Scott Gottlieb, the FDA’s commissioner, called for external studies on the substance, as well. “I encourage you to conduct the research that will help us better understand kratom’s risk and benefit profile, so that well-studied and potentially beneficial products can be considered,” he said. (There was no clarification on how anyone in the US should…
A group is looking for voters to weigh in on whether Oregon would be the first in the nation to legalize psilocybin mushrooms … The measure would have the state create a board that would lay out the rules and regulations within a year of voters approving the legalization. Their measure doesn’t call for recreational…
*Peace Monument in Washington D.C. Could Kratom be the CBD of the opiate world? … Ironically, the greatest danger of Kratom these days is from fake products contaminated with substances approved by the FDA. In rats, there was no observed toxicity following single, huge oral doses up to 806 mg/kg of [mitragyine]. (CBD is also…
Here, I am also seeking to answer, with specificity, which opioids kratom resembles in terms of risk of death. Here, as “similar risk” has been mentioned, I am seeking the documentation and statistical analysis, used by the FDA, that articulates or provides evidence of the “similar risk” of kratom viz a viz other opioids. Additionally,…
The process of determining the legality of a substance—in this case kratom—is not something most laypeople are familiar with. The FDA says they need information from the DEA. The DEA says scientific tests take time and money but if and when they have anything, they’ll surely send it along to the FDA … Lowin said,…
Though it won’t come as much surprise to anyone in the kratom community, it turns out, wonder of wonders, the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) advisory was pulled completely out of nowhere, according to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) material released by Muckrock. The FDA made multiple false claims regarding kratom itself, the way…
Dr. Patrick Luedtke, Lane County’s Chief Medical Officer Lane County Health Officials are back-tracking just a bit from last week’s health warnings on a very popular herbal supplement called Kratom. Officials say they got a lot of blow-back, most of it critical of the County’s stance … [Lane County residents] say the supplement helps for…
The compounds in kratom are also classified as “partial agonists,” meaning, in Kruegel’s words: “They don’t turn on the receptor as fully as you would with morphine or fentanyl, for example. You only get a partial response. That is also protective in terms of respiratory depression side effects.” “If you could come up with a…
Although the FDA’s statement does nothing to officially change kratom’s legal status, it suggests that the federal government could once again be thinking about prohibition … At least one pharmaceutical company is currently working to develop a medication that targets pain with a semi-synthetic compound derived from kratom. Last year, researchers at Columbia University published…
Prior to their expiration, the two patents gave Smith Kline & French during the 1960’s [U.S. Patents 3,256,149 (“Compositions Compromising an Alkaloid of Mitragyna Speciosa and Methods of Using Same”) and 3,324,111 (“Speciofoline, an Alkaloid from Mitragyna Speciosa”) the right to prevent others from making, using, selling, and importing certain alkaloids isolated from kratom, but…
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