Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Drinks containing kava and/or kratom have been marketed as mood lifters and energy boosters, however, some consumers say the ...

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Finding ways to destress can be hard — you can try yoga, going for a walk or meditation — but sometimes there’s a desire for a magic little potion that could chill you out without any unwanted effects ...

Welcome back to FTW’s Beverage of the Week series. Here, we mostly chronicle and review beers, but happily expand that scope to any beverage that pairs well with sports. Yes, even cookie dough whiskey ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Knoxville has at least two Kava and Kratom bars — offering products that have been advertised as alternatives to alcohol and drugs, producing mind-altering effects similar to ...

Chloe Benhaim, owner of the newly opened Wana Navu Kava Bar in Fayetteville, might be the only bar owner around who will admit her drinks taste “like dirt.” Still, nearly every day for the past 20 ...

Tobly McSmith has had his kava bar Here & Now shuttered by inspectors from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene twice in the year and a half since it first opened on Allen and Bowery. “We’ve ...

Sacred Waters is a kava bar with locations in Lakewood and North Olmsted. An alternative to alcohol that is growing in popularity across the country has made its way to Ohio: kava drinks. Several kava ...

At 5 p.m. on a spring Wednesday, all of the stools were already occupied by a kaleidoscope of characters. Most were self-acknowledged “crunchy hippies,” and more than one was barefoot. But then there ...