JEFFERSON CITY — The Green Dragon and its owners have agreed not to own, operate or hold a financial interest in any Missouri business that markets, advertises or sells 7-OH or any other kratom product, directly or indirectly, to Missouri consumers and distributors, Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announced last week.
The agreement applies to The Green Dragon, LLC and David Jadwin and Matthew Jadwin, known collectively as “Dragon.”
Dragon, described as a St. Louis-area distributor of 7-OH, must remove products covered by the agreement from its Missouri retail premises and stop selling, distributing, offering, transferring, delivering, marketing and advertising those products to any consumer or distributor located in Missouri.
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Dragon also agreed not to sell any dietary supplement without first obtaining a scientific analysis of its active ingredients. The analysis is intended to ensure consumers are not exposed to substances such as 7-OH without their knowledge.
“These unregulated, highly addictive drugs have taken lives and fueled addiction across our state. This resolution is another decisive step to protect Missouri families from the deadly impact of gas-station opioids,” Hanaway said in the announcement. “Our office will continue pursuing any distributor or retailer that puts Missourians in jeopardy.”
The agreement is the latest in a series of resolutions the Missouri Attorney General’s Office has secured with distributors and retailers of kratom alkaloids.
The office said those agreements include resolutions with CBD American Shaman, Relax Relief Rejuvenate Trading, also known as EDP Kratom, and Big Dreams Ventures, also known as VEGA 7X, as well as others that are not yet public.
The announcement also follows federal action involving 7-OH and related substances. On July 1, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration noticed its intent to add 7-OH, MGM-15, MGM-16 and mitragynine pseudoindoxyl to the schedule of controlled substances as Schedule I drugs. The 30-day comment period on that notice expired Aug. 1.
The U.S. Attorney General may now label those substances as Schedule I drugs, which would impose federal criminal penalties, according to the attorney general’s announcement.
Hanaway said she applauded federal officials for recognizing the substances as “synthetic, addictive opioids that carry grave risks.”
Her office said it will continue enforcing Missouri consumer protection laws that forbid the sale of 7-OH, MGM-15, MGM-16 and pseudoindoxyl as the federal legal landscape develops.
The Assurance of Voluntary Compliance was filed in the Cole Circuit Court and formally ends the attorney general’s investigation into Dragon.
The agreement does not include an admission of liability, consistent with other negotiated resolutions, and no court determined that any individual or entity was liable in any related proceeding.
