Anxiety & Marijuana

nicki · Silver Member Joined: 09 Mar 2000 Posts: 251

Hi, I started to experience attacks of anxiety and panic, since I‘m using marijuana. I’m getting worried, since it hasn’t happened before. Is there any real connection between anxiety and marijuana?

peele · Newbie Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 12

Hi, I also had that problem and even now sometimes if I exaggerate with cannabis, hashish, marijuana, or however you call it. Marijuana can produce paranoia, because it has the ability to change your brain's perception of the world. Any substance that influences your behavior is harmful to some degree, so are caffeine, nicotine, alcohol and drugs. Still, it’s important to know that it is not permanent change and harm. Cannabis alters the way in which your brain functions, by reseting the 'normal' anxiety level at a much higher level. When concentration of certain ingredients falls down behaviour comes back to normal.

Guest · Guest

I've smoked weed heavily on and off for nearly a year now, and all it ever does is make me feel great. I can recall some slight paranoia, but nothing like serious anxiety...

And also, these 'negative' effects of marijuana only exist while you are high, once its worn off you will feel pretty much normal, perhaps a slight tired feeling.

Basically, with weed, its all positive effects with very little negative (none at all in my experience). So keep smoking it, its harmless.

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So you have started expiernceing panic attacks when useing Cannabicea,
that is not abnormal, i am a expeirnced Cannabis user i am only 18 but have used this herb for about 6 years in total, but anyways back to your qoustion why am i getting an anxiety attack from some thing that is sappased to mello me out?

ANSWER:

Cannabis is a herb yes and often is grown in artaficail envioroments and thus has to to be spread with varous pestacides. But what also can contribute to this feeling is that you are eathier sacherating you system with this herb, no this is not documented and i don't expext you to find any evadence of this but useing mary jane all the time in can lead to massive heart murmers and feeling of extream intensity, sweating, heart beat skipping,Left arm getting num, brain pattern is speedyer,

that is what they call anaflectic shock it may seem like this is a bunch of Bogas Bowl, but it's not i had to get rushed in to the hospital two years ago on account that i made some brownies and decided that it would be a good day to indulge and i did i felt fine but after three hours they kicked in completly my heart raced i tryied to calm down but instead i freaked and callapsed and woke up in abulance with heart equipment connected to my chest, my heart was going 189 and rising they had to give me 35 CC valum and then have me hooked in to a IV to give my body a constant flow of water, they did a toxicity screen to check for Methamphetamine and cociane and MDMA but they find nothing of that nature just Sativa and indica, they told me that i would never Blow another reef again but i showed them inspite of me not feeling so hot when i toke i insisted and kept trying eventually i stopped for about two years then what i thought was going to be the unthinkable happened i wnet to a party and got really slammed and toked but i didn't get anxic i was mello and hapy no sweats no heart mumers nothing just good old fashioned THC,

So you should serously consider a break from pot for a while,
Much love one 07 Captain cannabis

laur4321 · Newbie Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 2

I used to smoke pot a significant amount, nothing extreme... sometimes id smoke everyday.. sometimes i wouldnt.. it would be like that on and off for about 2.5 years. i noticed though that i was quite spacier and stupid and lost a lot of concentration that i used to have. i guess that is expected from using to much marijuana. but i recently have experienced a series of cycles of depression and anxiety. whether the cause of such anxiety disorders was caused by the pot or not, i can no longer smoke pot without having these crazy terrible thoughts. i get anxious to the point where i pretty much cant stop telling myself to commit suicide. in most medical cases anxiety and depression truely surfaces from ages 18-24. i am almost 20 now and can say that so far that seems true. i went to a bunch of drs to deal with my issues and many of them explained that people with anxiety disorder or depression or bipolar etc. typically start to experience panick attacks and such when they are stoned. if you get paranoid every now and then that is probably normal. but if u smoke a lot and cant stop the negative feelings and such... you may have anxiety disorder or something to that degree. also try and think about your life when you are not high... are you typically sad/careless about decisions?/loss of interest in old hobbies/feelings of wanting to be alone? if you do feel like this sober than there is a big chance you have a disorder that can be solved with some zoloft or other pills. my anxiety is so bad that i had to take klonopin and actually wasnt nervous when i smoked pot after taking that med. but i probably should stay away from alcohol and pot for now so i can try and get better. hope this helps people realize something about themselves ... i could be saving your life and you dont even know it

Guest · Guest

i have been diganosed with bi-polar satge II and am hypo-manic. I have about 3-10 anxity attacks a day and have been taking xanax for a while now. I have recently been trying to wheen myself off the xanax (due to the fact that it's horribly accidcting) and have been replacing it with cannabis indica. I have found that the sativa has a more of a speedy high with more paronia and trippiness. However, the cannabis indica variety seems to be real relaxing and has a more sleepy or coutchlock effect that seems to work really well to help my anxity. Weed works!! Legalize it!!!

Quantum · Newbie Joined: 23 Jul 2007 Posts: 5

While I agree that weed for some people can change their life for the better. I would hate to see it legalized freely as there would be a large increase in car accidents and young people being addicted. Pot can easily ruin your life as it almost did mine. However, your research about the indica/savita issue is correct. You sound like a perfect person for medical marijuana. It's good that you realized and found this out and that it helps you. But, keep in mind that it can be very addicting and extremely difficult to cut back if decide to change your amounts.

Also, I would think that Xanax is not the best choice for you panic attacks. The addiction is very high for Xanix it as it has a very short life. There are many other benzo's and I would look at that have slower release times. Xanix is very addicting and I thought it was more for short term stress.
Good luck.

worriedgirl13 · Newbie Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 9

I have a question about pot...I haven't smoked it a whole lot but I have a few times...like maybe 20 times my whole life...all this year... and I was wondering... can it be causing me anxiety now, even though I haven't smoked any in almost a month??? Because just these past couple of weeks have been horrible for me with my anxiety...I've always had anxiety but NEVER this bad before. I'm paranoid & worried about every little thing...I'm scared that I'm dying or something!!!
BTW I'm NEVER smoking it again. I only tried it in the first place cause somebody told me it helped anxiety(which in small doses I found that it did help me be a bit more talkative & relaxed --but in large doses it is BAD). But I'm going to get REAL help for my anxiety, from a doctor...with anxiety medication.

Cody Pringle · Newbie Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 1

I have smoked bud for about six years i am 16 years old and i a have a big problem. I have smoked marijuana and was just fine for all these years exept this past month. I got off work and i smoked a blunt. After about 45 min. I started to feel very weird , my hert beat raced and i collapesd . My whole body started tingeling first it was my left arm. i had to go straight to the emergency room. I have the feeling of that problem coming on all the time aconstantly when im sober . but when i have smoked bud it triiggers really bad i need to know if it is an anxiety disorder or if it is just the bud.

contax · Newbie Joined: 08 Oct 2007 Posts: 4

Hey,
This site is awesome, I feel connected to yall!
My feelings are this
- I want to smoke weed, but everytime I do I get too panicky
- I read that the chances of getting a heart attack are incresed 5 times in the first hour of smoking - uh oh paranoid of that thought - now I'll never smoke again - but I want to ...hmmmm search for new evidence oh yes here...that study was not on point...another doctor talked to that one and they both agreed its shaky, regardless...a major study was done a few years back with tens of thousands of more people and showed no link between death and weed...so heart attacks wouldnt even be a probelm
- I miss when I was 16-21 smoking weed, feeling high relaxed, now I can't achive that high
- oh well I am now in a 4 year relationship with an amazing and beautiful girl who hates weed and alchohol and has improved me, I'm loved up - looking at all my friends who smoke weed - they haven't had girls for over 5 years, so why do I want to smoke weed if thats not what I want
- yes, socially I feel like I'm missing out tempted to smoke again even though its on and off reactions....but you know what Im thinking?
Those people arn't really fun untill their on something

I'm in between wanting to smoke and saying---screw it..link pain to it
like screw it, Not even...I have nothing against weed smokers..I used to be all for it and yes sometimes I wish I can go back, but Im in a dilema...basically I'm deciding not to go back...looking at my life off weed...I got into a relationship thats fulfilling, moved out on my own, going for my goals, I'm healthy, energetic life is good!

Anyhow all you people are great and I feel connected to you...have an excellent day!

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