After a couple years I’m not seeing my friends regularly, I started to struggle to reincorporate myself into a social world.
After so much isolation, I realized I was very awkward around other people.
I needed to remedy this by getting out a lot more. I was lucky that I still had a few friends from college that were interested in hanging out with me again. That allowed me to slowly ease myself back into stressful social situations again. Eventually I started to feel more comfortable around strangers as well. I made some new friends and even got a few dates too. However, a lot of my social anxiety would come flooding back when I would use cannabis around friends and strangers. What happens to me when I use cannabis around others is that I start to overthink the words that are coming out of my mouth. I get so preoccupied with what I’m saying that I didn’t can’t even spit the words out. Cannabis edibles are even worse from this effect because they take so long to wear off. If I accidentally take too much of a cannabis edible before going to a social event, I could be really messed up throughout the entire experience. It’s a lot easier to dose with a cannabis vaporizer instead. I’ve heard some people say that cannabis edibles are a situation where you buy the ticket and take the ride. With a vaporizer or a joint for instance, you can take more doses as needed. And if you accidentally use too much, it’ll wear off within 2 hours.