Is it normal to get anxious when smoking weed?

This happens to SO many stoners. It happened to me, and I had to stop smoking for almost a year because I would get so paranoid every time I got high. I recently started up again and I feel just as relaxed as I did when I was more of a novice smoker.

Theres a reason why you're feeling uncomfortable and paranoid. It's not the weed, its you. It's whats in your head. Figure out whats really troubling you and fix it.

Anxiety when smoking cannabis is EXTREMELY common, particularly when it's done illicitly. Set and setting is a -huge- part of this. I would investigate that well before considering my own neurochemistry.

For example, do your parents forbid you smoking cannabis? Would they freak out if they found out? Is there some other authority figure leaning over your shoulder and making you nervous about getting caught? This doesn't have to be a realistic threat -- it's about what's going on in your mind, not what's going on in reality.

Basically, cannabis and psychedelics both tend to be enhancers of experience, whatever that happens to be... thus making good experiences better, and bad experiences worse. So the solution, therefore, is to figure out whether this anxiety problem happens ONLY when you smoke in situations where you're already uncomfortable about something, even if only to a tiny degree. If it happens even when you're totally content and there's no possibility whatsoever that you were already anxious or unhappy or uncomfortable (even without being aware of it) then maybe there's a chemistry problem going on.

Also, since Valium is an anti-anxiety agent, it certainly would have eliminated any chemical issues going on when you were taking it. Now that you aren't taking it, you're experiencing what it previously covered up. I doubt it did any actual "damage".

yes its normal for weed to make you anxious, it has happened to me at times

That sounds exactly like what happened to me . I dont think your brains off or anything I think the/uncomfortableness/ is just because you started smoking at such a young age. All of my friends that started around 18 still enjoy it just the same.

Yep yep. To be expected at some point.
It happens to me as well, I wanna quit, but I don't wanna quit.

Don't think your recreational drug use in your past has in any way altered your brain! Anxiety is common like others have said when you smoke. If you quit then start up again you can get anxious. I smoke damn near everyday and it's safe to say I can still get paranoid but not like when I first started smokin. Eventually you just learn to handle it. Next time you get high and start feeling any kind of uncomfortable feelings, anxiety or paranoia just accept your high and target the reason behind these feelings. Leave the room you are in if you have to but remember you're always in control. Smoking Mary Jane is supposed to be a fun and relaxing experience!

It's good to hear from others, regarding the subject. I've been thinking about it for quite a while now.

Athiest- I've been smoking here and there recently with mostly great results.

I think it all has to do with how your attitude going into it... .

I still feel physically uncomfortable in my own skin from time to time though, which I can only forget by keepng my mind busy. Seems weird...

Yeah, the mushrooms and acid that I did in the past must have affected my nerves or something.

Dude try meth it's much better