I used pod tea all summer last year, then simply stopped. After a couple months break I began using kratom. Both are very similar yet different many ways. You can't chase a pod tea high with kratom because you'll end up getting too many of the negative kratom side effects. Pod tea provides a dreamy, euphoric, sedating, clean high. Kratom on the other hand is stimulating, euphoric but not
as euphoric, and has a side helping of empathy (not unlike MDMA!) that no other opiate seems to give. I think a 50/50 pod/kratom mixture would be the tits.
Pod tea would keep me literally high for about a day and a half, and while kratom doesn't last quite as long as pod tea, it still outlasts and other opioid I've had by leaps and bounds. Kratom keeps me high for about half a day, however the afterglow lasts well into the next day. I'm extremely strict with my dosing though, as to avoid dependency. I never, EVER take kratom 2 days in a row, and I also NEVER re-dose. However, one thing kratom has over pod tea, it takes about 15 minutes for me to start feeling it, and be high as a kite within the hour. Pod tea would take at least two hours before it became enjoyable.
I don't know how intense your addiction is, and to be honest it almost seems like you may be scaring yourself a bit too much. I'm willing to bet you could just stop the pods and begin using ~10-15g kratom, with no withdrawal. I started out with about 15g of ground up pods last summer, and worked my way up to over 40g to get the same buzz, which is when I decided it was time to stop. When I started kratom a few months later, I started out with 15g of kratom, however because I was trying to reach a pod tea kind of high, I kept taking more and more, which in turn just made me sicker, more nauseous, more bad side effects, and guess what, no added euphoria....just sedation. So, one day, I read that low doses can be more stimulating, and looking for a good energy boost that day I decided to simply try 7g. Not only did I receive WAY more cleaner-than-caffeine energy than I expected, but also still felt a wonderful anxiety relief and very mild euphoria. I tried boosting the dose up to a simple 10g, and I feel I have found my sweet spot. Clean, long lasting stimulation and focus (blows adderall away IMO), decent euphoria, empathy. anxiety relief, analgesia, etc.. Smoke some weed when you are peaking on the kratom and turn that decent euphoria into a somewhat INTENSE euphoria.
Lastly, as stated in posts above, stick with regular commercial powdered leaf. Anything else will just be more $$ for less


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