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ESSAY Mike Levin @MikeLevin
Kratom is a plant from Asia that hits the same brain receptors as opioids. People take it for energy or pain. It can be addictive and it can kill.
People buy it at gas stations, with no age check and no honest label.
Markwayne Mullin owns up to a million dollars in a kratom company. Then he stood at an FDA podium and pushed rules to crush that company’s rivals. He never sold the stock.
The company was founded by a felon who stole $10 million and did prison time. His kratom shots are tied to liver damage, seizures, and death. The stuff showed up in 5,200 overdose deaths in five years. A 27 year old grad student took it for six weeks and died. His mother says a real ban would have saved him.
You cannot make this up. The same company paid a Trump connected lobbyist $600,000.
Then the payoff. The Justice Department dropped its lawsuit. The FDA scrubbed the warnings off its website. RFK Jr. called Ohio’s governor to kill a state ban. And the company wired a million dollars to a PAC tied to Kennedy.
This is the swamp they swore to drain. It is worse than ever before.
NEW YORK TIMES GIFT ARTICLE
Kratom sales and possession become illegal in TN on 7/1/2026.
ICE Plumber Mullin’s ‘Gas Station Heroin’ Crackdown Protected His $1M Investment
EXCLUSIVE: New evidence undermines the Homeland Security secretary’s argument for shielding the “safer” form of kratom that he has a financial stake in.
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