Title
An Ordinance Establishing a New Chapter 25 (Prohibition Of Kratom, Novel Synthetic and Psychoactive Drug Businesses), of Title 7 (Business and License), of the Orland Park Village Code
History
At the June 19, 2023 Board of Trustees meeting, the Board approved an ordinance banning the manufacture and sale of cannabinoid products. Following the approval of this ordinance, the Village notified all Class B tobacco license holders and included notice in the annual business license renewal application. Since then, Village staff has become aware that businesses have shifted to sell other apparently intoxicating products, mimicking psychoactive and opiate substances, which are of dubious legality.
Drug makers have long developed new compounds in an attempt to stay ahead of lawmakers and to continue to profit off of illicit and intoxicating substances. In response, the proposed attached Ordinance would seek to stay ahead of illicit operators and ensure that they have no home in Orland Park by banning businesses which manufacture, sell or distribute kratom, novel psychoactive drugs, and novel synthetic drugs.
What is Kratom?
According to the National Library of Medicine, kratom “has opioid-like properties.” The DEA has listed kratom as a “Drug and Chemical of Concern,” see attached Drug Fact Sheet. Kratom and other similar opioid-like products are widely available at convenience stores and gas stations. One such opioid-like product, tianeptine is also referred to as “gas station heroin.” Illinois passed the Kratom Control Act (720 ILCS 642/) regulating sale to minors. An article from Florida states hundreds have died using kratom and was touted as safe to ease anxiety and mimic the effects of opioids. Attached is a legal sidebar with a list from the Congressional Research Service on kratom regulations. In 2016, San Diego City Council approved an ordinance that prohibits the manufacturing, sale, distribution and possession of spice, bath salts, kratom, and other ...
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