Steve Robinson
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It's like Walter White stuff.
It's not just mixing it together in your bathtub.
huge amounts of raw ingredients together with this chemical process, and you produce a concentrated version of 7-OH.
And it's specific to 7-OH.
It's not an extract or a concentration of kratom.
So you can concentrate a tincture of kratom just by soaking it in ethanol or something and getting a more potent version of kratom.
But 7-OH requires a very specific chemical process to go through.
So while it may begin with some kind of plant grown natural ingredient, your end result is really purely a synthetic drug.
And again, depending on who you ask and how you measure, it's many multiples more potent than morphine.
And it's an opioid.
It works on the same receptors in your brain.
It's
The dosages that someone who is a habitual fentanyl or prescription opioid user would be familiar with are hard to determine when it comes to 7-OH.
There's not a lot of testing.
There's not a lot of, I mean, there's no regulatory oversight of this.
It's not like FDA approved.
There's not a lot known about it.
And it's a very recent phenomenon, very recent.
There are, I guess, disagreements as to how 7-OH really took off and became as popular as it is now.
Yes.