Kratom Dispensaries Getting Closer to Reality in Colorado

Kratom, an organic substance touted by its supporters as a pain reliever and addiction fighter, is currently on the same kind of path toward Colorado regulation previously taken by marijuana. And Faith Day, a local kratom entrepreneur who’s already branched out to other states, is optimistic that the product, which is still viewed with suspicion by the federal Food and Drug Administration, will soon earn the state’s blessing.

“The kratom situation is going to be like cannabis, where we’re going to be registered like a dispensary,” she predicts.

Such an outcome would reflect an enormous shift since November 2017, when Denver Environmental Health, the agency now known as the Denver Department of Public Health & Environment, formally banned kratom for human consumption within city limits.

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