the 7-OH manufacturers who chose to evade federal requirements, push chemically manipulated opioid products into gas stations and smoke shops, and then claim that enforcement against them is somehow an attack on personal freedom.
It is not.
No responsible public health policy would support allowing consumers to buy opioids from drug dealers on a street corner simply because some adults may want access to them. The same principle applies here. 
Chemically manipulated 7-OH products are opioids. They should not be easily available to anyone through retail channels with no medical supervision, no lawful drug approval, no verified safety profile, no abuse-liability controls, and no meaningful consumer protections.
This is not a debate over bodily autonomy in the abstract. It is a debate over whether manufacturers can bypass the law, create concentrated opioid products, market them as “kratom,” and sell them broadly to consumers without meeting the same safety standards that apply to other opioid products.
Alcohol and tobacco are not a justification for repeating another public health failure. The existence of dangerous legal products does not mean the government should ignore a new class of chemically manipulated opioid products being sold without adequate oversight. It means policymakers should act before the harm becomes larger.
The most important distinction is this: natural kratom leaf products and chemically manipulated 7-OH opioid products are not the same. The AKA has fought for years to protect access to natural kratom leaf for responsible adult consumers. That work is directly threatened by 7-OH manufacturers who blurred the line between kratom and opioids for profit.
Ms. Lindell's anger should be directed at the companies that created this crisis. They put consumers like her in this position. They entered the market unlawfully. They misled consumers. They ignored safety standards. They gambled with public health. And now they want natural kratom advocates to absorb the blame for the consequences of their own conduct.
The AKA will continue to support access to properly regulated natural kratom leaf products. But it will not defend chemically manipulated opioid products masquerading as kratom. Protecting consumers means drawing that line clearly — and enforcing it.
That is not betrayal.
That is responsible advocacy.
Mac Haddow is a Senior Fellow on Public Policy with the American Kratom Association.

u/Barbies309 — 13 hours ago
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Opioid deaths decreased when 7OH use increased, according to a study done by HART.

In June 2025, a study conducted by the Holistic Alternative Recovery Trust (HART) found that opioid overdose deaths decreased when 7OH use increased.

7OH is a partial agonist opioid, which means that it does not fully activate the opioid receptors 100% like other opioids do. This makes it FAR SAFER than the substances it’s being compared to.

The only recorded overdoses involving 7OH have involved other substances as well, and even then there’s not many. Look up the data yourself.

THOUSANDS die from fentanyl overdose EVERY DAY. 7OH has saved thousands of lives by giving people an alternative to fentanyl and other street drugs. With this ban, many may go back to their full agonist drug of choice, which could cause a wave of overdoses.

With this data, the ban makes no sense. The only reasons for this ban that would make sense is that it’s cutting into pharmaceutical companies’ profits. The AKA has a lot to do with this decision as well, which I honestly see as a betrayal. They have been fully bought out at this point and it’s sad.

We are in the “public comment” stage of the proposed ban. Our voices mean more than ever right now. Write something, anything, regarding how 7OH has helped you, and post it on 7 Hope Alliances website and on every social media you can find. If we stand together, we might have a chance to turn this around. When they first tried banning kratom, enough people spoke up to change the decision. Please speak up.

7 Hope Alliance is holding a zoom call tonight 7/7 at 7pmET. Please register to join, even if you don’t speak the number of people in the call will speak for itself. This is one of the biggest opportunities to have our voices heard.

Link to 7 Hope Alliance’s statement: https://7hopealliance.org/federal/

Direct link to register for the call: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN\_whd6nfN6TRGlLZmU50V4Yg#/registration

You are not alone. Let’s stand together and try to stay positive.

Love to you all.

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u/guavagremlin — 10 hours ago
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SOON TO BE LAWYER FLOOD DEA WEBSITE TODAY WHEN THEY RELEASE THE SCHEDULING DOCKET OF 7-oh, MGM, PSEDO, AND KRATOM EXTRACTS, DOWN BELOW IS A SCIENTFIC JOURNAL I WROTE .SCREAM AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS AND THEY WILL HAVE TO LISTEN, MESSAGE YOUR SENATORS AND YOUR REPS THEY WANT TO GET ELECTED AGAIN REMB

SOON TO BE LAWYER FLOOD DEA WEBSITE TODAY WHEN THEY RELEASE THE SCHEDULING DOCKET OF 7-oh, MGM, PSEDO, AND KRATOM EXTRACTS, DOWN BELOW IS A SCIENTFIC JOURNAL I WROTE .SCREAM AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS AND THEY WILL HAVE TO LISTEN, MESSAGE YOUR SENATORS AND YOUR REPS THEY WANT TO GET ELECTED AGAIN REMB

IM A SOON TO BE LAWYER FLOOD THEM WITH THIS MEDICAL JOURNAL I WORTE WE CAN FIGHT THIS. THEIR LAWYERS HAVE TO LISTEN TO SCIENTFICLY PROVEN INFO SO THATS WHAT I GAVE THEM .Regarding: DEA Notices of Intent, Proposed Temporary Scheduling of 7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)
Docket ID: [Insert Docket Number from Regulations.gov

 once published on July 6]
To Whom It May Concern,
I am writing to urge the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to reject the proposed Schedule I designation for 7-hydroxymitragynine, known as 7-OH. As a citizen who watches the devastating impact of the overdose crisis on families and neighborhoods every day, I believe that an outright ban is a catastrophic mistake. Instead of repeating the failed, punitive strategies of the past, our government must protect people by implementing strict federal manufacturing regulations, age limits, and safety standards.
When we look at the history of public health in America, it is clear that heavy handed prohibition creates the exact tragedies it claims to prevent. Sociological research consistently demonstrates that abruptly criminalizing an accessible substance does not make demand disappear, it simply transfers that market entirely to illicit networks. This dangerous reality is known as the Iron Law of Prohibition. When law enforcement suppresses a lower potency or plant based market, it creates an immediate economic and logistical incentive for traffickers to manufacture and distribute much more compact, highly concentrated, and lethal synthetic alternatives to evade detection.
We have already seen the horrific human cost of this policy failure. When the federal government cracked down on prescription opioids in the mid 2010s without establishing safe, regulated alternatives, patients were abruptly cut off. Peer reviewed studies show that this supply side intervention forced vulnerable people onto the streets, causing a massive market substitution toward illicit heroin and lethal, adulterated fentanyl. Banning 7-OH will trigger this exact same pattern. It will strip away consumer transparency, eliminate third party laboratory testing, and force everyday people to turn to unregulated, toxic street supplies.As

  a result you will see tens of thousands of people packing hospitals and the government will then have to provide them an alternative, ie suboxone, methadone etc, which are nearly impossible to get off of unlike 7oh or even mgm-15.  This is clinically true as the half life of suboxone and methadone are notoriously long and much more potent as they also cause a much stronger physical dependence based on methadone and suboxone’s pharmacological profile.
Please do not allow our federal agencies to abandon their regulatory duties. We need real, compassionate guardrails like the Kratom Consumer Protection Act, which enforces strict product labeling and bans sales to minors, rather than a criminal ban that will only expand the prison industrial complex.
On a deeply personal note, this ban will severely damage the lives of thousands of Americans. Myself, several of my family members, and countless others rely on 7-OH and botanical kratom derivatives to survive agonizing conditions, such as severe herniated discs, neuropathy, and chronic trauma. Because of the current climate of regulatory fear surrounding traditional prescription painkillers, hospitals now routinely discharge post surgical patients with nothing more than ibuprofen and Tylenol. This draconian practice leaves patients in an unimaginable state of suffering, sometimes to the point of severe psychological distress and suicidal ideation purely due to unmanaged physical agony. As a personal annecdoteI have experienced this inhumane practice first hand when I had a ORIF surgery on my hand which is a open reduction and internal fixation which if you don’t know they drill metal into your bones,they wouldnt give me anything except tylenol and ibuprofen even as I was writhing in pain like a sick dog for over 2 months, actually contemplating suicide as a viable way to end the physical  pain of the metal sticking out of my hand through a literal open wound. 
Adequate pain management must be recognized as a fundamental human right, not a conditional privilege. It is profoundly disheartening that in an era of unprecedented medical and technological advancement, we are actively regressing in our basic standard of care, abandoning patients to their suffering in a way that would not have been acceptable even a century ago. When doctors are terrified by the DEA to treat acute pain, accessible botanicals are the only lifeline patients have left.
I urge you to look at the scientific and historical data, listen to the agonizing human experiences of this community, and choose regulation over a prohibition that will undeniably cost human lives. Do not take away the one safe, legal avenue we have left for bodily autonomy and relief.

Sincerely,
A constituent whose quality of life depends entirely on safe, legal access from 3rd party LAB tested sources.

PEER REVIEWED SOURCES and SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF WHAT EACH OF THEM COVER IF YOU READ THEM.
On Policy Failures and Forced Market Substitution:
Green, T. C., et al. (2022). "The effects of opioid policy changes on transitions from prescription opioids to heroin or fentanyl." Public Health Reports. This study outlines how supply side crackdowns on prescription medications directly accelerated the transition to highly lethal street fentanyl, showing the unintended harms of rigid prohibition policies.
On the Iron Law of Prohibition and Fentanyl:
Ciccarone, D. (2017). "Today’s fentanyl crisis: Prohibition’s Iron Law, revisited." International Journal of Drug Policy. This paper uses the historical lessons of alcohol prohibition to explain how modern anti drug enforcement creates intense economic pressures that favor increasingly potent, compact, and deadly synthetic substitutes.
On the Economic Impact of Suppressing Substitutes:
Alpert, A., et al. (2021). "Supply Side Drug Policy in the Presence of Substitutes: Evidence from the Reformulation of OxyContin." Journal of Health Economics. This research proves that restricting access to a managed substance caused a direct, causal spike in illicit market overdose deaths due to users being forced to substitute with dangerous street alternatives. Since some dummy said this reads like a cooker rant here is how we stall their investigation through the courts. We can argue that the DEA is overstepping its statutory authority by classifying a naturally occurring alkaloid (7-OH) as a "synthetic" Schedule I drug simply because of its concentration**:BOTTOM LINE TRUTHFULLY ,** If the threshold is set specifically to protect products like Feel Free (Mullin's investment) while banning competitors, it lacks scientific basis. Proving the threshold was drawn based on market protection rather than safety data is a winning legal argument anyday of the week in a JUST COURT.Also,While not neccassarily a legal argument per se, public pressure regarding Secretary Mullin's $1M conflict of interest can force an Inspector General investigation or Congressional inquiry, which can stall the scheduling process.

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u/YUNGRIDAH — 1 day ago
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SOON TO BE LAWYER FLOOD DEA WEBSITE TODAY WHEN THEY RELEASE THE SCHEDULING DOCKET OF 7-oh, MGM, PSEDO, AND KRATOM EXTRACTS, DOWN BELOW IS A SCIENTFIC JOURNAL I WROTE .SCREAM AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS AND THEY WILL HAVE TO LISTEN, MESSAGE YOUR SENATORS AND YOUR REPS THEY WANT TO GET ELECTED AGAIN REMB

SOON TO BE ATTORNEY FLOOD DEA WEBSITE TODAY WHEN THEY RELEASE THE SCHEDULING DOCKET OF 7-oh, MGM, PSEDO, AND KRATOM EXTRACTS, DOWN BELOW IS A SCIENTFIC JOURNAL I WROTE .SCREAM AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS AND THEY WILL HAVE TO LISTEN, MESSAGE YOUR SENATORS AND YOUR REPS THEY WANT TO GET ELECTED AGAIN REMB

IM A SOON TO BE LAWYER FLOOD THEM WITH THIS MEDICAL JOURNAL I WORTE WE CAN FIGHT THIS. THEIR LAWYERS HAVE TO LISTEN TO SCIENTFICLY PROVEN INFO SO THATS WHAT I GAVE THEM .Regarding: DEA Notices of Intent, Proposed Temporary Scheduling of 7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)
Docket ID: [Insert Docket Number from Regulations.gov

 once published on July 6]
To Whom It May Concern,
I am writing to urge the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to reject the proposed Schedule I designation for 7-hydroxymitragynine, known as 7-OH. As a citizen who watches the devastating impact of the overdose crisis on families and neighborhoods every day, I believe that an outright ban is a catastrophic mistake. Instead of repeating the failed, punitive strategies of the past, our government must protect people by implementing strict federal manufacturing regulations, age limits, and safety standards.
When we look at the history of public health in America, it is clear that heavy handed prohibition creates the exact tragedies it claims to prevent. Sociological research consistently demonstrates that abruptly criminalizing an accessible substance does not make demand disappear, it simply transfers that market entirely to illicit networks. This dangerous reality is known as the Iron Law of Prohibition. When law enforcement suppresses a lower potency or plant based market, it creates an immediate economic and logistical incentive for traffickers to manufacture and distribute much more compact, highly concentrated, and lethal synthetic alternatives to evade detection.
We have already seen the horrific human cost of this policy failure. When the federal government cracked down on prescription opioids in the mid 2010s without establishing safe, regulated alternatives, patients were abruptly cut off. Peer reviewed studies show that this supply side intervention forced vulnerable people onto the streets, causing a massive market substitution toward illicit heroin and lethal, adulterated fentanyl. Banning 7-OH will trigger this exact same pattern. It will strip away consumer transparency, eliminate third party laboratory testing, and force everyday people to turn to unregulated, toxic street supplies.As

  a result you will see tens of thousands of people packing hospitals and the government will then have to provide them an alternative, ie suboxone, methadone etc, which are nearly impossible to get off of unlike 7oh or even mgm-15.  This is clinically true as the half life of suboxone and methadone are notoriously long and much more potent as they also cause a much stronger physical dependence based on methadone and suboxone’s pharmacological profile.
Please do not allow our federal agencies to abandon their regulatory duties. We need real, compassionate guardrails like the Kratom Consumer Protection Act, which enforces strict product labeling and bans sales to minors, rather than a criminal ban that will only expand the prison industrial complex.
On a deeply personal note, this ban will severely damage the lives of thousands of Americans. Myself, several of my family members, and countless others rely on 7-OH and botanical kratom derivatives to survive agonizing conditions, such as severe herniated discs, neuropathy, and chronic trauma. Because of the current climate of regulatory fear surrounding traditional prescription painkillers, hospitals now routinely discharge post surgical patients with nothing more than ibuprofen and Tylenol. This draconian practice leaves patients in an unimaginable state of suffering, sometimes to the point of severe psychological distress and suicidal ideation purely due to unmanaged physical agony. As a personal annecdoteI have experienced this inhumane practice first hand when I had a ORIF surgery on my hand which is a open reduction and internal fixation which if you don’t know they drill metal into your bones,they wouldnt give me anything except tylenol and ibuprofen even as I was writhing in pain like a sick dog for over 2 months, actually contemplating suicide as a viable way to end the physical  pain of the metal sticking out of my hand through a literal open wound. 
Adequate pain management must be recognized as a fundamental human right, not a conditional privilege. It is profoundly disheartening that in an era of unprecedented medical and technological advancement, we are actively regressing in our basic standard of care, abandoning patients to their suffering in a way that would not have been acceptable even a century ago. When doctors are terrified by the DEA to treat acute pain, accessible botanicals are the only lifeline patients have left.
I urge you to look at the scientific and historical data, listen to the agonizing human experiences of this community, and choose regulation over a prohibition that will undeniably cost human lives. Do not take away the one safe, legal avenue we have left for bodily autonomy and relief.

Sincerely,
A constituent whose quality of life depends entirely on safe, legal access from 3rd party LAB tested sources.

PEER REVIEWED SOURCES and SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF WHAT EACH OF THEM COVER IF YOU READ THEM.
On Policy Failures and Forced Market Substitution:
Green, T. C., et al. (2022). "The effects of opioid policy changes on transitions from prescription opioids to heroin or fentanyl." Public Health Reports. This study outlines how supply side crackdowns on prescription medications directly accelerated the transition to highly lethal street fentanyl, showing the unintended harms of rigid prohibition policies.
On the Iron Law of Prohibition and Fentanyl:
Ciccarone, D. (2017). "Today’s fentanyl crisis: Prohibition’s Iron Law, revisited." International Journal of Drug Policy. This paper uses the historical lessons of alcohol prohibition to explain how modern anti drug enforcement creates intense economic pressures that favor increasingly potent, compact, and deadly synthetic substitutes.
On the Economic Impact of Suppressing Substitutes:
Alpert, A., et al. (2021). "Supply Side Drug Policy in the Presence of Substitutes: Evidence from the Reformulation of OxyContin." Journal of Health Economics. This research proves that restricting access to a managed substance caused a direct, causal spike in illicit market overdose deaths due to users being forced to substitute with dangerous street alternatives. Since some dummy said this reads like a cooker rant here is how we stall their investigation through the courts. We can argue that the DEA is overstepping its statutory authority by classifying a naturally occurring alkaloid (7-OH) as a "synthetic" Schedule I drug simply because of its concentration**:BOTTOM LINE TRUTHFULLY ,** If the threshold is set specifically to protect products like Feel Free (Mullin's investment) while banning competitors, it lacks scientific basis. Proving the threshold was drawn based on market protection rather than safety data is a winning legal argument anyday of the week in a JUST COURT.Also,While not neccassarily a legal argument per se, public pressure regarding Secretary Mullin's $1M conflict of interest can force an Inspector General investigation or Congressional inquiry, which can stall the scheduling process.

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u/YUNGRIDAH — 1 day ago
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Gonna be placing my first order

Is 7ohmitdistro 100% legit? Gonna place my first order but most places i order from you just checkout with your card but I see on their site they invoice you for the payment. Is it a smooth process? Easy? How fast do they ship after I pay the invoice?

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u/inthemix100 — 21 hours ago
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My column on how the ban will ruin my life

I wrote a column for the Pain News Network on how the coming ban will ruin my life.

The related Facebook post that Pain News Network did for the column has over 200 comments. Lots of people are rightly upset about the coming ban.

I also specifically call out the AKA in the second half and I call for a boycott of companies that support them.

I plan to do a lot more writing on this topic in the coming month.

Here’s the text of the article:

Banning 7-OH Will Ruin My Life
July 03, 2026
 By Crystal Lindell
When I got the news that 7-OH will likely be illegal in the United States within the next month, I was on a break at the new job I was able to get because of 7-OH.
I opened my texts to see a message from PNN editor Pat Anson:
7-OH to be banned nationwide in early August according to DEA filings.”
He’s always been great at breaking news. 
When I saw the words though, I wanted to throw up. I started shaking and was overcome by a cold sweat. Then I fought back tears because I had to get back to work.  
I had to get over the shock and dissociate to get through the rest of my shift at the gas station where I work. I spent the next few hours legally selling customers cigarettes, beer, and lottery tickets. 
Then I went into my car and cried.  
7-OH has truly been a life-changing drug for me and many people I know and love.
I have intercostal neuralgia, which is nerve damage in my ribs. When you have the same thing in your face it’s called trigeminal neuralgia – which is colloquially called the “suicide disease” because so many people who have it kill themselves or want to.
As someone with the intercostal variety, I’m here to tell you that having that kind of pain in your ribs doesn’t make it any less horrible. I have long considered suicide as a potential treatment option.
For many years I was able to find some semblance of stability with a cocktail of opioid and OTC pain medications. I know how lucky I am to be among those who can still get an opioid prescription. But while the opioids have kept the suicidal-level pain at bay, they have never allowed me to actually live.
7-OH does that.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that it has given me my life back. It’s been even more effective than hydrocodone or morphine for me. It instantly treats my pain while also combating fatigue. 
Losing access to 7-OH will be devastating for me. 
I am worried I will no longer be able to work full-time, and that I will then lose the health insurance I only just got. Without work and insurance, I will be back to living below the poverty line, and relying on food pantries. 
But none of that has anything to do with why I think 7-OH should remain legal.
7-OH should remain legal because – as an adult – I should have the legal right to put whatever I want into my own body, and it is no one else’s business how I do that.
That’s it. That’s the only reason needed. Anything else is irrelevant.
This is a bodily autonomy issue. I should be the only one who controls my own body, especially my own medical decisions. 
Not to mention the fact that nicotine and alcohol are legal despite the fact that they are both very addictive and sometimes deadly. Why single 7-OH out? Especially considering how safe it is in comparison to those drugs. 
AKA Betrayal.
What’s worse is the outright glee from some leaf kratom advocates, who think banning 7-OH will somehow let them be seen as the golden child.
I feel so betrayed by them. The American Kratom Association in particular pushed for this and they have made a deal with the devil. When 7-OH is banned nationwide, it’s likely that leaf kratom is next. It’s already happened in several states.
I will never again use a single kratom product from any of the companies that support the AKA.
For now, I plan to taper down and hopefully get off 7-OH without going into withdrawal. And I am going to look into different substances that may give me a similar effect. 
I’m also hopeful that the 7-OH manufacturers are working on new formulations of kratom alkaloids that will still be available after the ban. 
And I am clinging to the 1% chance that the DEA backtracks on this, as they did in 2016, after initially announcing plans to make mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine illegal Schedule One drugs. 
I know we cannot count on that though.
Honestly, writing this column feels futile. I know it won’t do anything to stop the ban on 7-OH from coming. But I do feel it’s important to at least create a record of my objections. 
I want it plainly stated that a ban on 7-OH will be detrimental to my life, and to the lives of thousands of others who have found relief from this drug.
But how do I convince people to care about my life? Why do I even have to do so? Shouldn’t caring about other people’s well-being be something that comes naturally?
It’s degrading that I have to beg the world for pain relief. That I have to plead for a medication that allows me to live my life, work a job, care for my cats, love my fiancé, and aid my elderly relatives.
It disgusts and depresses me that we live in a country that would deny me those things.

u/Barbies309 — 1 day ago
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Question about differences in 7Stax variations and new confusing labels...

So I bought a couple of these today and noticed they had them mixed on the rack and I got a regular Mitragynine with the others (I was specifically trying to grab the alkaloid blend ones because they seem to be the only thing (local to me. I'm in FL. Have had great luck with MGM but can find it in local shops). So I was tryingntonuse this opportunity to compare ingredients and amounts... I noticed they also both had a white label that had a declaration of ingredients... but all the labels state the exact same amounts, even on the one that has "7Oh: 0.00 ppm" stamped on it. So I'm really confused on the declaration labels and how two variations, that I have been reading are DEFINITELY different formulas with different ingredients/amounts have this same label and what exactly these numbers are equal to in mgs. I just hate that every brand's MIT pills seem to be completely different formulas. I tried one because they were out of the 7Stax and it seems to be a very common, popular brand I have seen in shops and online right next to the 7Stax cards. I took 2 whole tablets of other (Dozo Perks) and still had withdrawal symptoms PLUS it seemed to give me different symptoms than 7Stax such as energy (which I was looking for relief from withdrawal insomnia and the pain that's a vicious cycle when combined with insomnia and the fact that I can't sit still when dealing withdrawal which just makes my muscles and body ache so much worse. I just don't like that I have no idea exactly what alkaloids and what doses I'm getting so I can take as little as possible for relief.

So besides the differences in these variations, does anyone know of some similar formulations I could try to get similar effect when the 7Stax aren't available or that may be less expensive. Or maybe even slightly more effective. Thanks for any info in advance.

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u/SeraphinaMoon — 24 hours ago
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Before I freak out and do a large order

Is it safe to safe most of the companies we like will host somewhat of a mega sale before the new laws go into effect?

I understand we still have hope that these don't get banned, but in case they do, I just don't want to get caught buying a lot now only to miss out on what could be the largest sale we've ever seen.

What do you guys think?

(Edit: Not trying to sound greedy, just trying to be a smart shopper is all, I obviously wish all the companies we know and love continued success)

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u/CourtMobile6490 — 1 day ago