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Maybe don't buy your drugs from gas stations?

According to the coroner, Pope died from intoxication of mitragynine, a psychoactive compound found in kratom.

"When you're selling a drug next to Skittles or energy drinks," Atlanta attorney Matt Wetherington told, "you have no means of knowing that you're dealing with something that is exponentially more dangerous than anything else on the shelf."that "there are no drug products containing kratom or its two main chemical components that are legally on the market in the US.

The FDA also notes that it isn't lawfully marketed as a "drug product, a dietary supplement, or a food additive in conventional food.", a dozen states regulate the substance, while five states have already banned it. Yet it's still widely available in head shops and gas stations, and has become a popular way for people to treat conditions including chronic pain, diarrhea, or even depression, with anAnd business is booming. According to the consumer advocacy group American Kratom Association, which has been advocating for federal rules regarding its consumption, it's aBut scientists are understandably wary of its health effects, especially when consuming highly-concentrated forms of the substance.

"It really brings to bear the question in the marketplace: What is safe? What isn't safe?" Christopher McCurdy, a medicinal chemist at the University of Florida, told

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