So, I wanted to follow up on a couple things here...
Resistance/reduced efficacy, how much are you taking, and how often are you switching?
Also, I wanted to reiterate my previous post, it is defiantly mellowing my overall mood.
I used to be easily irritated by stupid and/or little things, but that is not the case having been taking kratom now for almost a month.
I'd ordered a sampler from krabot.com and found that green & white maeng da along with the green malay worked best for me.
With the maeng da, I take one white and one green.
I'll stick with the capsules, powders can get messy, especially fine powders.
I agree with you about deaths treesprite. I'd looked into kratom quite a bit before taking and didn't seem to find any actual deaths related purely to kratom. I did however visit a friend and mentioned kratom and he told me a buddy had died from kratom. So I looked some more but couldn't find anything to corroborate this. The buddy in question I had known a few years back, and used to rather heavily partake in substance ingestion, so...