{"id":1341,"date":"2025-12-08T20:13:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/?page_id=1341"},"modified":"2026-08-26T20:51:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:51:39","slug":"kansas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/?page_id=1341","title":{"rendered":"Kansas &#8211; BANNED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Enacted Legislation:<\/strong> House Bill 2365 \/ Senate Bill 430 amended the Kansas Uniform Controlled Substances Act to schedule kratom, its primary active alkaloids (mitragynine), and synthesized derivatives (such as 7-hydroxymitragynine \/ 7-OH) as Schedule I controlled substances. \u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>Effective Date:<\/strong> Full enforcement began on <strong>July 1, 2026<\/strong>, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, distribution, and possession of kratom and 7-OH products across the state. \u00a0<\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Scope:<\/strong> Covers raw botanical leaf, powders, extracts, and synthetic 7-OH analogs. Violations carry criminal penalties under state drug enforcement laws. \u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/KS\/bill\/HB2365\/2025\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/KS\/bill\/HB2365\/2025\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#135881\" class=\"has-inline-color\">HB2365<\/mark><\/a><\/strong> <br>Status: <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Passed<\/mark><\/strong> on April 10 2026 &#8211; 100% progression<br>Action: 2026-04-10 &#8211; House Approved by Governor on Friday, April 10, 2026<br>Text:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/KS\/text\/HB2365\/2025\">Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]<\/a><br><br>More details:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In April 2026, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly signed legislation (House Bill 2365 \/ Senate Bill 430) amending the state\u2019s Uniform Controlled Substances Act to place kratom, its primary active alkaloids (mitragynine), and synthesized derivatives like 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) into <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ks.gov\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/1016\/55\">Schedule I<\/a>.<sup><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/?page_id=2986\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/?page_id=2986\">Kansas Bill History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HB2365 Status: Passed on April 10 2026 &#8211; 100% progressionAction: 2026-04-10 &#8211; House Approved by Governor on Friday, April 10, 2026Text:\u00a0Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF] More details: In April 2026, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly signed legislation (House Bill 2365 \/ Senate Bill 430) amending the state\u2019s Uniform Controlled Substances Act to place kratom, its primary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":330,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1341","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3291,"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1341\/revisions\/3291"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.botanicalae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}