Tag: kava
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Welcome to kava culture: A spreading alternative to reduce anxiety
Friday, 20 December 2019Kava, or Piper methysticum, is a tropical evergreen shrub in the nightshade family, native to the South Pacific islands, including Vanuatu, Fiji, Hawaii and others. Its roots are mashed or ground up ...
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Kava circles keeping young males away from alcohol and gangs, researcher says
Thursday, 22 March 2018A narcotic beverage from the Pacific Islands is being used to counter prejudices about people who use drugs. "Kava is our culture. We lose kava, we lose our culture," Edmond Fehoko says. There is a l ...
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Time for a Wake-up Call
Friday, 26 December 2014The chemically-based frame of reference adopted by the UN Single Convention is mistaken in the culturally loaded and falsely “scientific” manner in which it was applied to different plants. With the ...
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Regulating khat
Sunday, 01 November 2009The regulation of khat, one of the most recent psychoactive drugs to become a globally traded commodity, remains hotly contested within different producer and consumer countries. As regimes vary, it ...
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