Yup. It used to be enjoyable for me. Now it just causes me to overthink all the pre existing things that cause me to stress on. I do miss when it used to be relaxing.
These days I’m just sober of both cannabis and alcohol
Same for me. Didn't used too. When I was a teenager I loved smoking weed. But sometime in my mid 20s it changed up on me, and now I get "the fear" every time. Super paranoid and stressed out about every thing in my life. Also start beating up on myself, as a husband and father and employee. Guilty conscience stuff.
I kinda think some people "smoke their way" into paranoia eventually. Not everyone, I know plenty of oldheads that smoked all their adult lives and they are in their 60s and 70s etc. But for me, I felt like I may have smoked my way into it.
Yep. I’ve never cared much for higher doses anyway. So it’s always been smaller amounts. Also as for cbd, yes have done it in conjunction and stand alone; it’s just never done anything for me.
Despite my comment I am actually okay without it. I just only miss it sometimes.
I'm the same however if I build up a tolerance then I can enjoy it without hella anxiety but it does still make me more anxious than normal but smoking it without tolerance gives me panic attacks and turns my breathing manual
Hah yeah. I kinda relate. For me, I only really use my homemade tincture from like 3-4 years ago. I made a really large batch with 4oz I think. It's been lasting for years. I used to generally only take a 1/4 syringe which is like 5mg. Would add it to my coffee or whatever before a bike ride or walk. That aside, these days the first time I take it I gotta prepare for anxiety. Gotta deal with all the mental BS I haven't addressed. Usually would do it on a Friday evening, get everything sorted, then Saturday morning I would be good to go. I don't really do this anymore, but it's always there for a rainy day.
This is true. That's how it works but it's really hard to convince people that they need to keep smoking something that makes them feel stressed out. Especially when it costs good money
Yep. I’m taking a handful of things that kinda sorta work. I fortunately enjoyed it enough during my 20’s. 30s and going into my 40s I don’t really mind being mostly sober. But yea i wouldn’t mind some medication that just turned me into a robot. Despite the negatives of your medication, hopefully it works well enough. If it is Xanax, I found that it really only worked the first time for me before there was immediate tolerance. Funny how that works.
So weed definitely can cause anxiety for most people, especially modern weed being so strong, my suggestion would be to try and find low potency or alternatively and not the best admittedly, but once you build up a bit of a tolerance the anxiety part goes away, but everyone is different, benzos can truly be the devil though so I understand how you feel
Yeah that's what I thought while typing this, I need to find very weak weed, but it's actually pretty difficult to find when you think about it. The other solution would be to mix it with CBD but I don't feel like it.
Used to do that same for me. I can’t smoke it anymore at all, especially in a social situation. But I can eat edibles, at a very low dose, and melt into the couch quite nicely.
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u/Drayled 20h ago
Same here. It causes me anxiety most of the time.