Strains that DON'T cause social anxiety & paranoia, but DO make you feel motivated, euphoric, and mellow?

[CharlesTheHammer]

Here's my situation: From 1984 - 1997(age 16-29), I was a weekend beer drinker who occasionally smoked a hit or two of pot. I always limited my pot uptake to 1-2 hits.

I suffered from social anxiety disorder & depression. Alcohol 'occasionally' helped a little. But marijuana would usually exacerbate it, so I turned it down 80% of the time.

I quit drinking alcohol in 1997 and pot in 2001. In 2024, I learned that there were medical AND recreational dispensaries in Maryland. I REALLY wanted to smell, taste and view these allegedly superior modern marijuana strains!

In July 2024, I began buying 1/8 oz's of various strains of dispensary flower every 3-5 weeks, which is how long it lasts me 1 hit-at-a-time! I'd been choosing either pure sativa, a sativa dominant hybrid, or a 50%/50% blend.

Strains that exacerbated social anxiety and caused slight paranoia.

X: 1937; Durban Dream
X: Curio Everyday; Tropicana Cherry.

Strains that didn't seem to cause anxiety or paranoia(unless smoked to excess):
✓Strane: Commando
✓Curio Everyday: Grandi Guava


~~What strains do you recommend for NOT causing paranoia and anxiety, but feeling motivation, euphoria, mellow but not couch-lock? Thanks

 

[Egzoset]

...occasionally smoked... ...always limited my pot uptake to 1-2 hits. ... In July 2024, I began buying 1/8 oz's of various strains of dispensary flower every 3-5 weeks...

How big the cigar?? Do you let it burn in the ashtray?... Legaleezation made it a luxury without automatically raising quality, hence spending money this way can prove anxiogenic too, not to mention i notice you're a smoker anyway, which means there's a whole spectrum of secondary/tertiary by-products involved because of combustion smoke, so why blame cannabis specifically! Besides those vilification vectors i can think of a few more aspects which i seem to repeat every now and then:

...i would like to see the results analyzed through these 4 "reality-filters" of mine:

#1) Neuro-plasticity; ​

#2) Contaminants; ​

#3) Consumption Method & Ritual; ​

#4) Socio-toxic 3rd-party interference​

It's not only a matter of plant genetics IMO, maybe it would help to have a closer look at that consumption profile going back to George Orwell (...), including the hand-rolled "joint" i presume, plus its surrounding ambiance on top of possibly some sneaky neighbourhood around. Which translates as complex dynamics compared to simply choosing a name printed on that flowers bag which would last me twice as long and i don't even feel this is restrictive, enjoying 3 ~ 4 puffs every 3 ~ 4 hours often starting from sunrise in my rocking chair, close to the window and keeping a drink nearby (which ain't no alcohol). Sometimes also while music is playing.

Long long ago i remember my routine was based on a "tokeu": e.g. a tube closed by a flexible obturator at the far end with a joint inside. This was meant to be economic but the stress trying to avoid wasting my precious load of blond imported tobacco & haschish eventually felt like i was chasing time, because it would risk to extinguish between 2 tokes and each time lighting up again would add to the cost considering nearly half of it was being actually destroyed by fire to vaporize the rest. An unsatisfying attempt lead to another then i realized this killed the fun, not to mention the act of re-centering my universe on a piece of paraphernalia found in a Montréal basement smokeshop... I could have learned from playing a while with hot knives but instead all i was able to see happened to be damaged cutlery to be hidden when having visitors. Etc.

Yet even in the 3rd age it's possible to unlearn the old ways and try something new in hope of an improvement. I suggest you put my reality-filter to test with personal introspection of your own, on the look for anxiogenic elements, similar to the obsession of performance in sex if i may use such parallel.

Good day, have fun!!

 

[CharlesTheHammer]

How big the cigar?? Do you let it burn in the ashtray?... Legaleezation made it a luxury without automatically raising quality, hence spending money this way can prove anxiogenic too, not to mention i notice you're a smoker anyway, which means there's a whole spectrum of secondary/tertiary by-products involved because of combustion smoke, so why blame cannabis specifically! Besides those vilification vectors i can think of a few more aspects which i seem to repeat every now and then:



It's not only a matter of plant genetics IMO, maybe it would help to have a closer look at that consumption profile going back to George Orwell (...), including the hand-rolled "joint" i presume, plus its surrounding ambiance on top of possibly some sneaky neighbourhood around. Which translates as complex dynamics compared to simply choosing a name printed on that flowers bag which would last me twice as long and i don't even feel this is restrictive, enjoying 3 ~ 4 puffs every 3 ~ 4 hours often starting from sunrise in my rocking chair, close to the window and keeping a drink nearby (which ain't no alcohol). Sometimes also while music is playing.

Long long ago i remember my routine was based on a "tokeu": e.g. a tube closed by a flexible obturator at the far end with a joint inside. This was meant to be economic but the stress trying to avoid wasting my precious load of blond imported tobacco & haschish eventually felt like i was chasing time, because it would risk to extinguish between 2 tokes and each time lighting up again would add to the cost considering nearly half of it was being actually destroyed by fire to vaporize the rest. An unsatisfying attempt lead to another then i realized this killed the fun, not to mention the act of re-centering my universe on a piece of paraphernalia found in a Montréal basement smokeshop... I could have learned from playing a while with hot knives but instead all i was able to see happened to be damaged cutlery to be hidden when having visitors. Etc.

Yet even in the 3rd age it's possible to unlearn the old ways and try something new in hope of an improvement. I suggest you put my reality-filter to test with personal introspection of your own, on the look for anxiogenic elements, similar to the obsession of performance in sex if i may use such parallel.

Good day, have fun!!

When it comes to smoking bud, I have never been a big fan of joints or blunts. Last July when I started smoking pot again, I bought a cheap metal bowl with a screw on lid that has a small hole on top, which provides extreme coughing hits if you aren't careful. It also immediately extinguishes the burning weed as soon as you cover the hole.

One guy refers to this little bowl as a bong, because that's how hard it hits when you leave the lid on and light it through the little hole on top.

I'll occasionally purchase a pre-roll in order to sample a different strain, but I stick to my convenient bowl.

***BTW, I just took photos of my bowl, but it won't let me add photos from my phone. It seems to only allow url photos from other websites. What am I missing here?

 

[Electrum1]

Here's my situation: From 1984 - 1997(age 16-29), I was a weekend beer drinker who occasionally smoked a hit or two of pot. I always limited my pot uptake to 1-2 hits.

I suffered from social anxiety disorder & depression. Alcohol 'occasionally' helped a little. But marijuana would usually exacerbate it, so I turned it down 80% of the time.

I quit drinking alcohol in 1997 and pot in 2001. In 2024, I learned that there were medical AND recreational dispensaries in Maryland. I REALLY wanted to smell, taste and view these allegedly superior modern marijuana strains!

In July 2024, I began buying 1/8 oz's of various strains of dispensary flower every 3-5 weeks, which is how long it lasts me 1 hit-at-a-time! I'd been choosing either pure sativa, a sativa dominant hybrid, or a 50%/50% blend.

Strains that exacerbated social anxiety and caused slight paranoia.

X: 1937; Durban Dream
X: Curio Everyday; Tropicana Cherry.

Strains that didn't seem to cause anxiety or paranoia(unless smoked to excess):
✓Strane: Commando
✓Curio Everyday: Grandi Guava


~~What strains do you recommend for NOT causing paranoia and anxiety, but feeling motivation, euphoria, mellow but not couch-lock? Thanks

I've noticed that strains with a more balanced THC to CBD ratio are better for not causing anxiety during the day. Avoid strains that are high THC with low CBD

 

[Egzoset]

...I bought a cheap metal bowl with a screw on lid that has a small hole on top...

Does it look like some clone of this one?

[ https:// i.postimg.cc/WtLn9v1h/Vapo-Bowl.jpg ]​

...I just took photos of my bowl, but it won't let me add photos...

This present site doesn't host illustrations, instead participating members must rely on external resources indeed, like PostImage as shown above.

There's a learning curve as a trade-off for the relatively low price.

 

[Innerpeace]

CBD seems to cause a more social feeling .

 

[BourbonMac]

Just look for kushes, or strains like Grandaddy Purple, Northern Lights. A lot of strains nowadays are hybrids, but then a lot are very strong Indica dominant hybrids. Everyone's different, for some people, the terpenes affect the high a lot which is the case for me. Linalool makes me tired as hell, Terpinolene, Pinene, Limonene are stimulating and cerebral for me.

Terpinolene is the most intense, and this is the dominant terp in Durban Poison. If you felt uncomfortable and have social anxiety already, no wonder! I'm the opposite and it opens me up, while relaxing strains get me all thinking, I get sleepy, and then if I'm out with people I kinda just wanna go home and sleep. Strains like Durban Poison would absolutely give me anxiety in the past, but I have some THCa diamonds of it. It's definitely got a kick.

Indica/Sativa doesn't completely matter, it's mostly marketing. But if you're smoking like, pure Sativa it's not an uncommon reaction. Durban Poison? Yeah that would give a loooot of people sensitive to weed anxiety lol. It would be good for me because Indica make me too tired. I used to get paranoid for awhile too (I'm 31) from like, 19-23. I'd have to drink to not have a bad high or panic attack or just some weird shit.

From what I've researched, Sativa strains tend to have terpene profiles that are more stimulating than Indica or hybrids overall. If you ever hear of the strain J-1/ack Skunk #1, Jack Skunk, get that. It's the most chill and relaxing, but cerebral high I've ever had. Wish I had unlimited. Like Durban Poison is also dominant in Terpinolene, but J-1 sounds exactly like the kind of strain you'd really enjoy. Getting a nice cerebral high that is also just so chill and euphoric, unbelievably so. I guess I'll list some strains I'd recommend?


Grapefruit
Cherry Pie
Gastropop
Lemon Cherry Gelato
Blue Dream
Coke Ritz
J-1
Afghoo (aka Afghooey)
Garlic Breath
Grape Gape
Ice/Ice #2
Grape Pie
Grape Gas
Blueberry OG (1:1 THC to CBD) - at least sometimes is one of those strains
Blue Shark (high (Same)
Medi Haze
YMCA (Same) - This one's exceptional. If you ever found 1:1 strains, like 10% THC, 15% CBD (it has lower bioavailability, so it's percentage will usually be higher to compensate), then you'll love it. I ate edibles of this and it was so sedating and great.
GMO
Zkittles
Trifle Butter
Wedding Crasher
Chocolate Diesel (not as threatening as Sour Diesel can be). Can be quite sedating and euphoric tho IME, while also keeping you motivated. Similar to Blue Dream
Banana Markers
Lemon Pastries
Space Center
Black Maple
Chemdawg
Garlic Budder
Sour Garlic Cookies
Alien Cookies
Girl Scout Cookies
Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies
Fortune Cookies
Forbidden Fruit
Moonbow
GG #4 (Gorilla Glue #4) - honestly most glue strains I've smoked are some of the most balanced overall
Lemon Tree
G-13
OG Kush
Bubba Kush
Purple Urkle
Pretty much anything Kush
Pretty much anything Gelato
Pretty much anything Afghan based (even Afghan Haze) - Afghan itself while being pure Indica is dominant with stimulating terps, so you'd be chillin and productive
Khalifa Kush
Kush Mints
Runtz strains


Yeah if it says kush or purple on it (unless it were haze or Thai though, I'd love that) I think you should notice a difference.
You can look up Indicas, there are a lot. Budtenders can help you out if you're in a legal state, but I guess that's my advice. We're all built different, but these are more relaxing, sedating types of strains compared to more stimulating things, like the 100% Sativa shit you've been smoking on lol. Strains like these are the definition of mellow. Smoked a blunt of Lemon Cherry Gelato yesterday and was laxing out hard at a fire.

 

[BourbonMac]

Oh, budtenders actually tend to not know shit lol. If you see a strain on a menu or something and want to learn more about it, you could message me if you wanted. To a lot of people, all weed strains give them the same high. They just "get stoned" whereas some of us they are like totally different drugs in a way.

Added a few more on there that I'd forgotten about. Also, definitely always have Leafly or something to quickly look up a strain. Some dispos change up genetics but this isn't super common and is mostly brand specific, but usually the effects will be overall similar.

Indica strains are very often labeled as Sativa on menus which is a great way to lose sales in people who think Sativa's make them more paranoid. They tend to, but again it comes down to your body chemistry. Your endocannabinoid system, how you respond to certain terpenes or cannabinoids, etc. I mean for me it's consistent that Indica's make me tired, but the only real evidence we have is in terpenes. But then why are Myrcene dominant Sativa's still stimulating as hell for me? I think this is a question nobody will ever have a real answer to.

Anyway of all the strains I listed, some are pretty couch lock but most of them aren't really that bad. Generally speaking these are Indica dominant strains but most of them lean towards hybridized effects. If you're the kind of person who can stay awake on those, which apparently is a lot of people then you should be fine. I think maybe only a few of the strains I listed give couch lock. Black Maple is another strain dispos label as a Sativa when it's not. It's 2 of the best Indica's crossed together and it's one I actually enjoy quite a bit actually.

Dulce De Uva is one hell of a couch lock, but the Sherbanger adds some energy through some of its terps. I wondered why a strain where Dulce was in it didn't have me not moving a literal fiber of my body for 6 hours lol. Dispos might have someone smoke it, someone says they felt a cerebral high and like 70% of the time just slap the word Sativa on it. Or it's some lemon strain and they call it a Sativa because most Lemon strains do tend to be Sativa dominant hybrids. OG Kush is definitely a couch lock strain, but Khalifa Kush I found to be completely different and felt a lot more hybridized. I don't know among my list how many of these you've actually smoked, probably at least a few.

Regardless, even if you dislike couch lock, every single one of those strains are extremely mellow, relaxing or euphoric. You do need to keep in mind the THC content in each strain though. Even if a strain should be stimulating, 30% THC can be too much for some people. I smoked up a friend's girl on 4/20 this year with some really strong Sour Diesel and she passed out. I smoke that shit and my body goes off like a rocket lol. So much energy and giggling and fun, I couldn't go to sleep after smoking that the way she did. But a more sedating strain with less THC? She's fine, such as homegrown that my friend's older bro tends to grow. Homegrown THC percentage tends to be around that area.

 

[BourbonMac]

Yeah I'm good on D8... especially since the only known deaths related to THC ingestion are associated with it. CHS has killed quite a few people, but that is very rare and will often go away on its own with abstaining. The problem is with the people who didn't.

Delta 8 carts were kind of popular at the dispensaries for a bit around 4 years ago. You'd see just dispensary made ones, but even those I was wary about, probably a lot of people, and they haven't sold Delta 8 carts ever since.

While OP might like Delta 8 stuff because it's easier on you, lots of people have called it "diet THC" which is pretty accurate from the time I tried it. Took like 10 hits of a GDP cart to feel what I normally would've in one hit of D9. Perhaps even the dispo D8 was giving people strange reactions because we had them in my legal state in various dispos.

I think 1:1 strains would be good for him, but any of the strains I listed are all very chill and not too couch lock. Maybe I'll clean it up and categorize some of them, like which ones are more likely to cause couch lock. OG Kush is absolutely a couch lock strain, but not all cuts are like that. Khalifa Kush is part OG Kush, no one knows what the other side is, but I suspect something like a Haze or Thai based strain because I found it unusually stimulating, but will get couch lock if I smoke a lot.

Most of them should be available in his area since he's in a legal state. Lower THC strains, like around 15% tend to be cheaper in general I've found, and can still get me as high as 20%+ because some of them are so terped up. The Forbidden Fruit strain is like that; around 15% THC but very, very terpy. Would catch me off guard how high it'd get me, but it was a very balanced high.

 

[someguyontheinternet]

what others have said about CBD being a factor in the anxiety caused by cannabis is spot on

my experience with 1:1 CBD:THC is that is much more relaxing, however I didn't find it as motivating so you could play around with ratios

THCv is another to look out for, more dispensaries are carrying THCv products including flower and edibles. THCv is less stoning and doesn't produce as much anxiety for me unless I overdo it but it helps immensely with focus, motivation, and energy

 

[ageingpartyfiend]

instead of believing marketing hypes and trying to get hold of 'unicorn' 50/50 thc/cbd strains I prefer to dose lower on medium/strong thc flower strain (unknown cbd) having 30 minutes or so earlier having sublingually consumed a good 60mg dose of cbd (oil) from a trusted producer

have also noticed that the exact same strain can affect different people entirely differently, and also that the exact same batch of a strain can hit me every differently on different occasions - so there are clearly many variables at play

 

[foodcrisis]

i'm gonna recommend trying a balanced high bred... like some indicas will have the couch lock, but if you go too far sativa some people might be so over whelmed that it's also hard to function, so it could translate to some couch lock or at least confusion with functioning properly.... i really don't know anything about the strains you posted, so this might not be good advice, but something some people might want to think about.

 

[4DQSAR]

I don';t know if you can still get it but when Thai stick became unavailable in the early 90s and all of that mental skunk began to turn up, I quiit.

I like to do stuff after a smoke - not smoke in place of doing stuff.

 

[emkee_reinvented]

Regardless, even if you dislike couch lock, every single one of those strains are extremely mellow, relaxing or euphoric. You do need to keep in mind the THC content in each strain though. Even if a strain should be stimulating, 30% THC can be too much for some people. I smoked up a friend's girl on 4/20 this year with some really strong Sour Diesel and she passed out. I smoke that shit and my body goes off like a rocket lol. So much energy and giggling and fun, I couldn't go to sleep after smoking that the way she did. But a more sedating strain with less THC? She's fine, such as homegrown that my friend's older bro tends to grow. Homegrown THC percentage tends to be around that area.

Wonder what caused it that she passed out. Its less logic then my experience.
Custom here is to blend Weed with Tobacco and smoke in joint s.
This has several effects but worth noting is that the Tobacco.
That kick s in before the THC level s it out and works against the anxiety.
Or a overwhelming high passing out from THC as its hard to smoke to much.

Found this out when hit a huge bong, a set up i was lured in,
loaded with lot s of pure Weed.
I toked, tripped, puked my guts out, crawled in my bed and went to sleep.
Now a days i always smoke pure, just not that much in one toke.
Had a cough attack too att, which was a nice extra.
And people laughing behind my back.

Hahaha. Not a positive experience so went back to mixing.

Which has a problem being that when not a smoker.
Just a toker and you keep smoking that mix,
most non smoker s eventually get nausea and sick from the Tobacco.
Very unpleasant.

But your friend assuming she didn t do such a monster bong hit.
If she would have smoked the same amount of THC,
only by consuming more 20 % THC Weed.

Would she then not have passed out ? Not counting it out but,
It just as well could be that she would not pass out,
on the same amount of THC.Weed is a weird plant !
Smoke on a un-familiar spot and you know why.
Its suddenly twice as strong, why ?

And why don t i experience couch lock, especially since i dropped Tobacco.
The mixed joints with Skunk were a recipe for couch-lock.
Red eyes. At the end i only used one hit to finish whit,
and at night that would kinda couch lock me. But not during the day.

After dropping Tobacco when i started Vaping even stranger, no more red eye.

One more anecdote, the mother of my ex. A terrible Weed grower.
thought she was the best in the world though, her Weed smoked pure.
Her son still used to the mixing method, got so freaking high.

A anxiety attack kicked in, saw it in his eyes that he knew he had to get back home.
And the paranoia hanging over him. One hit of Shatter they call in the UK.
But strain does matter.

 

[kiely]

If I smoke straight Sativa, I don't even know I'm high.


Lol. It's true.

 

[BourbonMac]

You mean something like Durban Poison? I've had rare Sativa strains where the high was light, but the THC% was simply low. I've come to realize that the majority of differences in the high come from the terpene profile though, probably even more than the mild cannabinoids.

Strains consistently dominant in Terpinolene energize and uplift me higher than cloud 9,999. I thought Indica/Sativa had a different high but it's more that Sativa's tend to have terpenes like Terpinolene or Pinene which are more stimulating. Since the fruitiest tasting/smelling strains tend to be Sativa, and Terpinolene or Pinene, or both. Jack Herer and Jack Skunk/J-1 have both and are easily my 2 favorite strains, but J-1 is probably beating Jack Herer by a little bit.

Wonder what caused it that she passed out. Its less logic then my experience.
Custom here is to blend Weed with Tobacco and smoke in joint s.
This has several effects but worth noting is that the Tobacco.
That kick s in before the THC level s it out and works against the anxiety.
Or a overwhelming high passing out from THC as its hard to smoke to much.

Found this out when hit a huge bong, a set up i was lured in,
loaded with lot s of pure Weed.
I toked, tripped, puked my guts out, crawled in my bed and went to sleep.
Now a days i always smoke pure, just not that much in one toke.
Had a cough attack too att, which was a nice extra.
And people laughing behind my back.

Hahaha. Not a positive experience so went back to mixing.

Which has a problem being that when not a smoker.
Just a toker and you keep smoking that mix,
most non smoker s eventually get nausea and sick from the Tobacco.
Very unpleasant.

But your friend assuming she didn t do such a monster bong hit.
If she would have smoked the same amount of THC,
only by consuming more 20 % THC Weed.

Would she then not have passed out ? Not counting it out but,
It just as well could be that she would not pass out,
on the same amount of THC.Weed is a weird plant !
Smoke on a un-familiar spot and you know why.
Its suddenly twice as strong, why ?

And why don t i experience couch lock, especially since i dropped Tobacco.
The mixed joints with Skunk were a recipe for couch-lock.
Red eyes. At the end i only used one hit to finish whit,
and at night that would kinda couch lock me. But not during the day.

After dropping Tobacco when i started Vaping even stranger, no more red eye.

One more anecdote, the mother of my ex. A terrible Weed grower.
thought she was the best in the world though, her Weed smoked pure.
Her son still used to the mixing method, got so freaking high.

A anxiety attack kicked in, saw it in his eyes that he knew he had to get back home.
And the paranoia hanging over him. One hit of Shatter they call in the UK.
But strain does matter.

You used TOBACCO try and offset weed anxiety?? That's what my friends and I did in our teens when we barely had weed and wanted to preserve it lol, but not because of anxiety. It tasted like such ass and made the high feel dirty

 

[emkee_reinvented]

When you are the only one on the planet smoking Weed by itself.
That s how it felt att, though i knew it was a geographic thing.
Like in US everyone tokes pure, while Brit s like the Dutch.
Al way s mix with Tobacco, which ime creates a different high.

It takes away the highest point s, and maybe the lowest. Less panic.
Basically transforming a semi-psychedelic in a hedonistic drug.
Everyone, that smoked my Bong with pure Weed, didn t know the effect of it.

Most shitted Rainbow s when used separate, from Tobacco.
Most if not all did this once, and quickly went back to mixing.
Takes quite a steady stand in live, a hard-head.
To be able to smoke Weed pure, so softies mix it with Tobacco. \
Which wil prevent you getting high.

Just gives a stone, couch lock, munchies and then to bed.
On THC only you work, are active, socially engaged if necessary.
And boosts drive and creativity ime, unlike when you mix in a sigaret.

But most get just super anxious and paranoid, don t ask me why.
But it deter s em from doing it that way again, while the high is superior imo.

 

[emkee_reinvented]

You used TOBACCO try and offset weed anxiety?? That's what my friends and I did in our teens when we barely had weed and wanted to preserve it lol, but not because of anxiety. It tasted like such ass and made the high feel dirty

No but i noticed when i stopped adding it to my Weed, it had that effect.
Temper s with the high, like flattening it out.
Into a more generic feel not to overwhelming.
I like to be overwhelmed so that might explain it.
Like i like LSD, and most people don t.

They rather take MDMA, Coke, Speed and/ or Booze. And avoid the FEAR.
That psychedelic s can give you, a nice kick in the butt if you ask me never hurts.