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Lsd anxiety vs. cannabis anxiety

Interesting to see that most people choose cannabis over LSD as the most anxiety-generating psychedelic.

I smoke cannabis roughly once per month, usually a high dose of strong sativa, in a relaxed setting (at home, alone). I never experienced anxiety when doing so.

On the other hand, even though I have never tried LSD, if I picture myself swallowing my first blotter I feel like LSD won't give me the smallest margin of error. If my set & setting is not 100% okay, I feel like I'll get mindfucked.
Well, that's probably wrong, hopefully I can change my mind soon.


A couple of advices for people having bad experiences with cannabis :
- work on the set & setting
- reduce the frequency of your experiences
- try using without tobacco if smoked
- try different strains to find the ones that work the best for you


From my personal experience, the anxiety that comes during mushrooms trips is the worst. :)
 
PepperSocks said:
EXACTLY.

LSD anxiety is based on something subconscious becoming conscious and requiring you to deal with it.

Cannabis anxiety is not something that can be worked through or dealt with. It's just a delusion that taunts and screws with you until the drug wears off; even then it can still hang around if it was a particularly nasty episode.
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Completely agree with this.
 
i have severe panic attacks probably 3-4 times a week and other than that just generalized anxiety and shit. however i can smoke godlike amounts of privately grown top notch danks and feel nothing but relaxed. my anxiety is gone. however on acid and shrooms i have trouble keeping my mind in happy places

i have an incredible tolerance and its being going like that for a long time and i still get euphoric and totally not freaking out from bud. however even after breaks, my tolerance lowers and this good ass weed gives me a trip with visuals and everything if i do sensory deprivation. almost more intense than any psychs ive done... except maybe salvia. different strokes i guess. weed is a soft drug fasho IME
 
Just read the whole thread and agree with the majority of the people here.

I used to smoke weed everyday during the last two years of high school. I used to even go to school high sometimes and it would be fine.

Some time during the last few months of high school I started to get anxiety on pot, especially in social environments. It was over the stupidest things and wouldn't usually get anxious in a situation like that if I were sober.

I tripped really hard on acid recently while my family was sleeping, and even in that environment I was able to control it. Best trip of my life.

Now I'm starting to wonder if it was an underlying problem at the time that started to cause that anxiety from pot or if it's just a side effect from long term use. Another factor might be that I started using opiates at that time and the weed high seemed more 'intense' than the opiate highs.

Talking to girls suck when you're high... (or anxious)

P.S.
FreedomOfTheMind said:
Anyways, think about the root of your anxiety and analyze it. Is it worth it? Do you have a good reason to be anxious? Why are you scared being high around people? Are you worried about their perception of you? Why? That is just ego games. Your entire perception of yourself is based on how you perceive other people perceiving you. Stop the cycle and realize the ego as a false center and realize the true center lies within you. There is no reason to be anxious about what other people think of you since we are all ONE BEING and there is no reason that u are less capable or less worthy than anybody. We are all fundamentally the same; all duality is falsely imagined. This process enabled me to get rid of all cannabis induced anxiety, since I find most of it stems from silly things like being worried about your perception by others.
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Those are my exact thoughts from my last acid trip! I just hope I can apply it to my every day sober life.
 
DOB said:
Smoking weed on acid peak is my recipe for pure religious ecstasy
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I find it wonderful as well.

I actually find that while tripping (on acid and LSA only, not 2C's) I can smoke much more weed than I usually can, without anxiety. Like, 2-4 times as much (though i'm a lightweight w/regards to weed)
 
k20 said:
Talking to girls suck when you're high... (or anxious)
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well i thought i was the only one hahaha. i've been in situations where i had a 99% chance of getting laid, but i ended up smoking weed and well you know how that goes.

but yeah i agree w/ the consensus here.
 
for me i find that if i smoke actual high grade i dont get any panic attacks and am more relaxed but it might be the sative or the indica but either or the shitty stree/ high school shit aint for me gives me pannic attacks
 
I was a heavy cannabis smoker for 4 years and with every day passing indulging in more and more cannabis until i came down with a lung infection and basically stopped smoking. I switched up my heavy smoking ritual with dropping L and eating hash every now and again. Now that i havent smoked for a good ammount of time i now get anxiety when i get high. Never in my life was i feeling like that at all. I used to be able to smoke as much as i could get my hands on without having any problems.

I had the thought that sence my tolerance has dropped to basically nothing, i get too high. It makes me quite angry because i used to love smoking weed, but not its just too much anxiety. Not sure if i should fight through it and wait till my tolerance is back up again or what?

But the up come of an lsd trip is quite intense as well. Not even close to the came ball park as the high from marijuana. When i get anxiety from LSD its just everything starts going so fast i cant catch my thoughts. When on heavy amounts of cannabis im so cloudy in the brain that socaily its terrible. Not sure what happened. Boy do i sure miss not having anxiety.
 
I agree with what everyone's saying here.

The first year I smoked weed, it was like a life saviour. I felt so wonderful everytime I smoked, and I could go to school, walk around town or do anything. Then suddenly I started to have these negative thought loops about myself, which started to ruin my self esteem. I got some social anxiety from this, which I'm still dealing with.
And one night, when I was smoking with some friends, I suddenly got real bad anxiety. I also got weird depersonalisation when I watched myself in the mirror. Really really dark, weird stuff went through my mind. And this has been the case every time I smoked since that day, pretty much.

Every time when I'm in these horrible confusing thought loops, I'm thinking I'll never smoke again. But I do anyway. Last time was yesterday. I had some fun when I played video games and listened to music but I kept going back to the anxiety in my head.

Weed used to be amazing, happy, colorful. Now it's just dark and creepy, I'm afraid of everything and afraid of going insane. I know deep down though that I'm not. It's like the weed is doing the thinking. It's really sad that this has happened.
Acid is, like someone said before, what weed used to be for me.
 
No matter how sensitive you are to cannabis, I find it hard to believe that the anxiety from pot can rival that possible from a hellishly bad trip.
 
The anxiety I've had with cannabis is always very irrational and visceral, delusional I'd say, very rarely does it have an emotional component. And in some respects, this has always made it manageable for me.

In no way can it compare with the emotional rollercoaster and anxiety that psychedelics can generate... the dark introspection, the soul-stripped-bare that you're confronted with... it is this deeper territory that a bad trip can take you to which will leave people in a mental hospital or curled up in a corner begging for death. I've never seen cannabis anxiety in myself or others ever quite reach the powerful depths that psychedelics can take you to.

It is this very human, emotional anxiety that for me is the truly terrifying as opposed to the animalistic, visceral anxiety of cannabis.
 
dankstersauce said:
I've had countless panic attacks from cannabis and only one from LSD. I've noticed that I learn more from a panic attack on LSD than a cannabis induced one. For example if I'm tripping out on LSD, it's much easier to attempt to figure out why I'm feeling the way I'm feeling and what I can do about it. Also the LSD panic attack in my opinion is usually a bit more giggly and it's easier to laugh off my insane thoughts.

IMO cannabis panic attacks are usually completely irrational and once it's over I don't even think about it, and I'm just glad that it's over. And they aren't the type of panic attack where I can calm myself down through laughing at how stupid they are because when they happen they feel very real. With LSD i know the anxiety is irrational.

IMHO people really down play the cannabis panic attacks....I know I did, I never understood what people were talking about when they said weed gave them anxiety until after smoking daily for years I just started to have them.
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SAME thing happened to me after years of smoking now I FINALLY get panic attacks, and BARLEY.
 
i find i can talk myself out of lsd anxiety while cannabis anxiety requires using alcohol or opiates, and i won't smoke cannabis without one of the two available. all in all i dislike cannabis, although it was a lot of fun for a few years.
 
I really only get anxiety from cannabis if I smoke before I have to go to work or something, so I don't anymore. I'm usually too caught up in the good vibes of an acid trip to be thinking about anxiety....unless I see a cop or something.
 
I green regularly, but on trips I find it just messes my head a little, I have a friend who smokes more than me and on his trips a single joint will send him into a bad confused, loopy state.
IMO try trips a few times, then when you're comfortable try smoking a little green and build it up.
 
I have had some very bad panic attacks on weed but looking back, nothing has happened that wasn't supposed to happen. I've reevaluated my life. In terms of psychs, I have yet to try any yet for basically the same reason as the OPer. Planning on K soon though.
 
yeesh don't get me started on my noid anxiety. I feel like I've never gotten it until the night I smoked weed several hours into an acid trip... then it started happening on my trips (mostly when I threw weed into the mix) then noids alone started activating it pretty heavily. I don't know howto describe it.. delusional? loops? depersonalization? deja vu? it's almost like a salvia or dmt level experience. I get into a spiral of thinking about life, death, dreams, psychedelics.. at least I have my wife to take care of me when this happens now.. sometimes it happens to both of us at the same time and we don't mention it until we've come down from it
I remember a girl in HS went nuts claiming the weed was sprayed with pcp or something and everyone just explained oh it's a panic attack it happens to everyone once in a while.. I had never really gotten one at that point. I don't get this as much lately but I'd usually go into a twitch/shake mode... now noids seem to give me GI problems and when I have gas I get the same look on my face as I do when I have anxiety... my wife can always tell if I'm having an issue.
 
I think it's kind of like car accidents, weed consistently gives me worse anxiety each time i use it, like having a series of minor to more severe where i'd leave with some injuries, whereas psychadelics normally don't give me anxiety, but when they do, it's like a head-on collision.

But it's also kind of like a deep cut vs. paper cut-the deep one doesn't really bother me as much initially from pain, mainly the psychological effect is after youu look at it, and if it heals it makes a good scar, paper cuts are tiny in comparison but i think every time it hurts just as much on the surface.

anyway, since ive lived to tell about both, i would say weed paranoia has pushed me to where i hardly ever smoke when i used to smoke a lot each day. psychs i'd do again if they were available, although i'd never want to experience another trip like the bad one on shrooms i had, i think now that i've done it, it would be easier to deal with, not saying EASY as it could be just as bad or worse, but experience is a teacher, weed i would only do by myself or with trusted people, i get borderline panic attacks over nothing when i smoke it and that really kills the buzz, defeats the purpose
 
I find anxiety quite a common effect on Cannabis - so much so that it can often make the experience feel quite negative.

LSD on the other hand I find to be generally anxiolytic - in that LSD generally kills anxiety, and I've found its been fine to take LSD at festivals and even in nightclubs.

The only bad trip I've ever had (which was, admittedly on LSD), was when I smoked a fair amount of cannabis on top of it, and found the effects to be somewhat overwhelming, with a good dose of additional anxiety thrown in.

I have a fair amount of anxiety on a day-to-day basis, but find most psychedelics eliminate this anxiety.

This is however only my experience.
 
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