pbuilder
Bluelighter
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You don't have to have "underlying issues" or any of that nonsense. I know the chillest people who smoke a joint and won't say a word, just freak out in their own minds so they don't touch the stuff. These are people who back in high school loved pot. If you get anxious while high but you're not when you're sober then point the finger at the chemical THC which is screwing with your brains and making you more anxious which is probably the most common side effect of the drug that is reported. Especially if you have been smoking too much, this can happen to veteran potheads and all of a sudden they can't smoke weed ever again. But are they going to quit? It's probably going to take them some time to figure it out, that there are no longer any positive effects and that the experience has been ruined by overdoing it. That's what happened to me it took forever to admit, since for the longest time before I started getting crazy anxious, I loved the herb.
That's interesting and I've actually heard of that switch happening to some veterans but it seems so backwards to me. For me it's always been the more often I smoke (and the more amount I smoke), overtime the less side effects I get at all period, because I build up a tolerance and then can smoke and get high but basically forget I'm high even and go about my day. It's if I haven't smoked in months and If I smoke to much that I may have an anxiety attack if a) I'm around to many people in public b) I get some really bad news c) I get high and start noticing weird behaviour from people I'm around, or get a different vibe from them. (Probably just paranoia) The worst is if you suddenly feel like you notice a person acting super fake, this may be paranoia.
But ya if I smoke often that all goes away. The one side effect I still get is I can feel a little awkward on weed and a little self conscious. That I hate because I can do something sober and not question my actions but later when high I may question my previous actions.
The real solution to all this I've found:
Find a dispensary that sells high cbd strains. I get little anxiety if there is above 2-4% cbd, and Ideally not anxiety at all with equal thc to cbd ratio. Even just 1% cbd helps though, I don't get why high cbd strains are so uncommon and most grade AAAA weed is fucking 25% thc and sub .5% cbd!
Thc and cbd go together like bread and butter, I will always choose the high cbd strain every single time.
I also think that weed definitely does "exacerbate" underlying anxiety issues though, so some people just aren't wired to smoke. I also think if you have a suppressed trauma or are living a kind of "fake persona" life, weed can really give you a panic attack because it will force you to acknowledge things about yourself.
For me, weed is actually decent for ego loss, it's always been quite psychedelic for me. This is great for getting perspective on things.
I'll tell you one thing though, when I first smoked weed at 14 I got so high, anxious and paranoid, I thought I'd never smoke again and hated smoking for several years even though I would always still smoke with my older bro and his dickhead friends (I think smoking around people you don't neccesarily like or know very well can also cause anxiety).
And funnily enough some of his dick head friends actually matured grew up and are some of my best friends now.
But after all these years now, I love weed