A Challenge To Florida's 7-OH Ban Is Rejected

-- News Service of Florida -- Siding with Attorney General James Uthmeier’s Office, an administrative law Judge dismissed a challenge to an emergency rule banning the sale and manufacture of a concentrated byproduct of kratom, known as 7-OH. Uthmeier’s Office issued a rule in August prohibiting the alkaloid 7-hydroxymitragynine, known as 7-OH, and adding it to the list of the state’s most dangerous drugs, saying the ban was needed “to avoid an imminent hazard to the public safety.” Two businesses and six users of the substance filed a challenge with the Division of Administrative Hearings, alleging that the emergency regulation was invalid, in part, because Uthmeier’s Office failed to follow proper procedures and to provide findings justifying the need for the rule.