Image credits

Every image we publish carries its author and licence underneath it. This page collects them, so you can check the lot without opening every article.

14 images in total. 9 of them are AI-generated, labelled as such wherever they appear, and never used to depict a document, a chart or a person.

• Homepage heroHridoy Bangladesh, Pexels Licence. Source, retrieved 20 Aug 2026.
• Kratom and driving: one state convicts on a detectable trace, and the evidence is ten driversIllustration, generated with Google Gemini.
  The prompt used

  Create an abstract illustration in the Economists artstyle, while using the wikikratom.com color scheme, base the illustration on the contents of this article: [the text of “Kratom and driving: one state convicts on a detectable trace, and the evidence is ten drivers”]
• The 7-OH fight is an argument about a number, and the number has not been setIllustration, generated with Google Gemini.
  The prompt used

  Create an abstract illustration in the Economists artstyle, while using the wikikratom.com color scheme, base the illustration on the contents of this article: [the text of “The 7-OH fight is an argument about a number, and the number has not been set”]
• Six states have a Kratom Consumer Protection Act, and no two of them are the same lawIllustration, generated with Google Gemini.
  The prompt used

  Create an abstract illustration in the Economists artstyle, while using the wikikratom.com color scheme, base the illustration on the contents of this article: [the text of “Five states have a Kratom Consumer Protection Act, and no two of them are the same law”]
• DEA places three kratom-derived opioids in Schedule I, the first ever federally controlledIllustration, generated with Google Gemini.
  The prompt used

  Create an abstract illustration in the Economists artstyle, while using the wikikratom.com color scheme, base the illustration on the contents of this article: [the text of “DEA places three kratom-derived opioids in Schedule I, the first ever federally controlled”]
• Massachusetts places all forms of kratom in Schedule I by emergency regulationIllustration, generated with Google Gemini.
  The prompt used

  Create an abstract illustration in the Economists artstyle, while using the wikikratom.com color scheme, base the illustration on the contents of this article: [the text of “Massachusetts places all forms of kratom in Schedule I by emergency regulation”]
• Kratom in Alabama: both alkaloids sit in Schedule I, and the state is enforcing itIllustration, generated with Google Gemini.
  The prompt used

  Create an abstract illustration in the Economists artstyle, while using the wikikratom.com color scheme, base the illustration on the contents of this article: [the text of “Kratom in Alabama: both alkaloids sit in Schedule I, and the state is enforcing it”]
• How to read a heavy metal test, and what it means at your intakeTomas Kubek, Pexels Licence. Source, retrieved 6 Aug 2026.
• Mixing kratom with other drugs: what is actually knownIllustration, generated with Recraft V4.1.
  The prompt used

  Conceptual editorial illustration for a serious news magazine. Flat side elevation of a long laboratory bench holding a row of eight identical tall glass conical flasks standing evenly spaced, with a rack and a clamp stand behind them. Seven of the flasks are completely empty. One flask near the middle holds a single leaf. The entire scene is visible inside the frame with generous empty margin on all sides; nothing is cropped or bleeds off the edge. Background is pale cool grey-blue #DDE2E6. The navy is #16283C. The green is very dark forest green #1C3A20. Flat two-colour screenprint, bold simple shapes, subtle halftone dot texture. No text, no letters, no numbers, no people, no hands. Not photorealistic, no gradients, no shadows.
• Travelling with kratom: what changes at a border, and what does notIllustration, generated with Recraft V4.1.
  The prompt used

  Conceptual editorial illustration for a serious news magazine. Flat side elevation of a border checkpoint: a long striped barrier pole lowered horizontally across an empty road, with a sturdy post at each end and a small guard hut beside it. A single tall plant stem with one large leaf has grown up through the gap beneath the barrier, and its leaf hangs over on the far side. The entire scene is visible inside the frame with generous empty margin on all sides; nothing is cropped or bleeds off the edge. Background is a deep dark navy #101D2C filling the whole frame. The shapes are drawn in pale off-white #EFEEE0 and bright leaf green #6BA644. Flat two-colour screenprint reversed out on a dark ground, bold simple shapes, subtle halftone dot texture. No text, no letters, no numbers, no people, no hands. Not photorealistic, no gradients, no shadows.
• Kratom's alkaloids: what mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine are, and what they doDavid J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source, retrieved 29 Jul 2026.
• Kratom withdrawal: what the evidence shows, and how thin it still isThorPorre, CC-BY-3.0. Source, retrieved 29 Jul 2026.
• Kratom in Belgium: a controlled substance since 1 June 2024Illustration, generated with Recraft V4.1.
  The prompt used

  Conceptual editorial illustration for a serious news magazine. Flat front elevation of a tall office filing cabinet with five drawers and handles. The middle drawer is pulled fully open and it is completely empty except for one single leaf lying at the bottom of it. The other four drawers are shut. The entire scene is visible inside the frame with generous empty margin on all sides; nothing is cropped or bleeds off the edge. Background is warm off-white oat paper colour #EFEEE0, not pure white. The green is very dark forest green #1C3A20. The blue is dark navy indigo #16283C. Flat two-colour screenprint, bold simple shapes, subtle halftone dot texture. No text, no letters, no numbers, no people, no hands. Not photorealistic, no gradients, no shadows.
• Kratom in the United States: federally legal, federally unsellableU.S. Customs and Border Protection, Government work. Source, retrieved 29 Jul 2026.

How we choose images

We use photographs of the plant, of places, and of documents that are already public. We publish diagrams we have built ourselves from cited data. We do not use stock photography staged to look medical, and we publish no images of people using kratom.

We never attach a photograph of our editor. The byline is a pen name, explained on the about page. A pen name is privacy. A fabricated portrait would be something else, and we will not publish one whether it is stock or generated.

AI-generated images

We sometimes use AI-generated illustration. Where we do, the image says so underneath it, names the model that made it, and quotes the prompt we used.

There are limits we have built into the site rather than merely promised. An AI image here can only ever depict a plant, a place or an object. It cannot be used for a document, a chart or a diagram, because those carry the weight of evidence and a generated one would be a fabricated exhibit on a site whose whole argument is that its claims are checkable. That restriction is enforced by the software: an article that tries to publish a synthetic chart does not build.

Something wrong here?

If you hold rights to an image on this site and think we have credited it incorrectly, or used it where we should not have, write to us via the contact page and we will correct or remove it.