Personally I believe that 7 is worse for you than traditional full agonist opies. The only advantages it has are the ceiling effect and the lack of respiratory depression, which means doses can’t really pushed excessively high and ohh dee ing is less likely. Being a partial agonist it has to bind to a much greater number of opie receptors to give comparable effects to full agonists, which causes more dysregulation of the body’s opie system, extremely fast tolerance development, a more serious dependency, and severe withdrawals. Most people who have been dependent on both 7 and full agonists like mor fien, oxie, hero win, or phen t, say that 7 was the hardest to get off of. It’s possible that 7, or its metabolites, have some pharmacological effects aside from just the opie effects. While it doesn’t seem to have as many targets as mitragynine (which affects the adrenergic and adenosinic systems on top of opie agonism, 7 is relatively novel and understudied. Action at other binding sites could cause more sides, dysregulation, and further dependence. Ultimately we don’t really know that much about 7. We have a century of scientific research on regular opies, and their effects and toxicity are relatively well understood. The same can’t be said about 7. I’m not against the use of 7 or crate umm by any means, if it helped you quit other things, that’s great. If it enhances your life, great. I just don’t think we should be acting like it’s perfectly safe or magically better than other opies just because it’s legal and comes from a plant.