You’ve been to the Reddit forums. You’ve pored over how to make the ‘green sludge’ taste reasonable. You’ve debated which strains and vendors work, and endlessly scrolled through forums to read vendor reviews. Is it a drop in quality or is it tolerance?

You’ve logged doses, moods, and cravings in spreadsheets and sticky notes.

You’ve even started stashing your kratom away in a timed lockbox acquired on Amazon, strategically removing only a desired amount for the day while depriving yourself of the rest of it, waiting for the next day for the box to magically open again. 

You purchased a milligram scale because comfortable tapering happens in the realm of milligrams, not grams, but you lost your dose measurements under a pile of snack wrappers. Sabotaged again.

So what do you do now, and what's your relationship with kratom?