Contact your lawmakers

A message to your lawmakers takes about five minutes. You have two state lawmakers in Austin and three congressmen in Washington. They each control a different piece of this. Pick who you’re writing, copy the letter below, make it yours, and send it.

Your state senator and state representative vote on Jonas’s Law. This is the one that decides whether these products stay on Texas shelves.

Find your two legislators

Open Who Represents Me (opens in a new tab) and enter your address. You have two: a state senator and a state representative. Write down both names. You’ll send this letter twice, once to each.
Make the message yours

Copy the letter below, then add your name, your city, and a few sentences about why this matters to you. You can edit it right here before copying.
Send it

Each member has a contact form on their page at the Texas Legislature site. Paste the message, add the subject line, read it once more, and send. Then do the same for your other legislator.

Subject

Your message

Dear [Senator/Representative] [Last Name],

I live in [your city] and I am one of your constituents. I am writing to ask you to support Jonas’s Law when it is filed in the 2027 session.

Jonas was 19 — an All-State trumpet player, a two-time Texas 6A marching band state champion, and a freshman at Oklahoma State. In April 2026 he died after taking a concentrated 7-OH product sold at a gas station. His family had never heard of 7-OH until it appeared in his toxicology report.

7-OH, short for 7-hydroxymitragynine, is an opioid. Laboratory studies put it at roughly 13 times the potency of morphine. It occurs in the kratom plant only in trace amounts, but the tablets, gummies, and shots on store shelves are concentrated: the Texas Attorney General’s office has tested products as high as 96 percent 7-OH by alkaloid content, against a state cap of 2 percent. A single tablet can carry 60 milligrams. There is no FDA-approved use and no established safe dose.

Texas poison centers logged 192 kratom-related reports in 2025, up from 107 in 2024 — almost certainly an undercount, since 7-OH is not on standard toxicology panels. Confirming it in Jonas’s case took a specific request to the medical examiner.

Texas already has that 2 percent cap. Enforcing it has meant suing one retailer at a time, and no one can verify a percentage at a checkout counter. Jonas’s Law would close the gap by:

- Placing kratom, 7-OH, and their lab-made analogs in a new Penalty Group 1-C, with felony penalties aimed at manufacturers and distributors, and letting the state add newly invented analogs by emergency action when sellers reformulate.

- Giving the Attorney General, DSHS, and local prosecutors the power to seek injunctions, embargo products, and levy civil penalties, rather than litigating store by store.

- Requiring medical examiners to test for these compounds in suspected overdose deaths, so Texas finally knows its real numbers.

The families behind this bill are asking that enforcement fall on the people manufacturing and selling these products, not on individuals struggling with dependence.

Federal action has started — the DEA placed three 7-OH analogs in Schedule I in August 2026 — but that order is temporary, expires in two years, and does not cover concentrated 7-OH itself. Analogs can be swapped and labels rewritten. Texas should not wait on Washington.

[Add two or three sentences in your own words: who you are, and why this matters to you. If you, your family, or someone you know has encountered these products, say so here. A specific story from where you live carries more weight with a legislative office than anything else in this letter.]

Please support Jonas’s Law. I would appreciate hearing where you stand.

Thank you for your time.

[Your name]
[Your street address, city, and ZIP code]

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Your two U.S. senators and your U.S. representative can press the DEA to finish scheduling concentrated 7-OH, and can write it into federal law so the controls don’t expire in two years.

Find your delegation

Open democracy.io (opens in a new tab) and enter your address. It finds your two U.S. senators and your U.S. representative, and gives you one form for all three.
Make the message yours

Copy the letter below, then add your name, your city, and a few sentences about why this matters to you. You can edit it right here before copying.
Paste, check, send

Paste the message into the form, add the subject line, read it once more, and send.

Subject

Your message

Dear [Senator/Representative] [Last Name],

I live in [your city], Texas, and I am one of your constituents. I am writing to ask you to help finish what the FDA and DEA have started on concentrated 7-OH.

Kratom-related reports to U.S. poison centers rose roughly 1,200 percent between 2015 and 2025, and poison centers logged 3,803 kratom and kratom-derivative exposures in 2025 alone. Those numbers are almost certainly low, because 7-OH is not on standard toxicology panels — confirming it in Jonas’s case took a specific request to the medical examiner.

In July 2026 the DEA issued notices of intent to place both concentrated 7-OH and three related analogs in Schedule I. The analogs — mitragynine pseudoindoxyl, MGM-15, and MGM-16 — took effect on August 26, 2026. The order covering concentrated 7-OH itself still has not issued, more than a year after the FDA formally recommended it. I am asking you to:

- Urge the DEA and HHS to issue the pending scheduling order for concentrated 7-OH without further delay.

- Support legislation placing concentrated 7-OH and its analogs in the Controlled Substances Act by statute, so these controls do not simply lapse when the two-year emergency order expires.

- Fund FDA and Customs and Border Protection enforcement against imported 7-OH material and against companies marketing an opioid as a dietary supplement.

Texas is acting on its own — a bill called Jonas’s Law would schedule these compounds under state law in the 2027 session — but a state line on a map does not stop an online order, and an emergency order that expires in two years is not a policy. This needs Congress as well.

Thank you for your time. I would appreciate hearing where you stand.

[Your name]
[Your street address, city, and ZIP code]

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Sent one? Send the other. Texas and Congress are working on different pieces of the same problem, and the second letter takes about ninety seconds once you’ve written your own paragraph.

Please edit the message. Offices count form letters, but they read personal ones. A sentence in your own words — who you are, where you live, why 7-OH matters to you — is what gets a message passed along to the member. Keep the facts, change the voice.

Not sure what to write? One line is plenty. “I’m a parent of two teenagers in Round Rock.” “I’m an ER nurse and I’ve seen what these tablets do.” “My brother has been trying to get off them for a year.”

If you’ve lost someone, you decide how much to share. A single line is enough.

Every fact in this letter is sourced. See the sources behind the campaign.

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