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Why Thailand Just Decriminalized a Plant That the US Has Tried To Ban

08.26.21

By Teirra Kamolvattanavith
An Herbal Plant From Southeast Asia Could Be Banned For Being As Addictive As Morphine

07.10.19

By Adi Renaldi
Health

The New Report on Kratom Overdoses Is Scary But Kind of Misleading

04.15.19

By Jesse Hicks
Health

This Bill Could Give Jeff Sessions the Power to Ban Kratom

06.27.18

By Troy Farah
Health

Experts Are Concerned that Kratom Will Become the Next Marijuana

05.01.18

By Troy Farah
Health

People with Chronic Pain Will Protest the CDC’s Crackdown on Opioids

04.05.18

By Troy Farah
Health

People Are Worried That the FDA Is Trying to Ban Kratom

03.13.18

By Jesse Hicks
Health

The Kratom Controversy

02.15.18

By VICE Staff
Health

The FDA Called Kratom an Opioid, Which Is Pretty Misleading

02.08.18

By Jesse Hicks
Drugs

Inside Kratom, the Gas Station Drug That Could End the Opioid Crisis

12.13.17

By Mark Hay
Health

FDA Warns People Not to Use Kratom, Citing 36 Deaths

11.15.17

By Jesse Hicks
News

Kratom is helping this heroin-user break his 6-year addiction

10.26.17

By Seth Dalton

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