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Streator joins other La Salle County communities in banning synthetic kratom · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Streeter joins other LaSalle County communities in banning synthetic kratom. Written
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  by Michael Urbineck. This article is being read by an automated voice,
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  brought to you by Everlet. The sale of synthetic kratom is officially
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  banned in Strieter after the city council approved a new ordinance Wednesday
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  night. The ordinance establishes concentration limits for mitragenine. Seven hydroxymitragenine
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  and total kratom alkaloids requires Kratom products to contain specific labeling and
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  product information and requires retailers to obtain a certificate of analysis for
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  Kratom products. Natural Kratom, as explained by City Manager Yates McLaughlin, will
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  still be available for purchase to people older than 21. The ordinance
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  describes natural kratom in its natural plant-based form, including raw or dried
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  leaf, minimally processed powder that has not been chemically altered or concentrated.
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  Once it goes through that process, it becomes synthetic kratom, which according
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  to the University of Colorado can be up to 50 times more
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  powerful than normal kratom powder. McLachlan said that the previous draft shown
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  during the Committee of the Whole Meeting on October 6th had to
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  be altered because one of the limits which would have prohibited the
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  sale of Kratom with sa 17 milligrams of total kratom alkaloids per
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  gram, while separately allowing up to 30 milligrams of mitragenine per gram
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  would have conflicted because mitragenine itself is a kratom alkaloid. Mayor Terabetti
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  said she received a lot of emails that asked the city to
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  preserve the natural cream products.