{"id":238324,"date":"2025-09-19T06:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/238324\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T06:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:59:15","slug":"florida-attorney-general-agriculture-commissioner-team-up-to-crack-down-on-gas-station-morphine-104-5-wokv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/238324\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Attorney General, Agriculture Commissioner team up to crack down on \u2018gas station morphine\u2019 \u2013 104.5 WOKV"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 18,000 packages of so-called \u201cgas station morphine\u201d have been pulled from store shelves in just over a month, Florida\u2019s Attorney General and Agriculture Commissioner announced at a press conference in Jacksonville, Thursday.<\/p>\n

7-OH is the active ingredient in Kratom, but in recent years, products containing pure or highly concentrated 7-OH have been hitting store shelves.<\/p>\n

The chemical is an opioid compound, the same type of drug as heroin or fentanyl, which has earned the product its \u201cgas station morphine\u201d nickname.<\/p>\n

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier banned the products via emergency rule last month, reclassifying them a Schedule I drugs, the same as heroin, LSD, and ecstasy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen extracted and when chemically enhanced, it can be 13 times more potent than morphine. And this is what\u2019s been on shelves and gas stations, retail stores, 7-Elevens right next to candy,\u201d said Uthmeier.<\/p>\n

Since that August emergency rule, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has worked to pull thousands of products from store shelves.<\/p>\n

67 of those stores were within a half mile of schools, and two here in Jacksonville were literally across the street from schools.<\/p>\n

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson says his office\u2019s enforcement efforts are just getting started.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve gotten about halfway across the state in those efforts and removed I think about 18,000 packages, but by the end of the year we\u2019ll have been through this entire state and get this off of our shelves,\u201d said Simpson.<\/p>\n

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And as Simpson\u2019s office takes on 7-OH, it\u2019s also still targeting intoxicating hemp products.<\/p>\n

As of late July,155,000 illegal hemp products had been pulled from store shelves in the operation \u201cSafe Summer\u201d.<\/p>\n

But Simpson argued that after several years of failed attempts to set concentration limits and other restrictions on products like hemp and Kratom, he argued it\u2019s imperative that lawmakers get something across the finish line next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re a street-level dealer and you\u2019re selling drugs, you\u2019re probably going to jail when we catch you, and our law enforcement. And the same thing should happen with these store owners,\u201d said Simpson.<\/p>\n

Uthmeier\u2019s 7-OH ban also needs to be codified by lawmakers in the next session to become permanent, and the Attorney General indicated he\u2019s hopeful the legislature will follow through.<\/p>\n

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