SARATOGA COUNTY, NY (WRGB) \u2014 Another county in the Capital Region is considering a ban on Kratom. <\/p>\n
Saratoga County Board of Supervisors announced on Friday that the Public Safety Committee approved a ban on Kratom products being sold in the county. <\/p>\n
The legislation will be considered by the Law and Finance Committee and by the Board of Supervisors at the September 15th meeting.<\/p>\n
PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Governor signs consumer protection bills regulating kratom sales in New York<\/a><\/p>\n Kratom is a plant whose leaves are often used to self-treat conditions. However, it contains a compound known as 7-OH that can be concentrated and sold as gummies or tablets, and has been linked to overdose deaths.<\/p>\n Albany County announced a Kratom ban <\/a>in August; shortly after, Rensselaer County announced a proposal <\/a>to also ban the sale of Kratom products.<\/p>\n Back in December, the governor signed a package of bills that regulate the sale of Kratom products in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARATOGA COUNTY, NY (WRGB) \u2014 Another county in the Capital Region is considering a ban on Kratom. Saratoga…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-339133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}