Items tagged with kratom
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| Czech government wants to regulate kratom and other psychoactive substances [31.08.2023] | The Czech government has decided in favour of regulating, rather than banning, the sale of kratom, CBD or HHC products. A proposed bill to that effec ... |
| Ban, ignore or regulate? Kratom and the Whac-A-Mole world of soft drugs [19.04.2023] | It’s a leaf, it’s sold as a dye, and it’s used as a drug: It’s kratom, and it’s all the rage in the Czech Republic. Kratom is among the dozens of psy ... |
| A global fight looms over Kratom, a possible opioid alternative [09.10.2021] | A World Health Organization meeting could determine the future of kratom, a widely available herbal supplement some tout as an alternative to opioid ... |
| Decriminalisation of kratom hailed by rights advocates [24.08.2021] | The decriminalisation of kratom, long used as a herbal remedy but which some health regulators around the world have criticised as potentially unsafe ... |
| 8,000 to be cleared after kratom's removal from narcotics list [10.08.2021] | More than 8,000 convicted people and suspects will be cleared of legal charges when kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) is removed from the narcotics list on ... |
| Campaign for legal kratom use nears goal [24.06.2021] | After being listed as an illegal narcotic for many decades, Thais will finally be allowed to use and own Mitragyna speciosa, also known as kratom, as ... |
| House okays bid to legalise consumption of kratom [28.01.2021] | Kratom will soon be removed from the narcotics list and cultivated as a new cash crop, after the House passed an amendment to the 1979 Narcotics Act. ... |
| Welcome to kava culture: A spreading alternative to reduce anxiety [20.12.2019] | Kava, or Piper methysticum, is a tropical evergreen shrub in the nightshade family, native to the South Pacific islands, including Vanuatu, Fiji, Haw ... |
| Most people accept medical use of marijuana: Nida Poll [28.05.2019] | An opinion survey found 86% of respondents support the medical use of marijuana and kratom, 39% think authorities can control its use, and 59% want i ... |
| Medical cannabis moving ahead in Thailand, but who stands to benefit? [14.05.2019] | 25th December of 2018 was a historical day for cannabis enthusiasts in Thailand. The (interim) Parliament voted, 166-to-0, to pass new amendments to ... |
| Methamphetamine use in Myanmar, Thailand, and Southern China: assessing practices, reducing harms [15.02.2019] | Over the past decade, methamphetamine use has grown more popular in Myanmar, Thailand and Southern China. Based on in-depth interviews conducted with ... |
| Farmers giddy over new medical marijuana law [26.12.2018] | Thai farmers welcomed a new law allowing cultivation and use of marijuana for medical purposes, in an Asian first that promises an economic bonanza b ... |
| Govt pressed for new law on marijuana and kratom [01.10.2018] | Academics and medical practitioners are pushing for swift legislative reform to legalise the medical use of marijuana and kratom, saying current laws ... |
| Reform of drug laws begins as bill passes first reading [17.06.2018] | The National Legislative Assembly passed by a landslide vote the three narcotics control policy bills, which are an effort by authorities to reform o ... |
| FDA is using 'bad science' by claiming kratom is an opioid [09.03.2018] | Last month, the Food the plant has been imported for years because of its popularity and safe use in Asia. |
| Decriminalise kratom, make it an energy drink: doctor [22.08.2017] | A leading traditional medicine practitioner has renewed calls for kratom to be removed from the list of banned narcotics and said it could be used to ... |
| Congress is considering a bill that would expand Jeff Sessions’s power to escalate the war on drugs [16.06.2017] | Congress is considering a bill that would expand the federal government's ability to pursue the war on drugs, granting new power to the attorney gene ... |
| Paiboon stands by delisting pot, krathom plan [18.11.2016] | Justice Minister Paiboon Koomchaya from Thailand is standing firm in his aim to remove krathom and marijuana from the narcotic drugs list and treat t ... |
| What’s next for kratom after the DEA blinks on its emergency ban? [16.10.2016] | Researchers and users of kratom were stunned by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s abrupt withdrawal of its stated plan to place the Southeast Asi ... |
| The DEA is withdrawing a proposal to ban another plant after the Internet got really mad [12.10.2016] | The Drug Enforcement Administration is reversing a widely criticized decision that would have banned the use of kratom, a plant that researchers say ... |
| Congress calls out DEA for unilateral move to expand the war on drugs [25.09.2016] | A bipartisan group of House lawmakers are asking the Drug Enforcement Administration to reconsider its decision to place the herbal supplement kratom ... |
| The DEA wants to ban another plant [14.09.2016] | The Drug Enforcement Administration has received a torrent of backlash from patients with chronic pain and former opiate users after announcing plans ... |
| DEA’s sudden 'herbal heroin' ban triggers stiff resistance from kratom community [31.08.2016] | An increasingly popular plant product called "herbal heroin" by detractors is about to become illegal in the United States. The Drug Enforcement Admi ... |
| Is kratom the new bath salts? [26.02.2016] | The botanical substance is both a stimulant and a sedative. It is common and illegal in Thailand, where it grows naturally, but little-known and larg ... |
| Kratom criminalisation successfully shelved in Malaysia [02.04.2015] | The increasingly widespread use of ketum (or kratom) in Malaysia earlier this year prompted the Ministry of Home Affairs to lead a push to schedule i ... |
| Time for a Wake-up Call [26.12.2014] | The chemically-based frame of reference adopted by the UN Single Convention is mistaken in the culturally loaded and falsely “scientific” manner in w ... |
| Decision yet to be reached on making 'kratom' legal [03.10.2013] | Public Health Minister Pradit Sintavanarong confirmed yesterday that the narcotics control committee under the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ... |
| Should kratom use be legal? [29.09.2013] | The leaves of kratom, a native of Southeast Asia in the coffee family, are used to relieve pain and improve mood as an opiate substitute and stimulan ... |
| Thailand’s cure for meth addiction? A leafy jungle stimulant [16.09.2013] | The legal status of kratom is under review in Thailand. Options include making kratom available only by prescription, decriminalizing small amounts a ... |
| Minister proposes to legalise krathom use [30.08.2013] | Justice Minister Chaikasem Nitisiri said he is considering the possibility of legalising krathom leaves with one of the options being to use the plan ... |
| Expert Seminar on Herbal Stimulants and Legal Highs [30.10.2011] | A grey area has emerged between what is legal and what is not as states struggle with how to respond to the many new synthetic compounds emerging ont ... |
| 'Legal highs' [21.10.2011] | This paper aims to set out some of the policy and public health issues raised by the appearance of a wide range of emergent psychoactive substances o ... |
| Kratom in Thailand [01.04.2011] | In early 2010, the Thai Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) developed a policy proposal to review different aspects of the criminal justice ... |
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