OPINION — In December 2025, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes delivered a warning most parents never saw. Products sold as “kratom” or “all-natural” supplements at gas stations, smoke shops and convenience stores across the state, she said, are often laced with concentrated synthetic compounds strong enough to act like street opioids.
These often go by the street names “gas station heroin” or “legal morphine.”
Arizona’s Kratom Consumer Protection Act bans the selling of kratom to anyone under 18 and caps how much of the synthetic compound 7-hydroxymitragynine, or 7-OH, a product can legally contain.
