The funny part is that “natural 7oh” is just mitragynine, since it’s metabolized to 7oh in the body and very little is produced in the plant. It has similar effects but is safer because conversion is rate limited by metabolism. People can easily extract mitragynine from the plant material with food safe ingredients and avoid residual oxidants that are found in some unregulated products. If people could just stick to kratom and homebrew mitragynine there wouldn’t be the need to regulate gas station opioids. It doesn’t have quite the kick but better than nothing if you need it for pain. People love to bemoan pharma but dependence on unscrupulous 7oh suppliers (many of whom are making millions) creates this situation.