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Why does cannabis cause social anxiety/shyness?

Sometimes I'll get panic attacks if I smoke a ridiculous amount of chronic (two giant steamroller hits in a row = does not want) in one sitting, but for the most part, pot is a marvelous drug for me. I only really ever smoke when I'm by myself or with a couple of good friends, anyways.

I have noticed, however, that I'm a bit more reluctant to open up to people who don't smoke now. I guess I just have too many stoner pals to expect otherwise...I should do something about that. :/
 
Weed doesn't make me socially shy or anxious, rather it provides me with such a sleepy state of happy contentness that I honestly can't be fucked talking and am perfectly happy not saying a fucking word. That and I almost always get nasty cotton mouth when I smoke and a killer sore throat.

Also when i'm stoned in public, I tend to realize how ridiculously fucking stupid I look with my bloodshot red eyes and feel a bit embarresed - much better to chill with a friend or two, watch movies and just enjoy staring at the wall.

Even with chiks around, I may feel like I want a root but talking just isn't something I want to do, and sometimes I feel if they aren't stoned to then it's awkward.

Everyone's different I spose.
 
Yeah, its really a dosage issue. I've found most people do smoke a bit more than they need to, though such does become the case if you're smoking several times a day and such. I never smoke joints, I see it as a pure waste. Its always the smallest pinch possible for me, and if thats not enough, well another small pinch maybe, ever conserving, so to speak. Also I personally hate to smoke with others unless I know them very well. Like many psychoactives, set and settnig are vital to experience. All that being said, at the end of the day, when I'm alone and anxious about things I cannot change, a puff or two most definitly calms me down.
 
Weed makes me be socially shy too but as it is already said , I think it's a question of dosage...And even more a question of global health , for example when u smoke a lot of weed for a certain period of time and that u are only smoking weed with no other or almost no other activities ( no hobby , no sport , nothing ) your anxiety and the fact ur shy with other people grows , more u smoke , stronger is ur anxiety... If u do sport , if you are in your studies , if you do a lot of things it will be ok even if u smoke weed...you must keep the control on your personality , if u feel sometimes u are the leader and u speak easy with everybody and sometimes u are shy and are only thinking alone in your head it means the weed has take control of you
imo , the best thing to do is : when u feel u are getting " socially shy " stop smoke weed for a while :D

Nishrooms
 
Lol, maybe I am getting better from my sosial phobia, thanks to Effexor 150 mgs day. I can smoke bud and then go inside to chat with my mom if I wanted to :) . She doesn't like me drug use at all


I think weed intensifies the problems that you already have when your sober.
 
It's just the nature of the drug, imo. But, I feel that contributes to the introspective and thinking that comes from it.

But if you feel it's becoming a problem, it most likely has to do with how you actually are to some extent. And I'd suggest taking a break. After xmas break I plan on taking a long break (a couple of months, the longest I've ever gone is 3 weeks, and did that once. I've been smoking for over a year) in part because of this issue.
 
And I would say that if you experience anxiety after using cannabis so much, actually you get worried by the fact that you ARE smoking so much.
 
iameatingjam said:
Weed definitely makes me less social.
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It depedns on the strain. Sativa definetely make me more anxious(paranoid) and the thing that makes me most anxious is social situations. Indica is different. Also i can pass as normal when im on an indica, while on a sativa it always seems people look at me like im crazy. amphetamines, benzos, or alcohol can help with this problem. I find this is only a problem with weed and to some extent with LSD, but with LSD im expected to act irrational and am usually not in a public environment where is should act normal.
 
melange said:
After awhile you can usually build up a tolerance to the anxiety.
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THis is true too. If u suddenly smoke a lot of weed every day many times a day on a regular basis, out of nowhere you will get very paranoid. U shouild first get used to the effects of weed in a place where ur comfortable. THen after maybe a few months, u should be more experienced. People dont realize this. Being high in public is something only experienced smokers should do otherwise u WILL get paranoid.

Being experienced with LSD or shrooms will take many years or usage. But high, or for some moderate, dose LSD or shrooms or any mainstream psychedelic can never be used in a public environment safely, or without people noticing.
 
When I'm stoned and out in public I feel insecure that I might trip over my words or say something that sounds stupid (that only another stoner might understand) - my mind is usually racing far too fast for my mouth to keep up. Conversation is therefore kept to a minimum.
 
it's normal it's like when u are tripping , when i am tripping on mushrooms or so I don't like to speak and to interact with other sober people but I like to have conversations with other trippers , ur " thinking patterns " are different with a drug , and even if the weed don't produce hallucinations it puts u in a world that normal people don't understand and that makes them unintresting and superficial to you , this isolation is more powerfull with psychedelics but exists with MJ
 
Nah, it's a lot worse than that^^

I have anxiety when I smoke weed probably about 1000 times worse than all of you. I have quit. Never tried using benzos for it because I never had them around at the time. I imagine instant sleep.
 
The weirdest part about this is that LSD, a stronger psychedelic, actually makes me SOCIALABLE, while weed, which is barely a hallucinogen, makes me paranoid and screws with my mind to no end.

Heck, if it weren't for the fact that you can't drive on it, I'd almost want to live my whole life on LSD.
 
lol ive never done lsd, kinda scared, never know what you might do, heard bad stories, i quit weed tho fuck weed it dont make me socially happy no more
 
r4nd0mj0k3r said:
so My buddy brodie calls me in the morning almost every day to smoke some schwag, but when i smoke it, it's like it brings out the shy me and social anxiety part of me or somethin i get silent and feel awkward around people.
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Yeah I still get that sometimes. Whenever I say something the words echo in my head for a long time afterwards until they start to sound absolutely ridiculous and I think "oh man what did I just say? Does my voice really sound like that? What does my voice sound like?" It's lessened a bit though. The social aspect of weed overpowers the introverted aspect at this point in my toking career. Maybe it's because I have better friends now than I did starting out/I know them better and feel more comfortable with them.

Maybe try to get some different shit. I remember they used to call weed that made you all anxious and jumpy (i.e. sativa) "n****r weed", because it was usually shwag sold by poorer people, and poorer people tended to be black where I lived. Whenever someone related a bad trip story to someone else they'd say "oh well that's what happens when you smoke n****r weed".
 
My buddy is exactly like this, he used to smoke a lot and then stopped because of it. He takes 1-2 hits from my bong every night now and it seems he is slowly becoming more social
 
Sorry to drag this topic back up but;

Before I started smoking weed (maybe three or more years ago now) I was one of those real extrovert types. These days, social situations scare the shit out of me. I don't mean around friends, I mean like new people at work, women or just generally meeting new people. You guys reckon thats weed related, yeah? Also, slighty OT, what would you guys recommend I try and get from the doctor to help with depression/social anxiety?
 
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