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Bluelighter
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Before you give your knee-jerk "no, of course not!" let me explain my situation.
I like weed, it's fun, but sometimes when I start to lean just a little heavy on the use (say a gram or two a week, I know it SOUNDS low, but generally during normal times it takes a month to go through that) I get moderate anxiety and insanely intense boredom/depression several hours after I come down, sometimes it just lasts a few hours sometimes it lasts a day or two. Sometimes if I spend an entire week high almost all day each day, I start to feel vaguely psychotic in a hard-to-describe way, it's nothing that's going to make me jump off a bridge or go stab a bunch of people on a bus or anything crazy but I start getting crazy thoughts and my senses all seem significantly dulled even after I've come down.
Now enter CBD. Thankfully Oregon has East Fork Cultivars (not a shill lol) which is a company that loves focusing on high CBD nearly no THC weed, although they make some of everything now and then. So I can and do get weed that analyzes at 1% THC or less, with 14-16% CBD.
CBD is great for me, my anxiety, depression, and worries all go away. It's almost like a benzo but no real high. It makes me wonder if, during my current 2 week break from weed (THC's psychotic/depressant day after effects on myself not just the general category of weed), it would be a bad or generally non-positive thing to use CBD potentially quite heavily. I feel like it's exchanging one vice/very minor dependence for another. I feel like I shouldn't be relying on any substance to make me feel normal/OK. The thing is though CBD is fairly well predicted to be even less harmful than THC, as far as mental effects go... probably no mental dependency, no exacerbation of schizophrenia/depression/etc.
Not sure. What do you think? Should I allow myself to think of CBD as a fallback for any time I feel bad?
Side note: this probably insane overthinking of a simple question is what my THC comedowns are like and you can see why I'm taking a short break...
I like weed, it's fun, but sometimes when I start to lean just a little heavy on the use (say a gram or two a week, I know it SOUNDS low, but generally during normal times it takes a month to go through that) I get moderate anxiety and insanely intense boredom/depression several hours after I come down, sometimes it just lasts a few hours sometimes it lasts a day or two. Sometimes if I spend an entire week high almost all day each day, I start to feel vaguely psychotic in a hard-to-describe way, it's nothing that's going to make me jump off a bridge or go stab a bunch of people on a bus or anything crazy but I start getting crazy thoughts and my senses all seem significantly dulled even after I've come down.
Now enter CBD. Thankfully Oregon has East Fork Cultivars (not a shill lol) which is a company that loves focusing on high CBD nearly no THC weed, although they make some of everything now and then. So I can and do get weed that analyzes at 1% THC or less, with 14-16% CBD.
CBD is great for me, my anxiety, depression, and worries all go away. It's almost like a benzo but no real high. It makes me wonder if, during my current 2 week break from weed (THC's psychotic/depressant day after effects on myself not just the general category of weed), it would be a bad or generally non-positive thing to use CBD potentially quite heavily. I feel like it's exchanging one vice/very minor dependence for another. I feel like I shouldn't be relying on any substance to make me feel normal/OK. The thing is though CBD is fairly well predicted to be even less harmful than THC, as far as mental effects go... probably no mental dependency, no exacerbation of schizophrenia/depression/etc.
Not sure. What do you think? Should I allow myself to think of CBD as a fallback for any time I feel bad?
Side note: this probably insane overthinking of a simple question is what my THC comedowns are like and you can see why I'm taking a short break...