Policy Note: H.R. 8000 The “END 7-OH Act”

What H.R. 8000 does — and why the “synthetic” carve-out is the problem H.R. 8000 (Bilirakis, R-FL) amends Schedule I of the CSA to add 7-hydroxymitragynine, “including its synthetic equivalents,” while purporting to exempt 7-OH “naturally contained” in Mitragyna speciosa (kratom). The carve-out is the entire problem.  The term “synthetic equivalents” is undefined in the […]