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[Zac Imiola (Herbalist)]

Yeah see this makes perfect sense.
Hanakapi ai is another kava that is heavy at low doses for me but quickly turns to a strong anxiousness if I go to much .

I think I personally enjoy a good lawena balance. for sure then .
Hiwa is what I had today and I'm feeling kind of tweaky from 2 tablespoons but also really good! lol

*all people reading this.
unless your like me and cannot even handle green tea anymore from the stimulation... take my perspective on these strains with a huge grain of this kid has some adrenal issues and it's me not the kava lol

 

[ThePiper]

I couldn't imagine hiwa being anxious. Heavy and maybe a bit nauseating, maybe, but not anxiety invoking. You know Yangonin affects one of the cannabinoid receptors, so perhaps that has something to do with your anxiety. The only kava I've really got anxiety from were the extremely heady ones like pouni ono from many months ago. I did get anxiety from papakea once but that was basically my first really heavy kava and I don't know if that would happen nowadays. I don't think kava could ever go the way of cannabis because the native use is so much more prevalent than the western use. It is a situation where the farmers already know there trade and how to grow the best kava. Also there is no single kavalactone that has been identified as THE active lactone responsible for the effect, instead scientists have long recognized that it is the combination of kavalactone that holds the key to kavas magic. You ought to try pure lawena. It seems that you can only buy the Fijian cultivar lawenas so that really narrows down the experience one can get from lawena. I'm not huge on most Fijian kava so generally lawena just feels like a slightly less potent and more balanced Fijian. It tends to be smooth. But it's still Fijian kava. I have had wakas that are just as smooth and more potent though

 

[Zac Imiola (Herbalist)]

If cannabis gave me anxiety in a real way I would assume that's why.
But cannabis doesn't seem to do anything negative to me recently and yet kava is terribly anxiety causing