North Dakota lawmakers on Monday advanced two complementary proposals to regulate kratom and ban synthetic substances. The bill drafts, the result of a Kratom Working Group, will be considered in September during a special session called by Gov. Kelly Armstrong to address the substance’s lack of regulation in North Dakota. A bill draft proposed by […]
North Dakota lawmakers have four proposals for restricting kratom and more than a dozen on other topics for a special session beginning next month, according to draft legislation made public on Friday. A top legislative panel meets Monday to decide which bill drafts from 20 proposals to advance to the special session, which begins Sept. […]
On a chilly night this past February, Andrew Wood died alone in his bed after consuming a kratom product purchased legally at a Brunswick vape shop. He was 24. According to his mother and girlfriend, who found his body, the former Brunswick High School student had been consuming the psychoactive substance for months and thought […]
North Dakota lawmakers are grappling with how to restrict kratom and related products after a stream of testimony Wednesday from people including a concerned mother, a smoke shop owner, medical professionals and others with varying views on the substance the governor recently banned. The Legislature’s Kratom Working Group heard the testimony as it works on […]
North Dakota lawmakers on Friday began talks about restricting kratom and related substances, part of a process the public will get to weigh in on next week. Lawmakers are preparing for a special session next month called by Republican Gov. Kelly Armstrong to consider prohibiting and regulating aspects of kratom products, including criminal penalties. Kratom […]
An agreement with Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway will bar the owners of St. Louis-based Green Dragon from selling kratom products in the state, the latest development in her office’s crackdown on 7-OH and related substances. Under the agreement announced Thursday, Green Dragon and owners David and Matthew Jadwin cannot own, operate or hold a […]
Kratom and derivative products are now illegal in North Dakota just days after Gov. Kelly Armstrong announced a ban on the substance and related derivatives. Lawmakers are preparing to draft legislation restricting kratom for a special session. The attorney general has announced how to dispose of kratom products. And police and prosecutors will be dealing […]
Governor Josh Stein said Tuesday it is “premature” to say if he will sign House Bill 328, legislation that would ban intoxicating hemp products in the state. Stein, a Democrat, has long called on state lawmakers to ban the sale of intoxicating hemp products to anyone under 21. H328 would go a step beyond that, […]
Jamie Selzler, an active leader of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party, will take Fargo Mayor Josh Boschee’s seat in the state Senate, the District 44 Dem-NPL executive committee announced Tuesday. Selzler, a former executive director of the Dem-NPL Party, has served as the state’s Democratic National Committeeman for the past three years and has been […]
North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong on Monday declared a public health emergency banning all kratom products and called a special session of the Legislature for September to further address enforcement. Kratom is a substance derived from a tropical tree in Southeast Asia that officials say can be synthesized into highly potent forms and put into […]
