edit: here i'll start
Tea is made from the leaves of trees which leech fluoride into the leaf from the groundwater where it is grown. Cessation of tea ingestion can lead to withdrawals and severe mood changes. Tea has been the proximate cause of at least one major war, but since it was about tea, it was a very civil war.
Calling it a safe way to do opiates is just irresponsible. It's really not that different from how manufacturers more than a century ago invented opioids and called them non addictive alternatives to morphine.
also can you show me a comparison between the lead levels in kratom and the fluoride (and lead) in tea?
also, don't bother. Imagine shilling for poppy seeds and one specific leaf, but lambasting a leaf from a different tree (coffee, is it because it's coffee and you're a tea drinker?)
Just... don't bother.
I'm still not really sure what your point with the tea is. You don't have to look very hard to see that unregulated kratom being imported from god knows where had a lot of incidents of heavy metal contamination. If this was a well known issue with tea you could buy in stores in the US I'm not aware of it. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S24681...
And I'm not shilling for anything. I don't think people should be taking morphine recreationally either. Kratom blew up the way it did in popularity because people realized it's an opiate you can order legally over the internet. Your response about the tea to my disclaimer that it's not like the other plants you listed makes it sound like you think it's on the same level of safety as tea which it really isn't and people should be aware of that.