China Bans Drink Purporting to be Kava That Was Found to Contain GHB
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verticity
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That's crazy. Maybe Google Translate can help:
"The history of carbazole
Posted: 2017-08-24
After the 20th century, 90 years after the Kawasaki swept Europe and the United States, it has a wonderful effect, can give people peace, happiness, no side effects, is the South Pacific "French wine", carbazole a variety of products to more than 100 kinds of drinking carbazole Wow has gradually become a social fashion
In 2005, carbazole was first introduced to China, but then did not cause a greater response
Until 2015, the domestic first trip journey to explore the variety show "to the end of the world" in Jiangsu TV premiere. In the first show, the big Zhang Wei, Bo Xueliang led the travels of people set foot on the South Pacific island of Vanuatu, in Vanuatu production and drinking "the happiest drink - carbazole" special drinks, causing domestic attention to carbazole.
Today, a fashionable carbazole drink - carbazole 100, appear in the fashion people's party and party, in the nightclub, KTV, party party, more and more young people like this tide drink
Kawasaki wine "series of products, as a" alternative wine "of the new category, although the name of" wine ", but in fact no alcoholic beverages, drink after the" wine is not wine, wine like wine, drunk drunk, more healthy " The magic effect.
"Carbazole 100" does not contain ethanol, especially the addition of GABA, is a more healthy drink, good taste, after drinking to relax the brain, ease the oppressive sense of the drinkers, the release of stress.
Cuckoo is called wine, in fact, not a wine, but a kind of carbazole with the root of the root made of mild drinks, Latin name "piper methysticum", also known as "intoxicated pepper."
I guess on the bright side it does seem that the Chinese authorities do understand that this contains GHB and in fact has nothing at all to do with real kava, and that this product is not kava. But the above hilariously mistranslated ad copy does make me wonder if Chinese activity in Vanuatu has made people there aware of kava. Could China actually become a consumer market for kava products as opposed to a place where they are manufactured for export? I don't know if that would be such a good thing because--and maybe I'm being prejudiced here--if Australia, Europe, and to some extent the US, have such a hard time getting kava "right", I'm afraid China will get it even more wrong based on what I have seen of the kava products coming out of there...Posted: 2017-08-24
After the 20th century, 90 years after the Kawasaki swept Europe and the United States, it has a wonderful effect, can give people peace, happiness, no side effects, is the South Pacific "French wine", carbazole a variety of products to more than 100 kinds of drinking carbazole Wow has gradually become a social fashion
In 2005, carbazole was first introduced to China, but then did not cause a greater response
Until 2015, the domestic first trip journey to explore the variety show "to the end of the world" in Jiangsu TV premiere. In the first show, the big Zhang Wei, Bo Xueliang led the travels of people set foot on the South Pacific island of Vanuatu, in Vanuatu production and drinking "the happiest drink - carbazole" special drinks, causing domestic attention to carbazole.
Today, a fashionable carbazole drink - carbazole 100, appear in the fashion people's party and party, in the nightclub, KTV, party party, more and more young people like this tide drink
Kawasaki wine "series of products, as a" alternative wine "of the new category, although the name of" wine ", but in fact no alcoholic beverages, drink after the" wine is not wine, wine like wine, drunk drunk, more healthy " The magic effect.
"Carbazole 100" does not contain ethanol, especially the addition of GABA, is a more healthy drink, good taste, after drinking to relax the brain, ease the oppressive sense of the drinkers, the release of stress.
Cuckoo is called wine, in fact, not a wine, but a kind of carbazole with the root of the root made of mild drinks, Latin name "piper methysticum", also known as "intoxicated pepper."
So they A) sold something other than Kava as Kava and B) used GHB, of all things, without even telling people it's GHB in there. That's wrong on so many levels.
If China starts producing Kava, I definitely won't trust it enough to stop buying from the suppliers I buy from now. I have a strong feeling in my gut that it'll be all sorts of sketchy and quantity-over-quality.
verticity
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China is already producing "kava products", mainly crappy extracts, for export. The new thing here would be if it really is becoming more popular there domestically. That would be hugely significant because of the size of that market.
kastom_lif
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There's enough risk of GBH from Chinese extracts without actual GHB in them. Wow.
Zac Imiola (Herbalist)
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@verticity agreed..
I quickly jumped on Google to buy some, but it appears the product is just too Chinese for me to find.
The bad association with kava aside, it's quite scary to think a beverage with unknown amounts of GHB in it, was available to the public, seemingly without any warnings. GHB has one of the most extreme dosage curves I've heard of, where the line between a good time or being completely blacked out/knocked out is very small. Combining GHB with other sedatives increases the dangers even more so, and not knowing what you are actually drinking is a good way to accidentally combine it with things it shouldn't be combined with.
Their product description isn't a complete fabrication though, it is non-alcoholic, and does make a good (and in many ways, superior) alcohol substitute. It is healthier than alcohol, as GHB is MUCH less toxic, it doesn't destroy the liver or create hangovers and is actually endogenous to the human body in small amounts. (It also appears in red wine sometimes) It is GABAerigic, so while the beverage may not have actually included GABA as an ingredient (which doesn't easily cross the blood brain barrier), the GHB in the beverage will cross the blood brain barrier and create GABA. It will definitely "relax the brain" and "release stress".
Unfortunately GHB can cause similar addiction and dangerous withdrawal symptoms that we're used to seeing with other GABAergics, like alcohol and benzos. That combined with it's incredibly steep dosage curve unfortunately makes this drug too dangerous for the careless un(drug)educated masses.
The bad association with kava aside, it's quite scary to think a beverage with unknown amounts of GHB in it, was available to the public, seemingly without any warnings. GHB has one of the most extreme dosage curves I've heard of, where the line between a good time or being completely blacked out/knocked out is very small. Combining GHB with other sedatives increases the dangers even more so, and not knowing what you are actually drinking is a good way to accidentally combine it with things it shouldn't be combined with.
Their product description isn't a complete fabrication though, it is non-alcoholic, and does make a good (and in many ways, superior) alcohol substitute. It is healthier than alcohol, as GHB is MUCH less toxic, it doesn't destroy the liver or create hangovers and is actually endogenous to the human body in small amounts. (It also appears in red wine sometimes) It is GABAerigic, so while the beverage may not have actually included GABA as an ingredient (which doesn't easily cross the blood brain barrier), the GHB in the beverage will cross the blood brain barrier and create GABA. It will definitely "relax the brain" and "release stress".
Unfortunately GHB can cause similar addiction and dangerous withdrawal symptoms that we're used to seeing with other GABAergics, like alcohol and benzos. That combined with it's incredibly steep dosage curve unfortunately makes this drug too dangerous for the careless un(drug)educated masses.
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