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12/04/2017 / By Ralph Flores

Plant cure for opioid addiction taking heat from the FDA: Claims of danger most likely linked to its impact on Big Pharma’s bottom line

Kratom, the popular plant-based opioid alternative from Southeast Asia, was the subject of an advisory from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday, November 14, after the group called the substance “troubling” and blocked hundreds of kratom shipments to the U.S. In their statement, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb reported that there are significant safety […]

11/25/2017 / By Lance D Johnson

FDA’s recent attack on Kratom based on lies and junk science, warns herbal group

“The thing that bugs me is that the people think the FDA is protecting them – it isn’t. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it’s doing are as different as night and day.” These are the words of Dr. Herbert L. Ley Jr., spoken in an interview with the New York […]

11/22/2017 / By JD Heyes

FDA, DEA running massive conspiracy to criminalize Kratom in order to protect Big Pharma’s obscene opioid profits

Federal agencies who have declared a national emergency over the burgeoning opioid epidemic are simultaneously continuing to criminalized kratom, which is a non-addictive, natural plant that has allowed scores of Americans to be weaned off their opioid addictions. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) announced plans to place the substance on the government’s list of Controlled […]

10/30/2017 / By Ethan Huff

GOP senators pushing for alternatives to deadly, addictive opioid prescription drugs… but none of them dare say “cannabis”

In the aftermath of President Trump’s recent speech on the opioid epidemic in America, a number of Republican senators have issued a call for the discovery of new opioid “alternatives,” demanding that Big Pharma step up to procure them. But such alternatives already exist in the form of natural plants like cannabis sativa (marijuana) and […]

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