I don’t enjoy smoking as much as I used to it started with the dispensary flower . I was super excited to be able to go buy smoke legally. Then my problems started. I started getting terrible anxiety from what I believe was the product they were selling me ,I haven’t fully recovered . I had never gotten anxiety before in my life before consuming dispensary marijuana. I grow my own and the problem isn’t as bad as it was but it still lingers .I’ve decided to grow lower strength smoke with CBD varieties . I’m hoping this helps. Is anyone else or have you experienced these same things ?
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I wonder if you didn’t get some dispensary weed that was harvested too early and/or laced with something?
I hope that using cannabis becomes enjoyable for you in the near future.
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I’ve wondered the same thing what are they putting in the weed at the dispensary. I hear they use synthetic terpenes and I wonder if that has anything to do with it.
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When I first got to a point that my grows were really successful I sold a couple of pounds to a black market guy. He asked if I were okay with him adding terpenes. I told him that I was opposed to that. It was crazy, he sent my buds halfway across the country to Indiana for distribution.
Even black market guys are adding crap to the otherwise clean flower.
That was my only effort to sell. The risk just didn’t work for me.
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Too many added terpenes causes anxiety and can trigger severe headaches, plus it makes the bud harsh to smoke. Weed is best plain, it needs nothing added to make it good except nutes!
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You’re absolutely right
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Yeah I don’t know why they do this s*** .
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It is all a money game and keeps a lot of the younger newish , and ones that do not want to put the time in growing coming back, I tried dispo weed twice and no thanks, I grew up smoking in Jr High ( 82 grad ) there was no dispo weed, we bought from 3 different people, it was not as strong and not domestic, quit smoking for 20+ yrs, started growing and smoke 1-2 times a week now still on the hunt for the past and dispo’s are not it 
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I hear you I hope the past can be found . I do best if I stick to the weekend.
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Grow and smoke your own, @Donk
I started growing decades before I could smoke (okay, the occasional poof).
My Missus suffered from anxiety (Desert Storm vet), and her weed was just what she could get from friends, none of them actually grew it).
Her daily now is Northern Lights, but that does vary.
Pick strains that might help and grow them. Take notes.
At the risk of sounding like an old hippie, there’s a special kind of peace and harmony in growing your own medicine.
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This.
I actually worked for a commercial grower in Oregon for a bit (will not name names).
They grew flower, sold little. It was all about the concentrates.
They were testing sati dom plants, but had decided against them for financial reasons.
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Synthetic terpenes should not exist. That’s disturbing and disgusting.
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Right on .. I am growing some lower THC CBD heavy varieties
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I get extreme anxiety as well. It seems to increase if I don’t smoke. I just attribute it to age. 53 It helps me to take breaks as well. When the anxiety hits if im stoned its kinda paralyzing for a minute. I have a ton of new things going on in life as well. I just try to stay engaged. That helps. Do meaningful things.
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It is and they have a lot of unknown risks and aren’t regulated
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I hear ya .. when the anxiety hits I feel like I’m gonna die. I try to stay busy . It’s debilitating, I’m really hoping these new varieties will help
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Agreed , this is why we do what we do . I would gladly give it all up for nice weed , which aint happening . Most medical in Australia comes from Canada and or Africa of all places . They have to nuke it with cobalt60 to kill mold spores and bacteria . This in turn destroys all the terpenes and leaves the flower smelling of chemicals (supposedly thats the inactive mold) . I was putting 62% humidifiers in the containers until I found it was reviving some of the apparently dead mold . I only just found out you can ask for domestic weed . Breeding for thc only was the biggest mistake anyone ever made with weed . Now mugs like me have to take the hollywood good looks and cross with a 20 odd year old (actually 24 or 25) skunk hybrid . Things are looking ok so far . That feeling of relaxation that passes over you is missing in almost every strain . I found one and they swapped it out for imported rubbish . Rant complete hehe . Peace .
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“Breeding for thc only was the biggest mistake anyone ever made”
Yes bingo excatly that
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G’day Sausage , are you familiar with the Desiderata ? You can print a copy off the net and stick it up somewhere you’ll be able to read it every day . Helped me , maybe it can do the same to help you focus . Peace brother .
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Wiser words were never spoken man . Peace .
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