Script Botanicals: cat's claw tablets sold as the legal alternative to 7-OH, and the company behind them

Who they say they are, and what the record says

Script Botanicals sells chewable tablets under the name Paradise Blend. Its storefront, scriptbotanicals.com, opens with “the legal alternative to 7-OH” and “No 7-OH. No kratom. Botanical extract, clearly labeled”.[1] The botanical it names is Uncaria tomentosa, the Amazonian vine called cat's claw: “the extract is the only active botanical in the tablet”.[1] It says its bark is “harvested across the Amazon basin, primarily in Peru and Brazil”.[2] The site is candid about its audience: “most people find us while looking for a 7-OH alternative”.[1]

Figure 1. The storefront on 2026-10-07, three months after the domain was registered. The headline sells the tablets by reference to 7-OH. [1]

The site names no company. Its home page says “Orange, CA manufactured and distributed in California”,[1] and a product page says it “ships within one business day from Orange, California”.[3] The domain was registered on 2026-07-07 through GoDaddy, with the registrant hidden.[4] The archive held no capture of it before 2026-10-07.[5]

The brand is older than its website. A buyer posted a photograph of a Berry Punch sachet on 2026-04-13 and wrote that “the back says its made by Cali Extrax but their site has no mention of these tabs”.[6] The earliest certificates are from February. Encore Labs of Pasadena tested four flavours of Script Paradise Blend, “collected 02/23/2026”, for a client printed as “distributor scrip7” at “1525 W Orange Grove Ave, Unit B, Orange, CA, 92868”.[7]

Figure 2. A two-tablet sachet photographed by a buyer in April 2026, three months before the brand had a website. The poster wrote that the back named Cali Extrax as the maker. [6]

Three documents tie the brand to Cali Extrax, a Southern California hemp brand that sells THCA vapes and flower, mushroom gummies and tablets. The four 100 mg certificates that Script's own lab page links, from PharmLabs San Diego in July 2026, read “Tested for Cali Extrax”.[8] Cali Extrax's lab page hosts the February certificates under the name Scrip7: “Scrip7 4 Pack Tablets Peach Sherbet 4 Pack Tablets View Report”.[9] And Cali Extrax's store has a collection of the brand, “Home Collection Script Botanical”,[10] which on 2026-10-05 added a 30 mg tablet listed as “Script Botanical 30mg 2 Pack - Wavy Watermelon Vendor: Cali Extrax”.[11] Cali Extrax gives “16162 Beach Blvd #255 Huntington Beach CA 92647” in its footer, and in its privacy policy a contact address in the same city as Script, “500 N. State College Boulevard, Suite 1100, Orange CA 92868”.[12] The privacy contact is an address at a marketing agency's domain, “caliextrax@tfc.marketing”.[12]

This page treats Script Botanicals as a Cali Extrax product line. The legal entity behind Cali Extrax, and behind the name Scrip7, was not identified: no company of either name is in Florida's corporate file, and no FDA or federal court record names either.

A four-tablet card is co-branded Script Botanicals x Maui Labs. Maui Labs is a hemp brand that Cali Extrax pairs with its own name on other products, for example “Cali Extrax x Maui Labs Unhinged Gummies 7500mg 15ct”.[13]

What they sell

Cat's claw tablets, in fruit flavours. The storefront lists bottles of ten 100 mg tablets and a single 250 mg tablet.[1][3] Smoke shops carry two-tablet sachets, four-tablet cards and counter displays printed 3000MG per display, as buyers' photographs show.[14][15] On 2026-10-05 Cali Extrax added a 30 mg tablet, two to a pack.[11]

Figure 3. Script displays beside a 7-OH tablet box and kratom in a shop, posted in September 2026 by a buyer whose shop had sold out of the 7-OH tablets. [14]

Every product page repeats the same denial: “contains no 7-OH no kratom no MGM”.[3] Retail listings do the same. One shop's page says “does not contain 7OH or MGM”.[13] A wholesaler's says “legal in all 50 states magic cats claw” and places the tablets among “innovative legal alternatives designed to offer familiar effect profiles without using restricted ingredients like kratom or hydroxy”.[16]

Figure 4. The four-tablet card co-branded with Maui Labs, a hemp brand that Cali Extrax names as a partner on its own products. Posted 2026-09-30 by a buyer who wrote that the tablets ended their withdrawal. [15]

The label on the 250 mg pack is a Supplement Facts panel. It sets the serving at half a tablet, and its suggested use tells the buyer to take half a tablet to establish individual tolerance. The ingredient list names sorbitol, natural flavour, sucralose, polyvinylpolypyrrolidone, natural colouring, silicon dioxide and magnesium stearate, and then Uncaria tomentosa, last. The certificate for a 250 mg tablet gives its weight as “Unit Mass (g) 0.5”,[17] so the stated extract would be half the tablet by weight.

Figure 5. The back of the 250 mg pack, from its product page. It tells the buyer to start with half a tablet to establish individual tolerance, and lists cat's claw last among the ingredients. [3]

The 30 mg display box that Cali Extrax pictures is printed dietary supplement on its front. A warning on its side says the product contains addictive chemicals. The Cali Extrax listing itself names no ingredient: “Strength: 60mg per pack Flavors Profiles: Sweet Candy Script Botanicals Labs”.[11]

Figure 6. The 30 mg line Cali Extrax listed on 2026-10-05. The box says dietary supplement on the front and, on its side, that the product contains addictive chemicals. [11]

What the tablets contain beyond what the label says is not established by any document found. The molecule links on this page are buyers' suspicions, set out under Allegations below, and not findings.

What buyers report

Buyers discuss the brand on Reddit, in the communities for 7-OH users. Every post in r/7_hydroxymitragynine (54,721) and r/7OH (16,575) to 2026-10-06 was pulled through the Arctic Shift archive and searched for the brand's names.[18] Eleven distinct posts name it, from 2026-04-13 to 2026-09-30, and all eleven were read with their comment threads. Arctic Shift searches on 2026-10-07 returned two more threads, one of them in r/quittingkratom, that mention it in passing.

The timing is the first thing the posts show. On 2026-07-31 a poster wrote that “my local vape shop is selling 70H and in its place is rows of a new product script botanicals aka cats claw”.[19] A commenter under that post who had just tried one wrote “One tab felt exactlyyyyy like Emgeeemmm”, meaning MGM-15.[19] In September, a buyer whose shop had run out of a 7-OH tablet wrote that “My local SS sold out of the 7stax but they told me, the Script botanicals has been selling”.[14]

Seven posters describe taking the tablets themselves. Five describe an effect like an opioid's or relief from withdrawal: “lasts a good bit longer than 7” (2026-04-13);[6] “These script tabs from Kures actually hit really well for me”, “Felt pretty close to 7oh in my experience” (2026-08-31);[20] of withdrawal from a 7-OH tablet, “it not only took them away but also gave me a bunch of euphoria” (2026-09-03);[21] “these did get me out of withdrawal” (2026-09-30).[15] The fifth, on 2026-09-06, said a shop had handed over an unlabelled sample, and took it for 7-OH. A reply disagreed: “Way longer lasting, nowhere as near as euphoric”.[22] A sixth poster said it “took away my cravings for 7 but maybe placebo”.[14] The seventh, in Atlanta, wrote that “The only place I have found had. Script botanicals but they” did nothing for them.[23] In the comments, one buyer said it was “nothing anywhere near as good as stax”.[14]

The most discussed complaint is the dye. A post on 2026-09-11 drew 179 comments; the buyer had “popped one only for my mouth to be literally painted blue”.[24] Another wrote “They turned my entire mouth blue”.[21] A third said of the tablets, “They taste awful”.[15]

No post describes an order from the brand's own website. Every buyer who says where they bought bought from a shop or from another online vendor.

Allegations: who says what, why, and what we could check

That the tablets contain MGM-15. In four threads, commenters say that a person who campaigns online against 7-OH bought Script tablets, had them tested, and posted the result. The figures they give differ: “Tested to have 18.6mg of em in them actually” (2026-09-04),[21] “came back that it had 19.6 mg of emgeem in each dose” (2026-09-06),[22] and “I saw a test for the scripts have 18mg of 15 in them” (2026-09-13).[14] One commenter added that the same person's tests of cat's claw products found that “without exception every one of them has contained emgee”.[14]

The speakers are anonymous Reddit users relaying a third party's post. They describe the tester as someone “trying to get seven banned”,[22] and one buyer discounted the result for that reason, citing “the person who did independent labs on them” as an opponent of 7-OH.[15] A campaigner against 7-OH has a motive to find opioids in its substitutes. So would anyone who sells a competing product. Neither motive makes a laboratory result true or false. We did not find the report, the laboratory's name, or a certificate.

What we could check is the brand's own testing, and it answers a narrower question. PharmLabs tested for MGM-15 on nine of the brand's certificates and reported it not detected, with a limit of quantitation of 0.562 parts per million: “MGM-15 (MGM) 0.186 0.562 ND ND”.[8] Those are tests of samples the company sent, of particular lots, in June, July and August 2026. The February certificates from Encore did not test for MGM-15 at all.[7] If a tablet from another lot contains MGM-15, nothing the brand has published speaks to it.

Two regulators have found MGM-15 in tablets sold as cat's claw, under other brand names. Utah's agriculture department and poison centre wrote in July 2026 of “illegally sold kratom products mislabeled as cat's claw products in Utah retailers”, and that “The tested products contained both mitragynine pseudoindoxyl and MGM-15, which are opioid-acting compounds derived from the kratom plant”.[25] The same release describes genuine cat's claw as a vine that “is not expected to cause adverse effects”, whose products “do not contain the psychoactive compounds found in and derived from kratom”.[25] In Tennessee, “TBI said it is seeing an increase in products marketed as cat's claw that actually contain MGM-15, which is a compound made from kratom”.[26] Neither names Script Botanicals. The buyers' accounts above, of withdrawal relieved and of an effect like 7-OH, are what Utah says cat's claw itself does not do. They are buyers' readings and not tests.

That Script is owned by Buzzers, the brand Utah named. One commenter wrote “I also heard script was owned by Buzzers but idk 100%”.[27] We found nothing to support it. Every document found points to Cali Extrax and a distributor called Scrip7.

If you have had a Script tablet tested, or know who makes the extract, rate Script Botanicals below or comment on the thread at the foot of this page.

Lab results

The brand publishes a certificate for every flavour. Sixteen were found: four from Encore Labs in February 2026, five from PharmLabs in June, four in July and three in August.[7][17][8][28] Every result on all sixteen is ND, not detected.

Figure 7. The earliest document, February 2026. The distributor is Scrip7 of Orange, California. The four alkaloids are marked beyond the lab's accreditation, and MGM-15 is not on the list. [9]

The analytes are the point. Encore tested four compounds, “7-Hydroxymitragynine Mitragynine Pseudoindoxyl Mitragynine Akuammine”, all marked “beyond scope of accreditation”, on a report that says “this report is not a California regulatory compliance certificate, it is for R&D/Quality Assurance purposes only”.[7] PharmLabs tested five kratom alkaloids in June and July, and added mitragynine pseudoindoxyl in August.[28] No certificate measures Uncaria tomentosa, any of its alkaloids, or any compound the label says is in the tablet. No certificate tests for MGM-16, the third compound in the DEA's August order,[29] or for any opioid that does not come from kratom. The certificates show what the samples did not contain, out of a short list. They do not show what the tablets are.

Figure 8. A July 2026 certificate from the brand's own lab page. The client is Cali Extrax. The five analytes are all kratom alkaloids, and no row measures cat's claw. [30]

The site's own pages describe more testing than the certificates show. Its lab page says “every batch is tested by an independent, third-party lab for potency and purity before it ships”.[30] The table below that sentence reports, for each batch, a potency “Pass” with a strength: “SD260619-075 Script Botanicals Paradise Blend 250mg Berry Blitz Jun 23, 2026 Pass 250mg”.[30] The certificate behind that row has no potency result. It has five rows of ND.[17] The table also dates the July tests to June: “SD260721-025 Script 100mg Cats Claw Tablet Sour Apple Jun 23, 2026 Pass 100mg”,[30] for a sample the certificate says was “Received Jul 21, 2026”.[8] A product page lists the batch as “batch PB-0000 placeholder tested for potency heavy metals microbials”.[3] None of the sixteen certificates has a metals or microbial panel.

Figure 9. The lab-results table. Each row reports a potency pass with a milligram figure. The certificates it links contain no potency result. [30]

Figure 10. The certificate behind the first row of the table. Unit mass 0.5 g, so the label's 250 mg of extract would be half the tablet. Nothing on it measures that extract. [30]

The home page promises that “every batch carries a certificate of analysis so the label and the contents match”,[1] and the sourcing page that “if a claim is not on the certificate of analysis or the label we do not make it”.[2] The claim that matters, 100 or 250 mg of cat's claw extract a tablet, is on the label and on no certificate.

This site's lab-results section holds no test of a Script Botanicals product.

Marketing and disclosure

The storefront went up with its template's notes still in it. The FAQ's answer on whether the tablets are legal says “the product is 2018 Farm Bill compliant and sold in all 50 states” and ends “placeholder copy confirm with counsel before launch”.[31] The lab table's footnote says “COA links are placeholders in this kit”, though the links do open real certificates.[30] The catalogue shows a tile for “15 pack format 1 example product 1”.[1] The banner across every page reads “2018 Farm Bill Compliant · Lab-Tested · Legal in All 50 States”.[1] The 2018 Farm Bill concerns hemp. Cat's claw is not hemp.

Figure 11. The FAQ as published in October 2026. Its answers still carry the template's placeholder notes; the one on legality says to confirm with counsel before launch. [31]

The sourcing page says “we will not tell you how this will make you feel”.[2] The headline compares the product with 7-OH, the drug most of its buyers are looking to replace. Nothing on the storefront mentions the Utah and Tennessee warnings about tablets sold as cat's claw, or the DEA's temporary order placing MGM-15 and mitragynine pseudoindoxyl in Schedule I, which reads “this temporary order is effective august 26 2026 until august 26 2028”.[29]

Age: the same home page says “must be 18 to purchase” beside its newsletter form and “must be 21 to purchase” in its footer.[1] There is no age gate on the storefront.

Payment is through Shopify's checkout, which lists “Visa Mastercard American Express Discover”.[1] Card payments can be disputed.

Regulatory and legal

FDA site searches for “Script Botanicals”, “Scrip7” and “Cali Extrax” on 2026-10-07 returned no warning letter or other action.[32] A CourtListener search of federal dockets for the same three names returned no case.[33] The state warnings about cat's claw tablets found for this page, from Utah and Tennessee, name other brands or none.[25][26]

Still open

The legal entity behind Cali Extrax and the name Scrip7. Florida's corporate file was searched for Script Botanicals, Scrip7, Cali Extrax and Cali Extracts on 2026-10-07 and returned none of them. The California registry was not searched.

The independent test that Reddit commenters describe. Searches of the web for the brand with MGM-15 and with laboratory results on 2026-10-07 returned only retailers and the Utah and Tennessee coverage.

Who makes the extract, and what is in it. No certificate quantifies any ingredient, and no test of the product by anyone other than the company was found.

Changes

2026-10-07: first published.

References

1. Script Botanicals home page, archived 2026-10-07 — Wayback Machine
2. Script Botanicals, Our story (sourcing), archived 2026-10-07 — Wayback Machine
3. Script Botanicals, Blue Sour Razz (250mg) single pack, archived 2026-10-07 — Wayback Machine
4. RDAP record for scriptbotanicals.com (registered 2026-07-07, GoDaddy, registrant redacted) — Verisign
5. Wayback Machine capture index for scriptbotanicals.com — Internet Archive
6. Script Botanicals "Cats Claw" (2026-04-13) — r/7_hydroxymitragynine — anecdotal report, not evidence
7. Encore Labs, R&D certificate, Script Paradise Blend, Sweet Citrus, sample 2602ENC2603_8610, completed 2026-02-24 (hosted by Cali Extrax) — Encore Labs, Pasadena
8. PharmLabs San Diego, certificate SD260721-025, Script 100mg Cats Claw Tablet, Sour Apple, reported 2026-07-23 — PharmLabs San Diego
9. Cali Extrax lab results page, archived 2026-10-07 — Wayback Machine
10. Cali Extrax, Script Botanical collection, archived 2026-10-07 — Wayback Machine
11. Cali Extrax, Script Botanical 30mg 2 Pack, Wavy Watermelon, archived 2026-10-07 — Wayback Machine
12. Cali Extrax privacy policy, archived 2026-10-07 — Wayback Machine
13. The Green Dragon CBD, Script Botanicals Paradise Blend Cat's Claw Tablets, archived 2026-10-07 — Wayback Machine
14. SCRIPT? (2026-09-12) — r/7_hydroxymitragynine — anecdotal report, not evidence
15. script botanicals (2026-09-30) — r/7_hydroxymitragynine — anecdotal report, not evidence
16. Prime Supply Distro, Script Cat Claw Botanical Tablets 3000MG (wholesale listing), read 2026-10-07 — Prime Supply Distro
17. PharmLabs San Diego, certificate SD260619-075, Script Botanicals Paradise Blend 250mg, Berry Blitz, reported 2026-06-23 — PharmLabs San Diego
18. r/7_hydroxymitragynine (54,721 posts) and r/7OH (16,575), every post to 2026-10-06, through the Arctic Shift archive — Arctic Shift — anecdotal report, not evidence
19. Wtf is cats claw (2026-07-31) — r/7_hydroxymitragynine — anecdotal report, not evidence
20. best alternative for 7oh (2026-08-31) — r/7OH — anecdotal report, not evidence
21. Script botanicals (2026-09-03) — r/7OH — anecdotal report, not evidence
22. Script botanicals (2026-09-06) — r/7OH — anecdotal report, not evidence
23. Cats Claw Atlanta (2026-09-13) — r/7OH — anecdotal report, not evidence
24. This is totally unacceptable! (2026-09-11) — r/7_hydroxymitragynine — anecdotal report, not evidence
25. Illegal kratom product sold in Utah County linked to death in Utah — Utah Department of Agriculture and Food with the Utah Poison Control Center, 2026-07-30
26. What is cat's claw and why is Tennessee law enforcement warning public about it containing illegal compound — WSMV, 2026-09-14
27. Kratom and prop blend mix better than 7oh? (2026-09-23) — r/7_hydroxymitragynine — anecdotal report, not evidence
28. PharmLabs San Diego, certificate SD260828-051, Script 100mg Cats Claw Tablet, Wavy Watermelon, reported 2026-08-31 (hosted by The Green Dragon CBD) — PharmLabs San Diego
29. Schedules of Controlled Substances: Temporary Placement of Mitragynine Pseudoindoxyl, MGM-15, and MGM-16 in Schedule I (FR Doc. 2026-17429) — Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Register, 2026-08-26
30. Script Botanicals lab results page, archived 2026-10-07 — Wayback Machine
31. Script Botanicals FAQ, archived 2026-10-07 — Wayback Machine
32. FDA site search for "Script Botanicals", "Scrip7" and "Cali Extrax", run 2026-10-07 — U.S. Food and Drug Administration
33. CourtListener RECAP search for "Script Botanicals", "Scrip7" and "Cali Extrax", run 2026-10-07 — Free Law Project