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I don't get how this is a thing for Americans. How are you not destroyed by anxiety and paranoia if you go get stoned before having dinner with all your relatives?
I imagine, sometimes, its the only way to cope with them. some people get paranoid, some do not. setting and grounding play important roles in this.
It also helps to not be the only one who is high.
I used to be paranoid and anxious...
But then I got high.
Ooohh ooohh
Was gonna head right out the door
But then I got high.
I use cannabis daily for several years. You get used to being in public high and it becomes less scary and panic inducing.
When I visit my family I must be fried. I can go on several week long vacations without cannabis but the moment my family is near I must be fried for my own remaining sanity.
For the most part, everyone knows what happens on "the walk" nowadays.
My cousins and i go on a walk because we dont want our younger sibling/cousins/nieces/newphews to see.
Three years ago I got high with my 18 year old nephew at Thanksgiving at my place. We were sitting on the porch, family in the next room. Didn't think at the time I was sitting back to back basically with his grandma.
We came back in and she says oh was that some "good shit" or not?
The anxiety and paranoia of being around my family is astronomically worse if I’m not blitzed
Depends on the vibe. If them finding out is game over then yeah full anxiety.
If it’s one of those things that they can tell but look the other way… then it’s just good family time!
I can speak to this (Canadian, we have Thanksgiving in October, i get high because parts of my family are hard right Conservatives): If I get stoned for dinner (after preparing dinner), I don't feel like shit when people rag on the food or bring up trash political takes. Being high makes me calmer.
Also I don't care if people know I'm high, so that helps.
If I do stay sober, I have to hear how minorities are ruining the country and be accused of poisoning people by not making a healthy meal... which makes me anxious.
Do you worry that the weed impairs your ability to produce effective counterarguments? Drag wouldn't want to go into a situation like that without being on drag's A game. Thanksgiving can be one of your few chances each year to argue with your relatives, so drag tries very hard to avoid wasting it.