Guides
Guides
Practical, harm-reduction-first.
"Not for human consumption": what the label on a kratom packet means, and what it does not
The words are there to keep a product outside food law. Whether they succeed is for a regulator to decide, and they tell you nothing about whether the contents are safe to swallow.
Leaf, extract, enhanced, 7-OH: what the product words actually mean
Few words on a kratom package carry a legal definition. "Extract" is the exception, and the laws defining it disagree. One product labelled "kratom extract" held more 7-OH than its label claimed.
How to read a heavy metal test, and what it means at your intake
A lab report gives you a concentration. What reaches you is a daily dose, and the arithmetic between the two turns entirely on how many grams you take.
Mixing kratom with other drugs: what is actually known
Kratom is almost always found alongside other substances in overdose deaths. That single fact is misread in both directions, and the research that would settle it barely exists.
What testing has found in kratom products, and what nobody has checked
No one routinely tests kratom products. When regulators and academics have sampled them, they found salmonella, heavy metals, unpredictable potency and, in one case, added opioids.
Travelling with kratom: what changes at a border, and what does not
Kratom is under no international drug control, so every country decides alone. Schengen removes the checkpoint rather than the law, and no medical exemption exists for kratom.