Tragic Ole Miss student bought Smax Pseudo-DHM kratom from raided store: court docs

An Ole Miss freshman found dead in his room bought kratom from a drug store that has since been raided – with staffers caught warning undercover cops not to buy the illegal pills because “people were dying,” court documents claimed.

Aidan Hamilton, 18, visited the Puffs smoke shop in Oxford on Sept. 9 and Sept. 14 to buy Smax Pseudo-DHM, a chewable form of the herbal supplement that’s illegal to sell there — the final trip coming one week before his suspected overdose death, WMC reported.

It’s the first time that the shop has been explicitly linked to the Ole Miss investigation the sudden deaths of Hamilton and Robert Strang...