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Dim convenience store shelving photographed at night, small bottles racked on the right and deep shadow to the left, under type reading Gas station heroin. Two drugs, one name.

Gas Station Heroin: Two Different Drugs Are Sha...

Kemal Whyte

FDA uses gas station heroin for tianeptine. The press uses it for concentrated 7-OH kratom products. They are different drugs with different legal status, and treating them as one makes...

Editorial banner reading nine states, then Massachusetts, over the question of where kratom is illegal, noting nine outright state bans and one temporary Massachusetts order placing all forms of kratom in Schedule I from 28 August 2026

Kratom Illegal in What States? Nine of Them, an...

Kemal Whyte

Kratom is illegal outright in nine states. Massachusetts adds a temporary Schedule I order on 28 August 2026, and it got there without a single vote.