By Jason Hancock | Editor-in-Chief
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Missouri’s fight over increasingly potent kratom products has mostly played out in courtrooms, convenience stores and the attorney general’s office.
Now the federal government is stepping in.
The DEA this week took action against three powerful kratom-related compounds, a move with immediate consequences for one Kansas City company already at the center of Missouri’s crackdown.
Rebecca Rivas has the latest on where the fight goes from here.
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by Rebecca Rivas
Federal regulators placed three potent kratom-related opioids in Schedule I as Missouri continues its own fight over 7-OH.
(Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent)
by Rudi Keller
Kurt Schaefer, director of the Department of Natural Resources and a former state Senate Appropriations Committee chairman, will become Commissioner of Administration.
(Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector)
COMMENTARY
by Patrick Tuohey
Kansas City leaders can seem contemptuous of the voters they answer to. The Royals stadium deal, pushed through without a public vote, is the latest example.
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