Botanical packaging varies enormously in quality. Some brands tell you everything; others tell you almost nothing. Here is what a good label includes and what its absence should tell you — whether you are buying kratom, kava, kanna or cat’s claw. 1. The botanical name A good label gives the Latin binomial, not just a…
Cat’s claw gets its name from thorns, not cats. It is one of the newer additions to our botanical shelf at KC Smokz, and one most customers have heard of without knowing much about it. The plant Cat’s claw (Uncaria tomentosa) is a woody vine native to the Amazon rainforest and other tropical regions of…
We have expanded our botanical shelf. Alongside the kratom and CBD we have carried for years, KC Smokz now stocks kava, kanna and cat’s claw at our Westport store on Broadway Blvd. These are three completely unrelated plants from three different continents. Customers often lump them together simply because they sit on the same shelf,…
