C.M. Haddow knows a Georgia narcotics officer who once entered a convenience store in north Georgia and asked if the store carried kratom, a substance commonly found in convenience stores and which many people use as pain relief medication. Not only did the store carry it, but the clerk pointed the officer to the particular […]
Kratom has been the hot topic around Columbus and Lowndes County this week. It’s a topic that comes with a lot of opinions and mixed views. On Monday, WCBI did a story about the product, which led to dozens of comments and emails from dozens of people. We reached out to many of those people who […]
Kratom is becoming very popular as a useful supplement that can help people with many health problems. It can also bring a lot of significant health benefits. Kratom is the brand name for this popular herb found in southeast Asia. Some benefits sound too good to be true, but most of the benefits are true. […]
The relationship between kratom and the feds just got weirder. The federal government may not be friendly to kratom, but the kratom industry sure is being friendly to federal government employees. On Monday, as the US government shutdown reached its 24th day, online kratom vendor Kraken Kratomannounced it is offering free kratom to furloughed federal employees and those working […]
This leaf from Southeast Asia is mostly sold at smoke shops, but it’s now being touted as a natural painkiller. The hype: Kratom, an ancient medicinal leaf from Southeast Asia, is the most recent cure-all to rise from the wellness fringes, particularly among those who frequent head shops for the latest medical breakthroughs. It’s kind of […]
THANK YOU KRATOM WARRIORS! In a meeting of the Ohio Board of Pharmacy this morning on the proposed ban on kratom, the Board decided to defer any action until additional information is obtained on a number of key questions on the science relating to safety and addiction potential of the kratom plant versus adulterated kratom […]
Although there are many ways to prepare kratom, one of the most effective and popular, is tea. The various ways of preparing kratom also alter its effects. Consuming Kratom in tea form offers different advantages and disadvantages in comparison to other preparations such as in resin form or fresh leaves. You will need the following: […]
THURSDAY, Jan. 3, 2019 — The herbal drug kratom, which U.S. drug regulators have said is essentially an opioid, has been linked to some narcotic overdose deaths, but whether it’s dangerous by itself isn’t clear. In a new study, University of Colorado researchers reviewed 15 kratom-related deaths and found that in all but one, other […]
The next and last factor in the study, Factor 8 includes whether kratom is an immediate precursor of a substance already controlled, as well as the conclusion. This is something we need to keep in mind, kratom is NOT morphinans by origin or molecular structure. Neither kratom nor any of the constituents in kratom or its […]
Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) is a tropical evergreen tree in the Rubiaceae family from South East Asia, native to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Over the last decade or so, kratom has wildly gained in popularity in the United States, one such antidote is to help with anxiety. Although some evidence suggests that certain strains of kratom can help […]