West Virginia Code Chapter 19. Agriculture § 19-12F-3. Definitions

(1) “Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner” means the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner or his or her designee.

(2) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Agriculture or his or her designee.

(3) “Contaminated” means made impure and unsafe by biological, chemical, or physical additives.

(4) “Department” means the West Virginia Department of Agriculture.

(5) “Kratom” means a psychoactive preparation that is composed of the crushed or powdered dried leaves of the mitragyna speciosa, a yellow-flowered tropical tree which contains the alkaloids mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine.

(6) “Kratom product” means a food product, food ingredient, dietary agreement, dietary supplement, or beverage intended or marketed for human consumption containing any part of the leaf of the plant mitragyna speciosa.

(7) “Manufacture” means a person or entity which grows kratom for commercial purposes.

(8) “Processor” means a person or entity that processes, distributes, sells, or offers for sale, kratom or kratom products in this state on a wholesale basis to a retailer.

(9) “Retailer” means a person or entity that distributes, offers for sale, or sells kratom or kratom products to persons for personal consumption.