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kava abuse

Driving Under the Influence of Kava

September 11, 2012

Aloha everyone! Makaira here! I hope you’re all enjoying some pleasant fall weather, and that those of you who have headed back for another year of school are settling in well after a relaxing summer vacation. I’ve been noticing a rather disturbing trend in recent mentions of kava in the news, and decided that a [...]

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Fighting The Australian Kava Ban

January 10, 2012

Aloha everyone! Welcome to a brand new year! I hope everyone else is having as wonderful a new year as I am so far! I can definitely tell that this year is going to bring a great many wonderful things and many new revelations and beginnings! Speaking of new beginnings, one of my friends who [...]

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Do Kava and Alcohol Combine?

January 1, 2010

For some reason, as kava drinking gets more popular in the United States, we find that we get asked the question about whether kava and alcohol mix more and more often!  I’m not sure why, but we’ve now been asked enough that I decided to devote a post to discuss whether it might be dangerous [...]

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Life in Balance

January 29, 2009

Aloha! It was interesting to read a recent news report in the Fiji Daily Post on a research study proclaiming Fijian women consume more kava than men. This research also made the claim that kava brings overall “laziness to the community.” The article mentioned the research being conducted in two “major yaqona consuming villages,” although [...]

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