Weed definitely does the opposite for me. I get inside my head and overthink what I’m about to say and eventually realize the topic has changed and do it all over again.
Alcohol makes me the most outgoing person on the planet.
I learned a while ago that there are two types of people.
Some people can think inside their own head, and hear themselves think. They aren’t “hearing voices”. They ARE the voice. So they might see some guy on the bus stand up stick his ass in an elderly womans face, and start violently shitting on her. The person seeing this might in their own head say “WHAT A FUCKING ASSHOLE!!!” but people around them would have no knowledge of him calling that guy an asshole.
Meanwhile, the other type of people are completely unable to hear themselves inside their own head. So every thought they have comes verbally out of their mouth. They still think about things, and they still do all the other things the first type of people do, except it’s all verbal. You hear their thoughts as they have them.
I’m the first type of person, but when I smoke weed two things happen.
Number 1, I become the second type of person.
And number 2, my ability to finish my thoughts, vanishes. Instead I start one train of thought, realize halfway through it’s stupid, and then switch to a completely different unrelated train of thought which makes no sense with the first half.
And all of this is happening verbally, and from my perspective in slow motion with distorted reality.
The end result is people who know me as quiet and usually pretty responsible, and smart will blurt out something like:
We should go on a boat, and buy a dinosaur to bring to the afterparty!"
Everyone just looks at me like “Now did you mean for those words to fall out of your mouth in that order? Or are you just as surprised as the rest of us?”
I completely agree, though I will add that when I was a chronic smoker in my teens / early 20s weed was totally a social lubricant. Now it just heightens my anxiety lol
Living in a state where it’s legal, it’s kinda awesome how the paranoia went away. Took a while, and age may also play a part, but like no one cares anymore here as long as you’re not being a moron about it. Being able to just walk into a shop and buy it like any other product also helps with that. Removes the stigma to hide it, and therefore the reason to be paranoid that “someone knows!”.
Also the fact that you can be walking down the street and the whole “I smell weed! It smells like a good strain!” changes from a panic/Is it me? thing to a “ooo what a wonderful smell this lovely morning” thing when you’re in a legal area
There is very much something to what you are saying. I’m a pretty self conscious person. Using marijuana while it was illegal and not exactly known as a medicinal substance caused a very different feeling/reality than now. Not having to hide anymore has allowed me to feel freer. Unfortunately, multiple members of my family haven’t progressed their thoughts on marijuana since taking their stances decades ago. That part still presents challenges for me. I am actually kind of resentful, for the whole ordeal. I find I use marijuana with better care and more knowledge now, where before I was made to work in the dark.
Weed definitely does the opposite for me. I get inside my head and overthink what I’m about to say and eventually realize the topic has changed and do it all over again.
Alcohol makes me the most outgoing person on the planet.
I learned a while ago that there are two types of people.
Some people can think inside their own head, and hear themselves think. They aren’t “hearing voices”. They ARE the voice. So they might see some guy on the bus stand up stick his ass in an elderly womans face, and start violently shitting on her. The person seeing this might in their own head say “WHAT A FUCKING ASSHOLE!!!” but people around them would have no knowledge of him calling that guy an asshole.
Meanwhile, the other type of people are completely unable to hear themselves inside their own head. So every thought they have comes verbally out of their mouth. They still think about things, and they still do all the other things the first type of people do, except it’s all verbal. You hear their thoughts as they have them.
I’m the first type of person, but when I smoke weed two things happen.
Number 1, I become the second type of person.
And number 2, my ability to finish my thoughts, vanishes. Instead I start one train of thought, realize halfway through it’s stupid, and then switch to a completely different unrelated train of thought which makes no sense with the first half.
And all of this is happening verbally, and from my perspective in slow motion with distorted reality.
The end result is people who know me as quiet and usually pretty responsible, and smart will blurt out something like:
Everyone just looks at me like “Now did you mean for those words to fall out of your mouth in that order? Or are you just as surprised as the rest of us?”
Oh yeah. You DEFINITELY need to come over and smoke a cone with me.
I completely agree, though I will add that when I was a chronic smoker in my teens / early 20s weed was totally a social lubricant. Now it just heightens my anxiety lol
Here’s the thing- if you smoke every day or near every day, most of the anxiety goes away. It’s weird like that.
Living in a state where it’s legal, it’s kinda awesome how the paranoia went away. Took a while, and age may also play a part, but like no one cares anymore here as long as you’re not being a moron about it. Being able to just walk into a shop and buy it like any other product also helps with that. Removes the stigma to hide it, and therefore the reason to be paranoid that “someone knows!”.
Also the fact that you can be walking down the street and the whole “I smell weed! It smells like a good strain!” changes from a panic/Is it me? thing to a “ooo what a wonderful smell this lovely morning” thing when you’re in a legal area
There is very much something to what you are saying. I’m a pretty self conscious person. Using marijuana while it was illegal and not exactly known as a medicinal substance caused a very different feeling/reality than now. Not having to hide anymore has allowed me to feel freer. Unfortunately, multiple members of my family haven’t progressed their thoughts on marijuana since taking their stances decades ago. That part still presents challenges for me. I am actually kind of resentful, for the whole ordeal. I find I use marijuana with better care and more knowledge now, where before I was made to work in the dark.
Not all strands of weed cause anxiety in people. My co worker looked it up a while ago, i forget what it was that caused it.