SFPD Seizes Hundreds of Items Illegally for Sale at City Smoke Shops #26-132
San Francisco Police Department officers in the Narcotics Unit served search warrants at multiple San Francisco “smoke shops” in recent weeks, seizing items including kratom and 7-OH packets, psilocybin, flavored tobacco, drug paraphernalia, nitrous oxide, and hundreds of other illegal items.
The months-long investigation focused on businesses in the Sunset and Park districts that were suspected of selling items illegally under San Francisco and California law.
On September 10, 2026, officers served a search warrant at a smoke shop on the 1400 block of Haight Street and seized items suspected of containing psilocybin mushrooms, kratom and 7-OH packets, flavored tobacco and vapes, nitrous oxide canisters, and multiple glass pipes.
Items including kratom, nitrous oxide, and drug paraphernalia were displayed in plain view inside the store with price tags during the seizure.
On October 9, 2026, SFPD officers served a search warrant at a smoke shop on the 4600 block of Geary Boulevard, which did not have a license to sell tobacco products. Officers seized over 200 flavored vapes, tobacco products, drug pipes and paraphernalia, over 400 kratom products, psilocybin products, and other evidence.
The San Francisco Police Department is working closely with the City Attorney’s Office on these investigations. Substances like kratom and 7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) are not currently scheduled drugs; however, they contain powerful chemicals that can be harmful and are not regulated to be sold for human consumption.
Kratom and 7-OH (7-Hydroxymitragynine) have compounds that have psychotropic or mind-altering effects and can mimic the effects of opioids and the effects of stimulants. High doses of these substances may cause respiratory depression, coma, death, hypertension leading to increased heart rate, which can lead to cardiac arrest and stroke.
These substances are often marketed and sold in packets as herbal supplements or other products with misleading labels.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health recently reported that an individual died from consuming dihydro-7-hydroxymitragynine (also known as MGM-15), which was recently added to the federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s list of Schedule I narcotics. Dihydro-7-hydroxymitragynine is a kratom-derived semi-synthetic opioid, which is also commonly packaged as a supplement or other misleadingly named product.
The SFPD would like to thank the Alcohol Liaison Unit, Department of Public Health, Division of Food and Drug Safety, and the City Attorney’s Office for their assistance and collaboration, which were instrumental in these operations. SFPD will continue to prioritize efforts to address and enforce criminal activity and civil code violations, the selling of illegal products and substances, and the unpermitted sales to minors by holding violators accountable.
While an arrest has been made, these cases remain open and active investigations. Anyone with information is asked to contact the SFPD at 1-415-575-4444 or Text-A-Tip to TIP411, beginning your message with "SFPD".