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06/27/2018 / By Vicki Batts

BROKEN: FDA regulations are unhelpful for natural healers

The FDA’s regulations are archaic, overbearing and overwhelmingly favor the pharmaceutical industry. The strongest evidence of this is the simple fact that the FDA — a federal agency of unelected officials — does no testing of their own. Instead, they review safety and efficacy data provided to them by drug manufacturers. This alone poises virtually any […]

06/26/2018 / By JD Heyes

FDA finally approves the USA’s first medicine derived from marijuana – is full decriminalization coming next?

In a move tens of millions of Americans never thought they’d live to see, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved the country’s first medicine derived from marijuana, which has led supporters of recreational pot use to believe full decriminalization may be coming next. As reported by STAT, the approval for Epidiolex (cannabidiol) was […]

11/25/2017 / By Lance D Johnson

FDA’s recent attack on Kratom based on lies and junk science, warns herbal group

“The thing that bugs me is that the people think the FDA is protecting them – it isn’t. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it’s doing are as different as night and day.” These are the words of Dr. Herbert L. Ley Jr., spoken in an interview with the New York […]

11/22/2017 / By David Armstrong

Feds block herbal molecule that makes drinking alcohol less dangerous to your liver — Health Ranger

In recent weeks Natural News founder/editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, exposed yet another monumental fail on the part of the federal government: The Feds are actively blocking the public from learning about an herbal molecule from licorice root that can be added to alcoholic beverages to dramatically reduce the liver toxicity caused by alcohol […]

11/19/2017 / By Ethan Huff

Protecting its interests: FDA attacks CBD supplements to protect Big Pharma’s opioid profits

Big Pharma is working overtime to restrict consumer access to cannabidiol, or CBD, a non-psychoactive component of cannabis sativa (marijuana) that’s been shown to help relieve pain, muscle spasms, and other ailments. Using the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as authoritative cover, the industry is quietly leading the charge to ban CBD from being […]

07/13/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Join the Natural News effort to ask President Trump to pardon Amish man Sam Girod, thrown in prison for selling an herbal salve

While violent criminals continue to get shockingly short jail sentences, a Kentucky man has just been given six years behind bars for misbranding herbal products. Sam Girod of Bath County is an Amish farmer who sold homemade treatments for skin problems and sinus infections. When the FDA took issue with a label saying one of […]

07/07/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Amish man slapped with six-year prison sentence for growing and selling his own herbal remedies

On the morning of June 30 2017, a federal judge sentenced an Amish man to six years in prison. His crimes: making and selling herbal health products that were not “adequately labeled”, and obstructing a federal agency. According to TheDailySheeple.com, the farmer, one Samuel A. Girod of Bath County in Kentucky, was convicted last March […]

03/06/2017 / By Natural News Editors

The chemistry behind cannabinoids explains how CBDs are saving lives

Scientists are finally beginning to uncover some of the chemical mechanisms underlying the powerful medical benefits of marijuana and its cannabinoid compounds. The breakthrough came with the discovery of the body’s endocannabinoid system, a biological system based around signaling molecules highly similar to many of the phytocannabinoid (plant-based cannabinoid) compounds found in marijuana (cannabis). Cannabinoid […]

02/24/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Amish farmer facing 68 years in federal prison for making homemade products

When most people imagine their golden years, they don’t envision spending the last decades of their life in a federal prison, but for 56-year-old Samuel Girod, that threat is very real — thanks to the FDA. Girod is facing 68 years in jail for the simple crime of creating his own all-natural homemade products. Father […]

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