Here's my review. Took one shot Thurs night around 6pm on an empty stomach. The initial effect right at the beginning was very similar to that feeling you get after taking a high dose of Alcar for the first time. It was kind of a warm, fuzzy feeling in my head in a pleasurable sense. After about a half hour I had a few trippy kind of moments as well. I can't say what it was like really, but I guess it made me feel sort of out there and giddy.
I then had a few buddies over for a poker game. I know there was some talk about using this while playing poker as a focus enhancer. The game was very friendly so I can't say it helped me focus for an intense all night poker session, but my friends and I are all various sorts of engineers so the competition was very good. I did quite well and ended up on the night (cash game).
The warm, fuzzy feeling continued on and spread out over my body a bit. It also made me feel very laid back and sociable which I sometimes am not. I had just one beer during all of this. The other VERY noticeable effect was a completely destroyed appetite. I had a normal lunch and a protein bar around 3 that day and wasn't even interested at all in the pizza we ordered. Had one slice and wasn't really all that into it.
The effects slowly subsided over the course of probably 5 hours I would say which seems to be a bit longer than what you guys are reporting. I also had a little bit of trouble getting to sleep. I'm normally a stim junkie and therefore usually have no trouble taking stims and then passing out at night, but I have been trying to cut back and have greatly limited my stim intake over the past month or so (just taking a normal break to give my adrenals a rest).
Then last night I took another shot around 5:30pm and went out to a bar for some drinks. Same initial effects took place though maybe slightly less intense. I had two beers at the bar and can definitely say that after just those I felt a little buzzed. I'm not a big drinker but I'm 6'3 somewhere around 210 pounds so two beers normally wouldn't do a thing.
Once again I hadn't eaten since about 3pm (and just had a small protein bar) and my friends ordered a **** ton of food at the bar around 7. I was completely disinterested. I believe the kanna is supposed to have that effect. Could be an amazing diet aide by itself. Bar was pretty dead so a bunch of people came back to my place. I ended up drinking 4 more beers. So that was 6 beers over the course of like 5 hours or so. Normally that wouldn't do much except make me tired. Instead it felt more like I had drank 10 beers in a much shorter time frame. I ended up going to bed much later that night (if you know what I mean) so no trouble falling asleep.
So overall, I think this is an awesome product. The taste is ehh, not bad. Nasty sour apple really sums it up quite nicely. Totally tolerable though. I got it down in like 2-3 gulps and just chased it with water. The initial sour apple taste hits hard and tastes good, but there is an herby aftertaste. Chasing with water eliminated that well enough. The effects were subtle for the most part but very pleasurable. If I could make any changes I'd like to see maybe a version that is a little more intense on the trippy side and maybe an entirely different product that focused more on the appetite suppression effects. Although I have a feeling the kanna might be responsible for both of these. Good stuff!
Edit: Still have one left, not sure what I'm going to do with it. Prob just save it for next weekend. Also, if anyone has any specific questions about the effects please fire away.