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Connecticut Hearing Challenges Proposed Kratom Ban

Connecticut Hearing Challenges Proposed Kratom Ban

Connecticut lawmakers are rethinking a proposed kratom ban after a seven-hour public hearing drew over 100 testimonies. Advocates, including the American Kratom Association and researchers...
Connecticut Hearing Challenges Proposed Kratom Ban

Connecticut Hearing Challenges Proposed Kratom Ban

Connecticut lawmakers are rethinking a proposed kratom ban after a seven-hour public hearing drew over 100 testimonies. Advocates, including the American Kratom Association and researchers...
Will kratom be banned in Indonesia? AKA addresses rumors

Will kratom be banned in Indonesia? AKA addresses rumors

  A federal fight for access to kratom appears to be spilling across international borders. Rumors have spread that kratom could potentially be banned in...
Advocates push for kratom regulations to be passed in New York

Advocates push for kratom regulations to be passed in New York

For the third legislative session in four years, lawmakers in New York are taking up the question of kratom’s legal status in the state, with...
A nice warm spring evening in Baton Rouge at Louisana State Capitol.

Louisiana Aims To Protect Consumers Instead Of Kratom Ban

An attempt to ban kratom in Louisiana is on the verge of backfiring thanks to a late push from a competing bill and a compromise...
$3 million worth of legal kratom products seized by government

$3 million worth of legal kratom products seized by government

  Authorities in Oklahoma seized $3 million worth of kratom at the behest of the Food and Drug Administration in the latest attempt by the...
American and Texas state flags flying on the dome of the Texas State Capitol building in Austin

Texas lawmakers allow access to safe kratom with new law

  In the wake of a failed attempt last legislative session, Texas lawmakers codified protections for kratom with what could quite literally be described as...
NEW JERSEY LAW inscription on the book. New Jersey residents are subject to New Jersey state and U.S. federal laws

New Jersey joins other states to pursue kratom regulation

Trenton, New Jersey, United States of America – September 6, 2016. Senate Chamber of New Jersey State House in Trenton, NJ. This is where the...
Escambia County, Alabama Sheriffs Department police car

Alabama woman arrested for only $50 of kratom product

An Alabama woman is facing drug trafficking charges for $50 worth of kratom product that was purchased legally in a state just hundreds of feet...
Florida Aims To Establish Kratom Consumer Protection Acts

Florida Aims To Establish Kratom Consumer Protection Acts

Last week, the state of Florida took on a question that has popped up in the wake of proposed kratom bans, and from other similar...
Virginia state capitol building in Richmond

Virginia Establishes Kratom Regulation With New Laws

  A roller coaster ride of a legislative session came to an end for kratom advocates in Virginia after the governor signed protections for kratom...
Indiana Fails to Legalize Kratom in Latest Legislative Session

Indiana Fails to Legalize Kratom in Latest Legislative Session

  An attempt to overturn a kratom ban got ‘halfway there’ in the Indiana state house, but will now have to wait until next year...