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The short answer is yes — kava is legal to buy, sell, possess, and drink everywhere in the United States, and it is not a controlled substance. The longer answer is where the nuance lives: a federal advisory that was never a ban, a regulatory line between "dietary supplement" and "food" that explains why some cities have pushed back on kava bars, age rules that are mostly house custom rather than law, and a patchwork of foreign laws that turns a legal product at home into a banned one in a handful of countries. Here is all of it, attributed and plain — and explicitly not legal advice.
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