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Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announces the state’s lawsuit against American Shaman in a press conference outside her office March 31, 2026 (Annelise Hanshaw\/Missouri Independent).<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway filed a <\/span>lawsuit<\/span><\/a> Tuesday against Kansas City-based CBD American Shaman and several affiliated companies, demanding an immediate halt to the company\u2019s advertising and sale of kratom products.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She takes particular aim at the more potent 7-OH products, which she argues are \u201chazardous opioids\u201d banned by state and federal law.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe want them to shut down American Shaman, and we named several of their related companies in the lawsuit, as soon as possible,\u201d Hanaway said at a press conference Tuesday, announcing the lawsuit, \u201cso that no more Missourians can be hurt or killed by this product.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Vincent Sanders, American Shaman\u2019s owner, told The Independent in an email statement that the company is aware of the lawsuit and \u201ctakes the matter seriously.\u201d Shaman was the first company to make and market 7-OH products.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have consistently maintained that our products are safe,\u201d Sanders said, \u201cand we have been transparent in sharing the scientific support and quality information behind them. We intend to defend this case and continue to serve our customers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Hanaway\u2019s lawsuit opens with a scathing description of Shaman\u2019s operations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a drug pusher clich\u00e9: The first hit is free,\u201d the lawsuit, which was filed in Jackson County Circuit Court, states. \u201cIt\u2019s also American Shaman\u2019s business model. But unlike a street dealer, American Shaman and its offshoots operate on an industrial scale, in the open, on the fiction that the products they sell are legal dietary supplements.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Hanaway cited examples of the company\u2019s advertisements for free samples of 7-OH on billboards and websites.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Proposed ban on 7-OH products hits bipartisan resistance in Missouri Senate<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Shaman Botanicals LLC is a leading supplier of 7-OH nationwide, which is sold in pill form and as an ingredient in drinks in stores and gas stations across the state. The name is short for 7-hydroxymitragynine, and it\u2019s made by chemically converting and then concentrating the main opioid-inducing element in kratom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMissourians, including those struggling with opioid addiction, are being dangerously misled into believing that 7-OH is predictable, safe and natural. This could not be more untrue,\u201d Hanaway said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Attorney General\u2019s Office, in collaboration with the Department of Health and Senior Services, is asking the court to declare American Shaman\u2019s practices illegal under the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act, to enjoin American Shaman from distributing kratom and 7-OH products and to penalize the companies $1,000 per violation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The suit also argues kratom and its alkaloids are \u201canalogues or homologues\u201d to Schedule I controlled substances under the Comprehensive Drug Control Act and should be treated like other opioids. She asks the court to shut down four Kansas City warehouses for those substances as a \u201cdrug den public nuisance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Sanders <\/span>told The Independent last year <\/span><\/a>that the company conducted three research studies on its products, including using rodents and <\/span>beagles<\/span><\/a>, which he believes shows the products are safe.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve spent an enormous amount of money and time on this,\u201d he said at the time, regarding the scientific studies. \u201cMy 82-year-old mother takes it twice a day. She was in so much pain\u2026 and it changed her life.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Aside from pain relief, Sanders has advocated in Washington, D.C. that the product can also be a harm reduction tool for people addicted to opioids.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hanaway\u2019s lawsuit follows her <\/span>investigation<\/span><\/a> into American Shaman\u2019s lab test results, research on health risks and safety label information, among other things. <\/span>The <\/span>Department of Justice announced in December<\/span><\/a> that it seized thousands of 7-OH products from American Shaman\u2019s warehouses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite these repeated warnings, Hanaway said American Shaman \u201chas continued its unlawful behavior\u201d and advertises \u201cfree samples\u201d of 7-OH despite its addictive nature, and frequently without disclosing the risk of addiction in its marketing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kratom leaves come from a tropical tree found in Southeast Asia, and they can be crushed and then smoked, brewed with tea, or placed into gel capsules.<\/span><\/p>\n

The leaves contain an alkaloid called mitragynine. During digestion, the body converts it into 7-hydroxymytragynine, or 7-OH, in small amounts. It\u2019s what gives people the opioid-like effect.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 7-OH products Hanaway is targeting contain a highly concentrated amount of 90% to 100%. To make it, companies take mitragynine and chemically oxidize it to make a concentrate.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Missouri warns consumers of health risks associated with 7-OH products<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Julie Weber, director of the Missouri Poison Control Center, said at Tuesday\u2019s press conference that 7-OH \u201cis not a harmless herbal product,\u201d and the center\u2019s hotline received more than 20 calls last year of people going into withdrawal after taking it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Justin Bumbalough, executive director of the Rolla faith-based recovery program Life Changers Missouri, said today at the press conference he\u2019s seeing cases where people are \u201cswapping additions\u201d from opioids to 7-OH.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are witnessing overdose, relapse,\u201d he said, \u201cand people trying to get free from addiction are ending up right back into the same trap, right back into the same bondage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

People he had been ministering to about opioids are, he said, \u201cnot with us today because of the 7-OH kratom epidemic.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hanaway said Missouri lawmakers are currently debating bills to ban 7-OH, and it\u2019s a \u201cconstant battle\u201d to keep up with drugs \u201cas they morph from one to another.\u201d However, the legislation she was referring to derailed last week when it ran into <\/span>bipartisan resistance over the proposed ban <\/span><\/a>on 7-OH.<\/span><\/p>\n

While she said she doesn\u2019t normally weigh in on legislation, she said 7-OH should be banned but she hasn\u2019t reached a conclusion on kratom yet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s an ongoing discussion, but the evidence is overwhelming that 7-OH is re-addicting people who are trying to recover from opioid addictions,\u201d she said, \u201caddicting for the first time people who think it\u2019s some safe natural product, and killing people. We have to put a stop to it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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