DOSE:

4.5 g

oral

Kratom

(capsule)

BODY WEIGHT:

200 lb

30 Days Until Kratom is Made Illegal

With the impending schedule I reclassification of kratom, September 2016 felt like a very natural time to cash in on this historic chance of offering my own testimony. Kratom has saved me from a litany of pharmaceutical treatments for my congenital anxiety and depression, having given me absolutely zero negative side-symptoms and even helping me kick habits I didn’t realize were keeping me down, like excessive drinking. Historically, this is very interesting: how often does one get to witness a substance go from a-okay, “buy it in all 50 states and have fun,” to ‘most illegal of all; NO medicinal benefit, no prescriptions, no research, no nothing.” It is obviously a farce that this substance is being treated this way, but, nothing will stop the people from doing with their bodies what they wish is right. I found kratom to be monstrously cheap as it was, but with vendors needing to sell off their stock ASAP or risk becoming third-degree felons, price cuts are sending wares into homes and bodies all across the country. I was lucky enough to receive from a local Florida vendor who has some of the most potent kratom I’ve enjoyed yet. Prior to my exploration of online kratom, I only ever tried the sort that headshops sell, but these are known to be overpriced and have also yielded very little in terms of effect.

Kratom and I have clicked most specially due to a potentiation I discovered earlier this week. I had capsules and I was not feeling like toss n’ wash would be too gross with the miniscule amount of OJ I had left, so I opted to instead swallow nine 0.5g powdered kratom caps and then immediately drink a hot cup of chamomile tea. I have had success with this method before regarding other capsuled substances; I can almost feel/taste when the tea breaks them open, and the effects can come on just as strongly as if I ingested it in mouthful form.

DOSE/STRAIN: 8oz cup of chamomile tea steeped to instruction + 4.5g dried Red Borneo kratom (prior to this experience, my strongest kratom trip came from a green maeng da Red strains always give me more of a body buzz and I find this to be very motivating and creativity-inducing).

9:45AM [T-0]: I wait for my tea to be a chuggable-but-very-warm temperature, so that I don’t have to sip on it and risk a scald ruining my good morning of productivity. Swallowing each capsule one by one and with a tiny bit of lukewarm water (even with the tea not being too hot, it’s too hard and I don’t want to risk a cap breaking in my mouth. that has happened and it is VERY gross), I get down all four and a half grams and I enjoy my beverage while listening to some hypnagogic pop and planning out my priorities for the day ahead.

9:50AM [T+0:05]: One thing I will mention: the only thing close to a ‘side-effect’ I’ve had from kratom is a little bit of constipation after use. This is no different from the phenomenon of ‘alcohol shits’, (in fact I’d say it’s a lot less painful to my sensitive gastric system than rum or tequila ever was!). One of my favorite things about the tea is that it allows me to do my bathroom business before any of kratom’s effects kick in. I make use of this as soon as I notice.

10:05AM [T+0:20]: in my opinion, there is nothing psychoactive about kratom in its first 30 minutes. I think the party really starts between one hour and 90 minutes, but that’s just me and at the doses I feel most comfy taking. One of my favorite things to do while waiting for the comeup is to try and get engaged with a video, a book, some project I intended to work on later… the best feeling is when the kratom comes on and I don’t notice because, rather than announcing its ‘I’m on!’ with a sensation, I find that my interest gets eternally piqued with whatever it is I’m doing at the moment onset begins. This is not just kratom, but many stimulants. I was prescribed Adderall and would say that on the highest doses I felt this same way. Kratom is a much safer way to feel this and accomplish the same tasks. Anyway, for this particular trip, I decided to play with the cat. The family cat normally does NOT like me and skitters away when I enter a room, but I have now [3] times on kratom been able to approach her and cuddle her, something a sober me has never been allowed to do. I wonder why this is, and if the kratom in any way affects this (be it the scent, her being able to note my heart rate is different and therefore maybe she’s mistaking my identity for another human, endocrine secretion… who knows!).

10:25AM [T+0:40]: It’s starting! I normally wait three days in between kratom usage but sometimes I only wait two. This was an experience from the latter, roughly 48-50 hours after taking a dose of roughly the same size but without the chamomile potentiator. Chamomile tea always makes me sleepy in a “I want to converse with everyone” sort of way. I cannot describe it, but imagine if the unbridled euphoria of hydrocodone met the ‘social butterfly mode’ of MDMA. Chamomile is, granted, VERY weak on its own, but with the kratom in me too, I feel like I’m getting the best of both worlds. Kratom is best characterized as ON for me by a tingling in the knees and elbows (or the mid-extremities). I know of no other substance that can make me feel this way, except maybe a memory of my time as a runner in the early ‘10s. It feels like I can sense my potential for energy, rather than just knowing it’s there and having to pull it out of me with great propensity. Most days (without kratom or pharmacological aid) can be like this.

(just a side-bar. I would say marijuana and kratom are hand-in-hand for me in terms of helping me squash my congenital mental defects. however, marijuana in the nearest legal state (for sale) would cost $600 (50 grams) where this kratom was obtained for $11 and free shipping. 50 grams. Can you imagine buying 50 grams of marijuana for eleven dollars? Of course, I use significantly less pot than I do kratom per sitting, but it is amazing to think how much more affordable ol’ K is compared to Mary J. A date even I can afford!)

10:45AM [T+ONE HOUR]: Without disclosing too much about myself, I get to make mixtapes for a living. My job and goal is to attract new subscribers for the channel I work for, and to do so with content that might appeal to a general aesthetic or theme. I brainstormed two of the very best mixes of my life on the kratom+chamomile of this particular September day, and it all started at around the one-hour mark. I find that kratom (and similar substances) work as ‘idea lubricant’, so that I can much more quickly cycle through all the potential mixes I might make. the possibilities are quasi-endless, and I am happy to report one of the two mixes made under the influence of kratom is now one of the top 3 EVER viewed on the channel. (The anonymity is killing me and I wish I could link it here for reference but I will not. Let’s just say that I picked sounds that I know would feel very good on kratom; visceral beats and smooth jazzy wonderment. that’s the spirit sound of this substance, in my opinion.)

11:00AM to 12:00PM [T+1:15 to T+2:15]: this entire hour is best characterized as ‘brainstorming turned actualizing’, as the drafts for the mixtapes I worked on all hour were starting to be compiled in my video editor. Something about the sound of these songs, despite being all tunes that I’ve known for months, feel SO fresh. I remember being disappointed when I first smoked pot in the late ‘00s because I thought music would sound significantly different, when in fact pot just changed my taste in music and helped me appreciate sounds in a different light. Kratom does the same thing that dextroamphetamine does to my intake of sound: it makes me find something to love and appreciate, no matter what genre or what mood I might be in. As someone who listens to music for a living, I can say this is NOT the norm, and again, a kind of ‘lube’ for helping me figure out what I like and why I like it. The ability for introspection and habit-recognition while on kratom is vast, and this hour was definitely the most powerful (as it should be. the first three hours are always a blast and the latter three hours are usually a very relaxing B-side complement).

12:05PM to 1:15PM [T+2:20 to T+3:30]: I love what kratom can do. There is an opportunity I’ve been trying to make happen since roughly last Christmas, and I procrastinated and dawdled for eight to nine months while being too afraid to set things into motion. In just a little over an hour, with the right mindset and a tingle still radiating in waves from my mid-extremities, I succeeded at drafting exactly what I had to do to make said idea a reality. The whole reason I came to pharmacological-alteration as a interest is that my procrastination (usually brought on by aforementioned anxiety or self-worth issues) domineers my life. Kratom may not be a magic solution that makes me mysteriously do the things I wished I could do, but it certainly equips me to suss out what I need to do with my day and the direction of my life. My trajectory can be altered happily and significantly due to kratom and I see the “doing a task I stressed about for 9 months, in ONE HOUR” as one of the most miracle-like things that it can do. Again, this is just for me. I know that not everybody gets that unique benefit from the plant, but the fact that some organisms among us do is all the reason more for compassion and allowance.

1:45PM to 3:45PM [T+4 hours to end of experience]: The kratom lasted about as long as most doses for me do: 5.5 to 6 hours, though I felt like it was headstrong in that I made it to 4 hours in to feel it dissipating instead of the usual 3. A day on kratom can go one of two ways for me: I might be sad when I get to this stage, especially if I was not productive or actualizing enough. On this report though, I was very happy with my day’s work, and even once it had entirely worn off I felt an optimism that I almost never feel by the afternoon / early evening. All in all, this was a very enjoyable experience, one of about a dozen I’d had by that point and hopefully the first of many in this September free-for-all, the last hurrah of legality for a wunderplant that should be in every household’s medicine cabinet.

Exp Year: 2016	ExpID: 109170
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: 24
Published: Jan 7, 2026	Views: Not Supported
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