For every weed smoker who wants to get as high as possible, there’s someone else who has a light-duty panic attack—or maybe a heavy-duty panic attack—whenever they try cannabis. Most of these people eventually just decide they’re “not a pot person.” They want to relax, and even the strains that are said to be relaxing don’t help them relax. Many of these people wholeheartedly support the legalization of marijuana, but they aren’t getting to enjoy its benefits.
I’m one of them, and it sucks.
While I used to love pot, and want to love pot again, it hasn’t been easy to do. Ninety percent of the time, I get super high, much higher than I would like, and it is a terrifying experience for me. Instead of enhancing life, it sends my mind spinning into a tornado of anxiety and paranoia. Recreational budtenders will tell you that sativas are the high-energy strain of weed, giving you a “head high” that’s perfect for daytime, and indicas are the relaxing strain of weed, giving you a “body high” and preparing you for sleep, and but even trying a range of indicas didn’t work for me. They made my heart pound and my mind race. Since there are now so many varieties of legal weed available, I’ve been looking for a way to fit pot back into my life, but I kept failing to find anything anywhere near calm enough for me…