Why does weed make me so paranoid now?
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Weed can cause transient hypoglycemia - hence the munchies - but also shaking, anxiety, panic. It's a liver thing. I cannot smoke it but can ingest it very nicely. A different effect, much more expansive and calming. I have fibromyalgia and taking it as a tincture helps with everything. But smoking it? Nuh-uh!
Well J, I can totally sympathize with you. I, being new to the site, was going to ask about the same thing. I still may still post another similar question more streamlined to my problem(s). I will say this, ScrewLight was very astute about the THC/CBD thing.
When I first started smoking I loved it, and did really well with it. One time though, I became VERY anxious and it was miserable, I wanted to walk into a closet with a bag over my head and wait to come down! I waited ten years, tried it again...same result. Paranoid, almost to a schizophrenic level. The simplest sentence was too hard to comprehend and it was just absolutely the worst.
I now have a medical cannabis card and I've done some research (and you should too), educate yourself about the THC--the psych component in the cannabis as opposed to the CBD--pain killing component of the drug. I wish I could smoke a high THC cannabis strain, but instead I go for the high CBD strain. If you can, I highly recommend you try a strain (if you can get a hold of it that is) called "ACDC." Total body high, no THC to freak you out with anxiety, you will get giggly and it will calm you down, but the best thing...it will not make you paranoid. That would be my best advice. Good luck and God bless.
When I first started smoking I loved it, and did really well with it. One time though, I became VERY anxious and it was miserable, I wanted to walk into a closet with a bag over my head and wait to come down! I waited ten years, tried it again...same result. Paranoid, almost to a schizophrenic level. The simplest sentence was too hard to comprehend and it was just absolutely the worst.
I now have a medical cannabis card and I've done some research (and you should too), educate yourself about the THC--the psych component in the cannabis as opposed to the CBD--pain killing component of the drug. I wish I could smoke a high THC cannabis strain, but instead I go for the high CBD strain. If you can, I highly recommend you try a strain (if you can get a hold of it that is) called "ACDC." Total body high, no THC to freak you out with anxiety, you will get giggly and it will calm you down, but the best thing...it will not make you paranoid. That would be my best advice. Good luck and God bless.
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Synthetics fucked up my receptors for a while. Anxiety everytime I smoked. Took about a year off and all was good again. I been getting it again lately because I simply been doing nothing but smoking all day. Now i just been smoking Indica and there's no anxiety. But you don't know wtf ur gettin if you're not in legal states.
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Yes!! Oh my god. I'm sorry I don't have an actual answer to help you out but I know 100 fucking percent what you're talking about.
The first couple of times were great I smoked sooo much and felt sooo good!
but I never smoked daily. A year probably passed and I smoked again and that's when I got all twitchy. Even taking a couple hits. Mega paranoia and anxiety. hate turning down my friends and bf wish I could just smoke a shit ton and just feel good like everybody else.
Good luck to ya friend
The first couple of times were great I smoked sooo much and felt sooo good!
but I never smoked daily. A year probably passed and I smoked again and that's when I got all twitchy. Even taking a couple hits. Mega paranoia and anxiety. hate turning down my friends and bf wish I could just smoke a shit ton and just feel good like everybody else.
Good luck to ya friend
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Yes!! Oh my god. I'm sorry I don't have an actual answer to help you out but I know 100 fucking percent what you're talking about.
The first couple of times were great I smoked sooo much and felt sooo good!
but I never smoked daily. A year probably passed and I smoked again and that's when I got all twitchy. Even taking a couple hits. Mega paranoia and anxiety. hate turning down my friends and bf wish I could just smoke a shit ton and just feel good like everybody else.
Good luck to ya friend
Xanax may help a lot in reducing or completely eliminating paranoia. I know what you guys are talking about but smoked some ok herb one time after taking xanax and it completely eliminated any anxiety induced by weed.
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I honestly believe I have found my own cure for needless paranoia and depression while ingesting thc in normal, casual doses. When I get too crazy socially or at home from consuming pot I just load up my vape pen with really close to 100% thc wax. The pen forces me to take long slow tokes of a delightfully light stream of close to pure thc. After about three or so drags I immediately get the stoney feel that I love and the ADHD relief I require to be productive. Then I wait for the paranoia, but it doesn't come! I can even go vape outside the bar I work at (instead of a cancerous cigarette), go back inside, and easily chat up guests I know and customers who are strangers to me. If I try smoking a joint with customers or a bong before I show up to work, I am extremely awkward and wish I were somewhere else the entire time. However if I puff on my vape pen while already stonedly awkward and paranoid, I immediately lose the social angst and depression that limited me five seconds earlier.
I cannot explain why this happens to me. I can only tell you all that my girlfriend and I both have our own pens on us at all times because we lead highly productive social lives at a brewery and a bar respectively. Marijuana calms our brains down enough to last throughout an entire day without exhausting us with needless guilt and worry.
You can build your own vape pen for cheap online. You can buy the battery and the wax cartridge separately for like $40. The charger is probably another $15.
Every strain of wax we have consumed has calmed us down and adding it to our routine has significantly enhanced our lives. I love knowing I can medicate lawfully now instead of having to take pharmaceuticals to slow down my extremely active mind.
P.S. - I don't work for any sort of vape company haha
I cannot explain why this happens to me. I can only tell you all that my girlfriend and I both have our own pens on us at all times because we lead highly productive social lives at a brewery and a bar respectively. Marijuana calms our brains down enough to last throughout an entire day without exhausting us with needless guilt and worry.
You can build your own vape pen for cheap online. You can buy the battery and the wax cartridge separately for like $40. The charger is probably another $15.
Every strain of wax we have consumed has calmed us down and adding it to our routine has significantly enhanced our lives. I love knowing I can medicate lawfully now instead of having to take pharmaceuticals to slow down my extremely active mind.
P.S. - I don't work for any sort of vape company haha
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From my experience the weed is grown more and more with chemicals to try get bigger yield I too smoked cannabis 25 year and about 5 year ago started getting the problem too cut a long story short I think it's these chemicals wich cus the unwanted effect since I now smoke organic weed i now no longer get the unwanted effect s and when I've run out of the organic at times and had to buy chemical grow weed I started to get all the anxiety and bad feeling back
Was every day for three years, smoking what I got in the South, and in the end I became paranoid, almost psychotic -- childhood abuse in my subconcious, apparently, triggered. Years later I found that the memories were, indeed, real.
But then 10 years later, in Jamaica, a kid brings an OZ. down from the mountains, and I am happy, very rare for me. Back in the U.S., anxiety as I smoked (like "I gotta' get of this place") and bad, can't get off the couch, depression the next day when I smoked.
But then 10 years later, in Jamaica, a kid brings an OZ. down from the mountains, and I am happy, very rare for me. Back in the U.S., anxiety as I smoked (like "I gotta' get of this place") and bad, can't get off the couch, depression the next day when I smoked.
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There can be long term effects after you abuse a drug. Often included is a likely permanent negative transformation of the way you react to the drug. Why would pot be any different?
From my personal experience I have known social anxiety, depression, fiending (strong psychological addiction), withdrawals (appetite suppression, irritability, and insomnia), and physical panic to be the most common long term effects. However I was bonging over an ounce a week, plus hash, plus oil dabs, so even compared to most daily smokers that's simply not comparable. Long term effects or the all-too-common 'uncomfortable highs' are just possibilities to be aware of, nothing definite. Thinking ahead to potential outcomes and adjusting your behaviour accordingly to avoid risk is a wise course of action. The higher the frequency that you smoke, or use any drug, the greater the chance of encountering noticeable long term effects. Also note the 'long term' part of long term effects - I smoked weed habitually for years before it started messing with my body and mind. The safest way to ensure that you'll be able to enjoy weed into your elder years is to use it at a frequency that upon reflection you feel is not overuse or abuse. I'd personally say once a week max but your mileage may vary of course. It could be a puff at the end of each day, but in my opinion that is even pushing it, because unless it's for medical purposes daily drug use is generally discouraged from the point of view of harm reduction.
I abused weed, smoking weed was like all I lived for over a period of years. Blatant abuse; smoking bong rip after bong rip, or usually volcano or dabbing - not just smoking enough to stay high, but compulsively abusing weed because I had turned into a fiend since I was chasing constant, strong euphoria from it. This eventually transformed me into a total burnout. I haven't smoked it in two years, and I'll never be able to smoke it again, because the side effects became extreme and I could never use something again which has resulted in so much harm to myself. It was a complex, multi-faceted and valuable life lesson, and luckily it was with 'just weed' or I might not be here writing this, but with drug abuse also comes regret. The regret does not come from how I can't smoke weed anymore and I used to enjoy it a lot. It's a much deeper form of regret than that. It taught me, among many other things, how to respect drugs. I purely use psychedelics now, once every couple weeks, Mdma twice a year, and I have used pain medications for my severe chronic back pain for years without getting addicted (from my vantage-point on the topic of addiction) or taking more than prescribed or than I feel comfortable using, which I attribute to the lessons I learned from abusing weed. Otherwise I'd probably have ended up chasing some opiate high, taking more than I require to manage my crippling back pain, which I simply have no interest in. But getting addicted to weed shed a lot of light on the phenomenon of addiction as a whole (not just to drugs, but habitual tendencies in general, such as how some people are 'addicted' to watching porn frequently.)
I think the ideal way of using cannabis is to space your highs out and not make it a regular thing, unless you have a medical reason to use it (which most people who smoke weed do not). Although that's just my opinion, because in the early days smoking weed was a truly magical experience easily on par with one of my favourite psychedelics like high dose LSD or mushrooms. Obviously not as intense, but I used to get really freaking blazed and it was incredibly fun. Then with overuse it turned into complete garbage, all positive effects were lost, but nevertheless it took me so long to break my deep seeded attachment to it, and to come to terms with the fact that weed wasn't what it used to be and that it didn't have a place in my life anymore. In order to accomplish this, and break my attachment to the herb, my ego had to take the back seat since I had to acknowledge that I had made a lot of mistakes (among other things, like how I simply couldn't tolerate weed anymore and I used to smoke like a chimney). Another issue was that I had allowed cannabis to become a part of my personality, the image that I projected onto other beings. The withdrawals were truly miserable as well with a complex array of symptoms with the post-acute phase lasting at least 6 months, both 'physical' and 'mental' (in my ideology, I don't differentiate between the two), with the more 'physical' side effects like appetite suppression lasting a solid month. Essentially I required weed in my system during that in order to be able to normally consume food (I puked more times in that month than I have throughout the rest of my life).
From my personal experience I have known social anxiety, depression, fiending (strong psychological addiction), withdrawals (appetite suppression, irritability, and insomnia), and physical panic to be the most common long term effects. However I was bonging over an ounce a week, plus hash, plus oil dabs, so even compared to most daily smokers that's simply not comparable. Long term effects or the all-too-common 'uncomfortable highs' are just possibilities to be aware of, nothing definite. Thinking ahead to potential outcomes and adjusting your behaviour accordingly to avoid risk is a wise course of action. The higher the frequency that you smoke, or use any drug, the greater the chance of encountering noticeable long term effects. Also note the 'long term' part of long term effects - I smoked weed habitually for years before it started messing with my body and mind. The safest way to ensure that you'll be able to enjoy weed into your elder years is to use it at a frequency that upon reflection you feel is not overuse or abuse. I'd personally say once a week max but your mileage may vary of course. It could be a puff at the end of each day, but in my opinion that is even pushing it, because unless it's for medical purposes daily drug use is generally discouraged from the point of view of harm reduction.
I abused weed, smoking weed was like all I lived for over a period of years. Blatant abuse; smoking bong rip after bong rip, or usually volcano or dabbing - not just smoking enough to stay high, but compulsively abusing weed because I had turned into a fiend since I was chasing constant, strong euphoria from it. This eventually transformed me into a total burnout. I haven't smoked it in two years, and I'll never be able to smoke it again, because the side effects became extreme and I could never use something again which has resulted in so much harm to myself. It was a complex, multi-faceted and valuable life lesson, and luckily it was with 'just weed' or I might not be here writing this, but with drug abuse also comes regret. The regret does not come from how I can't smoke weed anymore and I used to enjoy it a lot. It's a much deeper form of regret than that. It taught me, among many other things, how to respect drugs. I purely use psychedelics now, once every couple weeks, Mdma twice a year, and I have used pain medications for my severe chronic back pain for years without getting addicted (from my vantage-point on the topic of addiction) or taking more than prescribed or than I feel comfortable using, which I attribute to the lessons I learned from abusing weed. Otherwise I'd probably have ended up chasing some opiate high, taking more than I require to manage my crippling back pain, which I simply have no interest in. But getting addicted to weed shed a lot of light on the phenomenon of addiction as a whole (not just to drugs, but habitual tendencies in general, such as how some people are 'addicted' to watching porn frequently.)
I think the ideal way of using cannabis is to space your highs out and not make it a regular thing, unless you have a medical reason to use it (which most people who smoke weed do not). Although that's just my opinion, because in the early days smoking weed was a truly magical experience easily on par with one of my favourite psychedelics like high dose LSD or mushrooms. Obviously not as intense, but I used to get really freaking blazed and it was incredibly fun. Then with overuse it turned into complete garbage, all positive effects were lost, but nevertheless it took me so long to break my deep seeded attachment to it, and to come to terms with the fact that weed wasn't what it used to be and that it didn't have a place in my life anymore. In order to accomplish this, and break my attachment to the herb, my ego had to take the back seat since I had to acknowledge that I had made a lot of mistakes (among other things, like how I simply couldn't tolerate weed anymore and I used to smoke like a chimney). Another issue was that I had allowed cannabis to become a part of my personality, the image that I projected onto other beings. The withdrawals were truly miserable as well with a complex array of symptoms with the post-acute phase lasting at least 6 months, both 'physical' and 'mental' (in my ideology, I don't differentiate between the two), with the more 'physical' side effects like appetite suppression lasting a solid month. Essentially I required weed in my system during that in order to be able to normally consume food (I puked more times in that month than I have throughout the rest of my life).
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cannabis paranoid is so common with me now, god i miss the old days.
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there's a weed blog that wrote about green calm. i already shared my experience with it earlier in this thread, and i thought you guys might find this interesting.
http://www.smokingwithstyle.com/pill-paranoia/
http://www.smokingwithstyle.com/pill-paranoia/
I have the same problem. I started smoking at 14 and ofc my first time being stoned wasn't fun cuz I hadn't experienced anything like that. But soon I grew to love it and smoked very often. I always had some on me. I've always had anxiety issues and it used to calm me down. But one day (not sure time line wise as it has been aa couple years at least) it started to give me bad anxiety attacks. It's like I could feel my organs twitching and it would make my heart race and I get shaky and feel like I'm dying. I've tried several strains and stuff from clinics designed to mellow people out but they all do the same thing to me even after just one hit. My boyfriend is a huge blunt smoker and he's always smokingsmoking them which doesn't bother me in the slightest. However he does want me to smoke with him and I honestly cant. I either start having an anxiety attack or feel extremely weird. It NEVER mellows me out. It's really sad because I wish I could get the happy high like other people do. But unfortunately I don't think I'll ever be able to enjoy smoking again. I've tried edibles and vaping, smoking and even the weird strip things. all do the same thing and cause me to have anxiety. I'm very good at hiding it because I suffer from anxiety attacks a lot so most people dont even notice but inside I'm slowly having a heart attack.
I actually agree with this assessment. Weed imo makes you very self conscious, and if your conscious is not content to begin with, when your high the negativity of that is amplified, causing the anxiety. When I smoke weed chronically for long periods of time, I get lazy, ignore my responsibilities, stop taking care of myself, stop cleaning up around my house, begin to isolate and not go out and have fun anymore, etc. I am no longer happy with myself. So when I smoke around other people the amplified self-consciousness sets in and I become anxious because I am not content with myself. That's why I think when it comes to smoking weed moderation is key. Take a break from it from time to time. Make sure you're taking care of your responsibilities and doing all the things that you should be doing in life. I think this will help your self esteem, and then when you do smoke on occasion you will enjoy it again. That's what works for me anyway.
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Basically,what that guy said
I have the same problem with weed.I get really,REALLY uncofortable,both physically and mentally and paranoid as hell.I have wondered why that happens whereas in the past i used to enjoy it very much.
I have thought of two things
1.It has to do with physical health.I am a guy that is really good at health.I don't exercise,my body is weak and I have a really bad diet.Whenever I am at good health like eating well,sleeping well and EXERCISING I usually don't get all the bad reactions from weed.Hell one period that I was exercising hard I could really smoke the hell out of it and it would just calm me down.
2.It is psychological and what that guy above me said.You might have too many unsolved psychological issues and weed just brings it out and makes you more concious of it.Many people start smoking weed and in the beginning all is well.It calms you and shows you your problems.But as time passes you start to rely on weed because you think it will SOLVE your problems.No it won't.It just shows them to you and in the beginning that can be calming and reassuring.It is nice to know what is at fault.But that isn't enough.You have to solve it.If you calm yourself when you know what it is and you forget it and push it back.That's how after some years you have so many psychological issues that you can't ignore.And you may still complain about not enjoying weed anymore and wanting back the good high because deep down you don't want to solve your problems,you just want to find a way around them.So the answer is simple.Stop weed and solve your problems.After the problems are solved,you will probably be able to enjoy weed.
Personally I have stopped smoking weed because I know I have to prioritize other stuff.And I don't miss it that much.I smoke once in a while but I dont really enjoy it so I don't find a reason to keep smoking.I know what thing's in life can make me happy and I have to focus on them.After my mental and emotional(and possibly psysical) well being are on track I might smoke occasionally again IF i need it for medicinal purposes or entheogenic-psychedelic(like if i am in a time of life where i have lost my contact with my subconcious,not being self concious at all and need to regain these).Weed is a medicine and a ritual thing and should be treated as such.It's not your saviour and it's not your friend.It's a tool.It can either help you build something or smash your head.Use it wisely and don't let you world revolve around it
P.S I am not saying it's bad to smoke for recreational purposes if you enjoy it but thinking that weed is the thing that makes you happy is a misunderstanding.It just makes you realize how happy you are
I have the same problem with weed.I get really,REALLY uncofortable,both physically and mentally and paranoid as hell.I have wondered why that happens whereas in the past i used to enjoy it very much.
I have thought of two things
1.It has to do with physical health.I am a guy that is really good at health.I don't exercise,my body is weak and I have a really bad diet.Whenever I am at good health like eating well,sleeping well and EXERCISING I usually don't get all the bad reactions from weed.Hell one period that I was exercising hard I could really smoke the hell out of it and it would just calm me down.
2.It is psychological and what that guy above me said.You might have too many unsolved psychological issues and weed just brings it out and makes you more concious of it.Many people start smoking weed and in the beginning all is well.It calms you and shows you your problems.But as time passes you start to rely on weed because you think it will SOLVE your problems.No it won't.It just shows them to you and in the beginning that can be calming and reassuring.It is nice to know what is at fault.But that isn't enough.You have to solve it.If you calm yourself when you know what it is and you forget it and push it back.That's how after some years you have so many psychological issues that you can't ignore.And you may still complain about not enjoying weed anymore and wanting back the good high because deep down you don't want to solve your problems,you just want to find a way around them.So the answer is simple.Stop weed and solve your problems.After the problems are solved,you will probably be able to enjoy weed.
Personally I have stopped smoking weed because I know I have to prioritize other stuff.And I don't miss it that much.I smoke once in a while but I dont really enjoy it so I don't find a reason to keep smoking.I know what thing's in life can make me happy and I have to focus on them.After my mental and emotional(and possibly psysical) well being are on track I might smoke occasionally again IF i need it for medicinal purposes or entheogenic-psychedelic(like if i am in a time of life where i have lost my contact with my subconcious,not being self concious at all and need to regain these).Weed is a medicine and a ritual thing and should be treated as such.It's not your saviour and it's not your friend.It's a tool.It can either help you build something or smash your head.Use it wisely and don't let you world revolve around it
P.S I am not saying it's bad to smoke for recreational purposes if you enjoy it but thinking that weed is the thing that makes you happy is a misunderstanding.It just makes you realize how happy you are
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