But somehow I doubt it will be found to be that effective.
Now that it's legal and everywhere, I just get super fun panic attacks. I'm worthless, I'm failing as a parent, everybody hates me, you know, the normal anxiety attacks. Even Charlotte's Web that's SUPER low THC gives me panic attacks.
It's like my body hates it when I'm happy? I would give anything to be able to fix this problem.
1. I've eaten like crap. Things too heavy I'm grease, processed food, and red meats. When I'm rating cleaner, I don't feel as panicky
2. If I feel the panic coming on, I HAVE to do some sort of aerobic exercise in that first 15 minute "induction" phase of smoking. Otherwise I'll carry the panic along through the entire session.
FWIW, YMMV
5km goes by fast! And orange juice tastes great after.
Saw someone literally suggesting keeping a CBD vape pen just in case of a panic attack. Or a friend using it for heart palpitations.
Wasn't the amount of THC concentration in resin seen as the indicator of potency? Then that amount was hacked through selective breeding, unbeknownst that not following with a complementary increase in amount of CBD will create an anxiety causing superdrug.
I experienced it once - on a party in a country where CBD strains are legal to buy by anyone, as long as they contain ~0%THC. And high quality high THC strains can be bought at a pharmacy with a prescription.
A friend rolled a 50%/50% joint, approx 0.5g total, and we proceeded to smoke it whole, just the two of us. I was surprised you could get that high without a shadow of a paranoia.
I never particularly cared for cannabis in general in the past–it didn’t give me panic attacks, but even a little bit made me feel kind of on edge. The 1:1 stuff is dramatically more pleasant.
Maybe it's just getting older? Who knows. I just wish I could get high a couple of times a week so that I sleep more than 2 or 3 hours.
A couple years ago (around 40) I started taking a low dose antidepressant for unrelated reasons and noticed that the weed induced anxiety mostly disappeared. My guess is that for some people there’s a serotonin/anxiety component that THC can amplify, but that’s just speculation on my part.
Not suggesting antidepressants as a solution by themselves. They come with their own tradeoffs and I wouldn’t take them just for that. But it has been a pleasant side effect I didn’t expect.
I feel like that strain is for EXPERTS. You can always mold it to the vibe you are aiming to reach in that present (ofc in the appropriate environments).
Do you feel like the anxiety just the cascaded result of ... "poor planning" over an extended, day-over-day staggering, sleep-deprived, period of time? I consider my self naturally the poorest of poor planners. My brain is just RAM with zero cache that i always imagine that I have. I've had weeks wiz by if I do not get on top of a fun, MJ propagandized base routine / schedule in place.
Apologies! Worse case, this could just be a swing and a miss. Empathies attempted.
Full spectrum hemp (~0%) definitely feels like the answer, here!
Does hemp have the same relaxing qualities?
Terpenes are the secret to cannabis.
Most cannabis has terpenes as a consequence.
Some cannabis has terpenes as a priority. This is the best cannabis.
The “essential oil” of the cannabis plant.
Look for brands with lab tests that include terpene levels, and mycotoxins/solvents, for best results!
Care to explain this? Or what I'm looking for with terpene levels?
My experience buying pot is two things
1. Before it was legal you got whatever bullshit they had.
2. Asking the worker at the dispensary for the lowest possible THC containing strain.
Simply them being on the lab test is a huge green flag for quality/safety.
Most fly-by-night ops and money-grubbers will perform and post the legal minimums (at best).
But fortunately there's a much better solution for those of us who get anxiety from weed, it's called "don't smoke weed".
If you end up smoking high percentage THC with little to no CBD, those who with tactile brains will enter a state of negativity. Anxiety, paranoia et cetera.
Essentially just roll CBD leaf only with your main THC leaf and this should equal the balance but again this is all anecdotal and myself as experiment.
I hate being truly high, but a weed "buzz" is great for falling asleep, especially when ill (I often suffer more from severe lack of sleep than from any of the other effects of whatever common virus or bacterial infection I manage to catch). It doesn't take much for a lightweight (a status I have carefully maintained) to reach "buzz" territory, and only a little more to reach "properly high" territory (which, again, I find rather unpleasant).
I'd suggest edibles and starting at 2mg, max, for a first attempt, working up 1mg at a time (in a totally different session, on another day!) until desired effect achieved. Like I've been at this a while and a 10mg gummy, which is a common single-gummy dose size in many states, will take me past where I ever want to be. 5ish is about right for me, maybe up to 8 if I need a stronger kick for some reason (like, say, I'm sick and need to get high enough to sleep most of the night despite significant sinus discomfort or throat pain)
FWIW I also doubt the anti-Alzheimer's stuff will pan out, or if it does, it'll be some targeted therapy with specific chemicals, which won't look a lot like any products from a dispensary.