Month: December 2019

Cannabis businesses and regulators made news in several other ways this year ... Cannabis regulators alerted industry participants in October of warnings from the Maryland Department of Health and U.S ...

Other public companies that have or will have retail stores include Curaleaf, which has a pending acquisition of Grassroots Cannabis, Harvest Health & Recreation, which has a pending acquisition ...

“At the same time,” he continued, “there is no evidence to indicate that kratom is safe or effective for any medical use. To protect the public health, we’ll continue to affirm the risks associated ...

Lawmakers across the United States continue to debate the safety of kratom, an opioid-containing plant that has been listed as a “drug of concern” by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. It's sold by kratom vendors over the counter in specialty stores and online. Substance use disorders are a major health concern in the U.S. and a growing number of people suffering from these diseases are self-medicating with kratom to help break a cycle of dependence. After tobacco, the most commonly abused substance in the U.S. is alcohol with nearly 15 million people diagnosed with an alcohol use disorder. A Purdue University-led team published a paper in the Nov. 8 edition of the British Journal of Pharmacology examining the effects of kratom and the potential impacts on people with alcohol use...

Somsak has said that kratom leaves did not match the narcotics characteristics specified by World Health Organization (WHO ... Also, it is better than morphine 13 times in killing pain.” he said. - ...

Veteran Richard Manning says that using cannabis regularly to cope with his physical pain, rage and PTSD helped him kick prescription opioids and alcohol. (Courtesy of Richard Manning/Kaiser Health ...

Over one and a half tons of kratom were recently seized in Turkey at the Istanbul Airport. A drug sniffing dog detected kratom powder in dozens of packages wrapped in plastic. “Subject to numerous ...

In addition to its existing Health Canada license, which authorized cannabis cultivation and sales ... For more information about Aurora, please visit our investor website, investor.auroramj.com This ...

One issue of note is regulatory agency Health Canada and its inability to effectively work though ... It should be particularly noticeable for those with a lot of inventory, such as Aurora Cannabis.