DOSE:
2 g
oral
Kratom
(ground / crushed)
[ This experience report first appeared as an article in Erowid Extracts issue #27 ]
For the last year and a half or so, I've gone on fairly regular kratom jags. When I'm enjoying kratom, I take it 2-3 times a day in raw powder form, washed down with juice. I've learned to be careful not to breathe in the powder! If I do, it sticks in my throat for hours, like an awful-tasting post-nasal drip. I mete out my dosage pretty loosely, just a regular household teaspoon, maybe level or maybe rounded, if not quite heaping. Since you're all good drug geeks, I actually measured for the sake of this article. It seems I take between 2 and 2.5 grams at a time, an amount Erowid calls a light dose.
My daily kratom usage generally lasts a couple of weeks, maybe three. I never increase the dosage. Over the course of a few weeks, a teaspoonful ceases to be sufficient (the effects are much lighter) and I stop using it. Then I kind of forget about it for another month or two--maybe more, maybe less; there's no rhythm to it--and then I remember, 'Mmmm! Kratom!'.
As for effect, kratom adds a pleasant but not super pushy layer of alternating euphoria, trippiness, and work motivation to my mood. kratom adds a pleasant but not super pushy layer of alternating euphoria, trippiness, and work motivation to my mood.