any of you blokes get anxiety from smoking bud?

[pompende]

you'll find a balance over time. alcohol takes care of most anxiety for me but mixing too much of it with weed can take you to spin-town.

if you really want to feel good on the weekend tho eat MXE with some 2c-e... or mushrooms.. or acid... or 2c-c: probably the best, if you can find it.

[mks]

but if i only take like two hits or get a nice buzz before a smoke im fine.

It sounds like you answered your dilemma in your first post. I've smoked for a long time but I don't really like being too blazed. One or two puffs is it and I'm cool for awhile, just a slight mental shift and a slight anti-tension feeling. It's actually kind of stressful to me being too high.

[pompende]

It sounds like you answered your dilemma in your first post. I've smoked for a long time but I don't really like being too blazed. One or two puffs is it and I'm cool for awhile, just a slight mental shift and a slight anti-tension feeling. It's actually kind of stressful to me being too high.

i often wonder why a person with as much common sense as you posts on this board. its appreciated tho.

[wolf89]

I started getting paranoid in general when I smoked

It also greatly seemed to be making my anger problems worse. A lot worse.

Stopped smoking and that went away.

After a while I realised that actually I hadn't even been enjoying being stoned for quite some time and I really didn't miss it which I thought was interesting because at the time I thought that I didn't really want to stop smoking it.

Tried it again since and I still don't enjoy it like I did at the start even after a couple years break.

[Eat Bass]

you'll find a balance over time. alcohol takes care of most anxiety for me but mixing too much of it with weed can take you to spin-town.

if you really want to feel good on the weekend tho eat MXE with some 2c-e... or mushrooms.. or acid... or 2c-c: probably the best, if you can find it.

id like to find some 2cx, unfortunately i dont know anyone with any of it tho. i do know someone with methylone though, its supposedly kind of like mdma but not quite as intense or lovey feeling. anyone have any experience with that?

but if i only take like two hits or get a nice buzz before a smoke im fine.

It sounds like you answered your dilemma in your first post. I've smoked for a long time but I don't really like being too blazed. One or two puffs is it and I'm cool for awhile, just a slight mental shift and a slight anti-tension feeling. It's actually kind of stressful to me being too high.

yeah your right i did answer my own issue. i just dont know why some people get anxiety and such when they smoke a decent amount and others dont. but it does seem like a good majority of people do get paranoia or what have you from blazing, especially when they blaze too much for their tolerance.

edit: thats weird wolf, pot makes me a much nicer person. i dont fight with my gf and i tend to just let things that would normally bother me roll off my shoulder. she actually prefers me to be high lol. im this way on opiates and mdma too haha.

[antipode]

you'll find a balance over time. alcohol takes care of most anxiety for me but mixing too much of it with weed can take you to spin-town.

if you really want to feel good on the weekend tho eat MXE with some 2c-e... or mushrooms.. or acid... or 2c-c: probably the best, if you can find it.

id like to find some 2cx, unfortunately i dont know anyone with any of it tho. i do know someone with methylone though, its supposedly kind of like mdma but not quite as intense or lovey feeling. anyone have any experience with that?

but if i only take like two hits or get a nice buzz before a smoke im fine.

It sounds like you answered your dilemma in your first post. I've smoked for a long time but I don't really like being too blazed. One or two puffs is it and I'm cool for awhile, just a slight mental shift and a slight anti-tension feeling. It's actually kind of stressful to me being too high.

yeah your right i did answer my own issue. i just dont know why some people get anxiety and such when they smoke a decent amount and others dont.

Everybody's different. If your mates are giving you shit, tell them to get fucked. It's your body/brain at the end of the day. All of my friends are daily weedsmokers, but they know I don't smoke often and it's not an issue.

[tuckerlinen]

depends on where I am and what i'm doing.
Once I thought a hand grabbed me while i was in the booth late and stoned
totally irrational but I was so very scared, and the adrenaline rush ruined the high after that

[wolf89]

you'll find a balance over time. alcohol takes care of most anxiety for me but mixing too much of it with weed can take you to spin-town.

if you really want to feel good on the weekend tho eat MXE with some 2c-e... or mushrooms.. or acid... or 2c-c: probably the best, if you can find it.

id like to find some 2cx, unfortunately i dont know anyone with any of it tho. i do know someone with methylone though, its supposedly kind of like mdma but not quite as intense or lovey feeling. anyone have any experience with that?

but if i only take like two hits or get a nice buzz before a smoke im fine.

It sounds like you answered your dilemma in your first post. I've smoked for a long time but I don't really like being too blazed. One or two puffs is it and I'm cool for awhile, just a slight mental shift and a slight anti-tension feeling. It's actually kind of stressful to me being too high.

yeah your right i did answer my own issue. i just dont know why some people get anxiety and such when they smoke a decent amount and others dont. but it does seem like a good majority of people do get paranoia or what have you from blazing, especially when they blaze too much for their tolerance.

edit: thats weird wolf, pot makes me a much nicer person. i dont fight with my gf and i tend to just let things that would normally bother me roll off my shoulder. she actually prefers me to be high lol. im this way on opiates and mdma too haha.

Well, when I was stoned I was generally a nice person. Maybe started to just get a little withdrawn but really the problem was any time in between being high I could lose my temper incredibly badly after a while. I had the lethargy from being stoned continue when I was sober at first then the paranoia started to continue then I noticed it was making me more angry (or at least less able to control it)

Had a horrible disconnected from everything feeling every so often. Like I'd be talking to someone and then start feeling like it was a dream or something.

Good job I stopped smoking cause I'm sure it was somehow all connected (as it went all away after I'd stopped for a couple months).

[Eat Bass]

haha ^

and my friends dont give me shit about it really...they just want me to join them and get high with them. they dont like make fun of me or anything there just like dude smoke this L with us. and ill either say no or take a few rips nowadays. but when i do smoke the whole thing i just get uncomfortably high now and its not enjoyable..

and yeah wolf i know what you mean, that kinda happened to me with the being paranoid or anxiety sorta thing because when you smoke a lot even when ur not stoned your still sort of in that mind set.

[inDistinkt]

Your just getting too high. I smoke everyday also, you build up a tolerance and can smoke bowl after bowl without feeling too phased, so you have the mentality you can just get extremely baked and handle it, when the fact is, your not getting very high because of your tolerance.

Your body has a limit of how much THC it can take, and once that limit is reached, smoking more will have no effect (one of the theories behind why you can't OD from THC). So when your body has a tolerance, smoking more on top of that, literally doesn't get you as high as you should be, since the tolerance itself has become your normal mind state. So when you take a few days off and smoke again, even though you may be an experienced smoker, your going to physically get higher than you've been in a long time which can be overwhelming obviously.

In my experience, if you want to smoke every day, the best way to keep your tolerance at a good level is to just smoke less. Instead of a whole bowl just take 3-4 hits, and try only smoking at night on weekdays/limit day time smoking to weekends as much as possible. At first you may not be getting high enough, but after a while your tolerance will adjust and those few hits will have you feeling just as high as a whole bowl did when your tolerance was higher. You'll feel just as high and be saving money/weed.


tl:dr// The key is to just experiment a little and find a level where your tolerance is high enough you don't get the anxiety and bad side effects, but you still get a nice buzz. No one is really sure why weed acts this way, but once you have a tolerance, smoking less (over time) is the key to getting higher.

[dub-ray]

i use it for anxiety issues

[deepbreakfast]

Im in the same boat as alot of you, used to blaze all the time with friends and by myself. after 4 or 5 years of smoking consistently, the high became progressively less enjoyable. Now i enjoy being level headed more than i do being blazed.

I think the main draw for me used to be that feeling of "whoa, this is an awesome escape from reality" that altered perspective used to be incredibly enjoyable, even though i would get the occasional anxiety. Food tasted better, time slowed down, everything was funnier, music sounded better etc etc, all the good things that comes along with the herbal.

As the years went on, those sensations went away and all i was left with was a consistent weed head fog and overly introspective, anxious thoughts.

bottom line, as other have said, do what makes you feel comfortable.

[Eat Bass]

Im in the same boat as alot of you, used to blaze all the time with friends and by myself. after 4 or 5 years of smoking consistently, the high became progressively less enjoyable. Now i enjoy being level headed more than i do being blazed.

I think the main draw for me used to be that feeling of "whoa, this is an awesome escape from reality" that altered perspective used to be incredibly enjoyable, even though i would get the occasional anxiety. Food tasted better, time slowed down, everything was funnier, music sounded better etc etc, all the good things that comes along with the herbal.

As the years went on, those sensations went away and all i was left with was a consistent weed head fog and overly introspective, anxious thoughts.

bottom line, as other have said, do what makes you feel comfortable.

this is exactly how i feel to a T. i knew i wasnt alone and some of my friends are in the same boat as me but most of them look at me like im crazy...especially when im jamming perc 30's up my nose and denying a blunt.

@ dub ray - im not an inexperienced smoker at all. been smoking on and off for about 7 years. and your totally right with the tolerance stuff. i dont want to smoke everyday just like a few times a week but i try doing that and its not enjoyable. so either im going to have to build a tolerance (which is a dumb idea) or just smoke a lot less if i want to smoke. the problem with that is when my friends want me to throw 5 if im smoking i wont get my weeds worth. so im just gonna have to have my own little stash and a little bowl to take a rip from here and there haha.

[deepbreakfast]

I also hear you on the friend aspect. Pretty much all of my friends smoke regularly, so whenever we would chill there would usually be a blunt or a j or something being passed around and it became routine to hit it. Even if i didnt enjoy the high, i would still blaze and this went on for maybe half a year or more. Eventually it got to the point where i just said fuck it, im gonna pass. sure, it took some explaining, " dude, you serious? why arent you smoking" type of shit. I would simply explain that recently i havent been enjoying it etc... didnt change anything about the relationships i had with any of my friends who smoke consistently

[deepbreakfast]

be careful with those pills, homie

[Eat Bass]

no doubt bro. and yeah one good thing is me not smoking hasent changed any of my relationships with my friends that do smoke.

[3rdeye]

I didn't used to.

But then I got old lol and everything changed - I find now that it can proper mess with my head in a way it never did before.

[NW_DUBAHOLIC]

Same shit happened to me. I have my medical card for migraines and I used to smoke about 1.5 grams to myself everyday and had a higher tolerance than anyone I knew. One day my heart started racing and I had a really bad panic attack and every time I smoked after that I would get really anxious. I still continued to smoke so I could get rid of my migraines but I would get extremely anxious. It got to the point where I would rather have a migraine than smoke. Lately it's been getting better though. I'm getting back to being able to smoke like normal almost a year after the first panic attack.

[budsteq]

hmmm yeah, after a couple years of everyday use, I started to feel really depressed whenever I got blazed. Stopped using for about a year, now I just dabble in it occasionally and it feels great every time.

[knell]

glad lyons is talking about something besides drugs for a change