While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seems to grasp for any reachable straw to ban kratom, including now involving the World Health Organization (WHO), Thailand has officially made use of the herb legal. Kratom, which belongs to the same family as coffee, is a botanical that reportedly helps millions of people with everything […]
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Please include attribution to Top Extracts with this graphic. For those who are already familiar or simply curious about Mitragyna Speciosa (kratom), a plant closely related in chemical makeup to the coffee plant…have you ever explored the botanical’s fascinating history? To those who are just beginning to research the herb that hails from Southeast Asia,
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Wayne Forrest is living proof that having a passion can take you to faraway places you could’ve never otherwise imagined. In fact, it is effectively how Forrest came to be the President of the American Indonesian Chamber of Commerce, a position he has held since 1988. It was Forrest’s zeal for Indonesian music that ultimately
Pete Candland is not only a family man whose passion for people shines, but also a true warrior in the fight to keep kratom legal. He serves as the Executive Director for the American Kratom Association (AKA), where he is constantly rooting for the herb, and especially the people who reap its benefits. Politics are
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At a press conference held on January 28, 2021, the American Kratom Association (AKA) announced a finding that the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) declared “mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine [the main alkaloids present in kratom] not be controlled at this time, either temporarily or permanently, until scientific research can sufficiently support such an action.”
As I clicked on the Zoom video in anticipation for an interview with American Kratom Association (AKA) Senior Fellow on Public Policy, Mac Haddow, it was immediately apparent how involved and dedicated he is about the United States. Sitting tall in front of his American and Virginia State flags, along with family photos, it was
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When thinking about those who benefit from kratom, many get skewed images in their minds due to the media’s coverage of the herb. And who can blame them, when countless times outright lies have been published, including so-called deaths attributed to kratom? What they don’t realize is that in each of the autopsies performed for
Veterans for Kratom: How the Plant Saved a War Hero’s Life & Why He Won’t Back Down Read More »
Take a trip down memory lane and try to remember your first job. You were likely excited, nervous, with an array of other emotions. Perhaps it was a summertime job you landed as a teen – which is the case for 56-year-old Dijon Evans, a devout kratom advocate from California. In June of 1979, Evans
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you are someone who benefits from the herb kratom, and hear there is a proposed ban coming to your area, it is completely normal to panic. Why do they want to ban something that so many clearly get such positive results from? People whose lives are turned around. People who become accomplished, contributing members of
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