Drinks are basically diluted with water, the scary stuff is the concentrated pills and powders, especially since companies have put other drugs in there without saying. O-DSMT is a pretty neat weak opioid, but it has respiratory depression like normal opioids, so when a company put it in their Kratom product a number of people died.

Stuff like that is always the most dangerous part of drugs, just like methanol contamination during Prohibition, which is why it’s almost always better to have it legal and regulated, instead of cracked down on. Not every drug in a category needs to be common and over-the-counter, a plurality of Kratom users are using it to get off more dangerous opioids, so I would make Kratom legal everywhere, have it regularly contamination tested, and we could leave all the other opioids all restricted like they already are.