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TimKT9

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Does anyone have any experience mixing weed and benzos like Xanax? I used to smoke weed everyday when i was 16, for about 3-4 years. I haven't smoked in about a year due to SEVERE anxiety, especially social anxiety i would get from smoking. Like i couldn't even hold a conversation with anyone or anything. So does anyone have any experience with taking benzos while smoking weed?
 
Yep, I do it all the time.

Great combo IMO it takes away all the negatives that weed produces and makes for a nice relaxing high. If your not tolerant to benzos you'll probably pass out pretty quickly. If you end up doing it be careful and don't make a habit out of it. :)

Edit: Start low ( like .5mg ) no need to take high doses because the synergy between the two is quite strong.
 
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what's the point in smoking cannabis if it gives you anxiety? A benzo will calm you down but also dulls the high quite a bit. I just ended up quitting cannabis altogether again because on benzos, it just has no effect on me except if i smoke way too much then i just get more anxiety and have to take more benzos.

not a great habit to get into either as a benzo dependency is terrible to deal with. I don't find there's a synergy, maybe with a nice indica but that would be it but i guess different people, different effects.

Cannabis also inhibits gaba (opposite of what benzos do), increases dopamine which gets broken down into norepinepherine (benzos do the opposite) and i'm pretty sure cannabis releases glutamate which again is something that benzos counter. So you're kind of combining 2 drugs that are trying to do the opposite things in the brain, sort of anyway.
 
If you read my post, i said i haven't smoked in a year BECAUSE of my anxiety. That is why I quit. I was just asking if i did smoke now, would benzos help ease the anxiety i used to get.
 
I can't fathom why you would want to smoke weed when you quit because of the anxiety it exacerbated?

Benzos will assist with the anxiety but the potential cost is physical addiction.
 
Because there are some aspects to smoking that i enjoy, (listening to music, video games), but just dont want the anxiety
 
can't really have one without the other if you have anxiety issues is the problem. not that i didn't read your post. I have the same issue, quit for months due to anxiety, tried forcing myself to get back into smoking again for a few months, wasn't the same too much anxiety, and quit again. I was desperate to get the old high back but it's gone, unless i smoke really shitty weed, then it's just mellow but not near as fun as high potent weed used to be.

i can still use psychedelics though without a problem, and they certainly enhance music and video games
 
Wonderful combination. Use caution, though. Some of us like it too much and end up addicted full-time to a substance they initially used only to treat self-inflicted anxiety.
 
The only few times I've combined it (in normal doses), I just lose my memories of that night. I remember flashes, bits and pieces, but 95% gone.
That might be something else at play though. What neurotransmitter helps store memories? Acetylcholine? Maybe I'm deficient on that...

So yes, weed+benzos. Do it.
 
I like it but as has been said you should thread carefully. I found myself taking alot more benzos to counteract the anxiety from smoking so much while on the benzos.
 
Jane and Benzo's are a great combo!
I don't get bad anxiety from smoking so that's a plus.
I use Benzo's to really just get the high.
Smoke a joint or something then pop some Valium, K-Pins, whatever your sauce is.
Then continue smoking.
Very pleasurable.
 
i take suboxone klonopin 3 mg a day and some weed every day !!! great combo
 
I stopped smoking weed when I started using benzos, I thought it took most of the fun out of it. But if you are one of those who get anxiety from smoking weed, it's probably just going to make it better. To me, it just dulls the effects.

Acquiring a benzo addiction just so you can smoke weed without paranoia is never going to be worth it though.
 
But if you are one of those who get anxiety from smoking weed, it's probably just going to make it better.

Temporarily. It'll get better temporarily, but likely build up and/or snowball into much more serious, more complex issues.


Acquiring a benzo addiction just so you can smoke weed without paranoia is never going to be worth it though.

Word. I don't think that can be said enough on this topic.
 
The more Benzo's you take, the bigger your anxiety will get in my experience.

Benzo and weed is a great combo yes, but its not a combo to repeat, its just going to lead you into benzo addiction.
Weed itself is much less harmful than the likes of Diazepam or other benzos, i think that those drugs really do wipe your memory, and make you more prone to anxiety and stuff as you come off them.

If you need benzos to smoke weed you shouldnt be smoking weed at all, or you are just getting very heady strains perhaps that dont agree with you.

I really recommend Against this combo in the interests of harm reduction.
 
The more Benzo's you take, the bigger your anxiety will get in my experience.

Benzo and weed is a great combo yes, but its not a combo to repeat, its just going to lead you into benzo addiction.
Weed itself is much less harmful than the likes of Diazepam or other benzos, i think that those drugs really do wipe your memory, and make you more prone to anxiety and stuff as you come off them.

If you need benzos to smoke weed you shouldnt be smoking weed at all, or you are just getting very heady strains perhaps that dont agree with you.

I really recommend Against this combo in the interests of harm reduction.

I definitely agree with that. I hear opiate withdrawal is childs play compared to benzo withdrawal. I was not planning this long term at all. Just for the very few times i smoke weed, im gonna try and have a few benzos on hand
 
For the non-blabbing shortened summary of the below, please scroll down two posts for my non-blabing straight to the question post. I don't remember typing the blabbing post at all. I apologize for putting that strange post out there fellow BLs.


I am bringing back this thread because I have to me, very important questions about mixing Benzos and Weed(Indica specifically). I'm not a weed smoker, don't seek it out until it 's last resort in hopes to assist with my heath, severe depression, most probably, bipolar, musle and join pain due to working as a cook under insane commercial kitcher pressure. I usually always get super duper paranoid when I smoke the weed of today Canada that is super high in THC in higher compared to the more natural past generations of the plant; genetically modified grown weed; the whole more bang-for-your-buck model. My nervous system cannot handle any of the high anxiety so I tried Indica for the second time I guess. First time without Clonaz mixed in. Felt same ; same mulitple lucid dreams that seemed to answer all questions regarding all aspects of my Trauma and almost like a healing plant that I can only compare to Shrooms. I often get Hallucinogenic effects from using weed. Why??? is one question that I have. Is it just me? Or are there others out there especially BL members who can relate even in the remotest. Please? ha.

Had panic attack two morning ago. Not tonight. The second Indica smoke session 10pm at night before bedtime felt just like my FIRST Indica High experienc but it was BETTER than my first Indica high. But this second time, I had a high dosage of Clonazapam in me 2mg x 10 pills thoughout the day 2mg x 5 times throughout the day and night. I was FIENDING/JONESING off Oxy so I replace the snorting Oxy with snorting a lot of Clonaz 2mg IR, and I'm someone who has a one week tolerance to 2 mg Clonazapam; happend 2 whole weeks ago and so I was on a break from Benzos. I didn't experience anxiety until two mornings ago while under extreme pressure and stress, and overexerion from work I felt (twisted my neck and shoulder and back). Doc wouldn't dole it out(benzos) to hold me over for the weekend and so I had to go cop on the street. In my area of home, they implemented (the board of medical professionals did) to have all people cut off from opiates and benzos anywhere from T3s, Percocet and up; also not allowed to prescribe Benzos(only psychiatrists mostly are the ones prescribing much anymore; docs don't want the possible liability of addiction from Benzos. Only ones able to get opiod medication are actually Cancer patients and nobody else. Seniors and regular car-accident folks getting cut off from their doctor ALL OF A SUDDEN because their family doctor retired and the new replacement doctor needs to listen to the Medical mandate cutting old lady off; happens all the time. Have a tattoo? no script for you!

Here I am typing not remembering anything(which is almost a medical breakthrough or just the natural properties of weed.) I got that same great sleep I got from the first time I smoked Indica. Great restful uninterrupted sleep unlike sleep I had for 2 weeks pure waking up several times and exhausted and anxious the next day on edge; hences me getting into benzos while saying "I'll be careful" while taking a like 8x2mg clonaz. thoughout the day from sources off my regular connect. I am abusing them no doubt! Loss of memory of events. Re-remembering all the incredible places I've walked on the street that evening all very lucid dreams. My first admission that I am addicted to Opiates 10mg-30mg (oxycontin V10 IR crush and SNORT is my fetish) expensive-ass habit ruining my financial life and me just watching my hard earned $$$ getting flushed down the toilet as I believe I am a FUNCTIONING ADDICT not because I lie to myself about choosing to engage in this repetitive HABIT defining a big aspect of my life in so many ways it's crippling and has control over me, but because I work a job every day pretty much while Chipping Large to the danger point I realized tonight with the Benzos and Alcohol with the buddies after a work meeting. .

For a week(1 month ago) , I detoxed in my own bed curled up in a ball and sweating 6 days straight going Cold-Turkey . Saw youtube guy that had a worse habit->so me multiplied by 5 for his five years through college into his Sales Career selling new cars or something at dealership; he would use it to get in the right confident sociable mindset just like I initially would when I got started into the Opiate thing. T3s first, then some hard drugs, then Percs, then I tried Oxycontin Brand of Oxycodone and bam wow this is it. Dabbed snort Dillaudid made me sick most the time; never went back to that.
The Youtube guy Closing/making deals Sale after Sale while masking the fact that it's because he's high off Oxy, and blue-pressed fake oxy laced with fenyt which he knew and liked and continued to take throughout the day. This guy taught me that I should never go through Opiate withdrawal without BENZOS and all the other Immodium plus the rest of the Kit. I went cold turkey 6 days and nights I believe I mentioned already.

Babbling on about non-hallucinogenic experience I am get while mixing weed indica with of lots Clonazapam combo; I was lost typing things while I was still high. Long post because I just wanted to provide background info to the depth of my addiction to OXY.

Got drawn back to Oxy last night trying to meet up my connects; two of them for a lousy small order of 10 pills at 10pm ; not worth the guy to losing any sleep trying to meet me.

Why does Weed affect/hit me like Shrooms with seeing other perspectives on how the world operates and ego death along with the healing of muscle and joint pain and quality deep sleep occurring coupled with the solving of a lot of mental, emotional, along with solutions to the specific personal problems I had in my life by giving me EXACT lucid dreams about how to go about SOLVING each of those individual problems step by step.

Sorry about this long-ass post. It's ok if I've pissing some readers off at the moment due to length of post but I jut wanted to say once again this site and community is incredibly GREAT!!!!! If I search online, I get fake over-the-top warning messages through 10 different Rebab facilities trying to get you in as a PAYING BIG BUCK Client and keep you there as long as possible along with Psychology-magazine-article-writers that don't have the slightest clue or experience of trying benzos along with weed together -and just writing the verbal experience of someone who is reciting something that they barely even remember let alone can begin to explain all of the symptoms that have disappeared.

I don;t know what I am talking about anymore. Thanks for your patience and I would like an answer to the question about in the bold Why"?
May I ask for a reply to my post or a PM. Im really curious abut why I experience the Hallucinagen healing mind expantion experience while mixing Clonz and Indica Weed. Thanks again.



Thanks all
 
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Here is what I have noticed, AND EXPERIENCED. With 90-95% of the people who have panic attacks and suffer paranoia, anxiety and the such. Not regular weed smokers. When I was on probation and hadn't smoked in 3 months I got the same symptoms, anxiety, paranoia. After about a week of chronic use (multiple times daily) weed becomes super relaxing, eases my temper, and helps very much with benzos. I.E. When I was in Colorado I forgot to take my klonopin because I wasn't stressed about anything to the point of tremors.
 
Thank you smokeymcpot42088 for your input. I don't remember typing my post at all! What's with my babbling on and on without structure and purpose in my writing??? I was spilling my mind onto paper with only a few actual questions. Weird. I was in one of those benzo and other substances combined dream-states.

Short version of the above:
Benzos + Indica for me = Hallucinagenic trip reveiling for a short time all the ills and illogical things in my life and in the World in general when I think about them. The thoughts sometimes provide solutions to my personal problems; creating viable solutions for me to go about solving problems. Strange that I would experience such a type of trip from this combo. While removing anxiety upon awakening. All calm and relaxed when interacting with people like Retail store cashiers etc.
 
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