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Board of Health approves ordinance prohibiting kratom products.

Methuen Board of Health unanimously approves ordinance banning kratom manufacturing and sales. Members Francesca Rogato, Donald Marcus, and Traci Lavigne Milnes voted to prohibit the unregulated product, which can activate opioid-like brain receptors and carries documented withdrawal symptoms

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Government · Board of Health

Board of Health denies kratom prohibition, tables final reading.

The Methuen Board of Health tabled its proposed emergency regulation banning synthetically derived cannabinoids, kratom products, and unregulated novel intoxicants, requesting additional time for board review before April 9. In a related enforcement action, the board upheld a one-thousand-dollar

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