Hi everyone.
I'm wondering about strains that are good in social settings for people that are shy.
They don't have to be overly potent, but anything that is suitable to pull out at a party.
Not something that will have everyone sitting on the couch, or a coldblooded type that is introspective.
Just strains that are good in social settings for talking and having a bit of a laugh.
First off I think it’s important to define social anxiety and what it is; for me, it tends to manifest itself in my inability to feel ok around large groups of people, especially those I don’t know personally... it also manifests itself as my inability to have a good poker face... if I’m too high on certain strains this always happens and I come off awkward when I can’t look people in the eye for long periods while I speak or start shutting my eyes to try and make the eye shutting sleepiness syndrome stop while someone is talking to me.
Seriously Introspective sativas are even worse, as I just come off as a sullen and depressed loner, or that I think I’m too good for these people(not the case).
Using weed for this can be a double edged sword in that a lot of strains specifically give people anxiety as they get older, and that only exacerbates the problem.
For me atleast, I think I’m looking for a hybrid on sativa side, that sparks creativity and the want to talk, but also has a bit of stupification to it that causes you to not worry so much and forget your social anxiety and makes it easier to be yourself openly with new people.... it’s almost like I’m after a strain that is similar to mdma in its effects(albeit at a much lower potency).
I also will say that the closest I’ve gotten to the above is when I dab live resin or shatter vs flower, & when I say dab I mean a fat dab from a dab rig, not a vape pen. After years of taking dabs daily, and limiting my flower usage to less that 15 times a year, I can say that for me, no matter the % of sativa influence, flower in general vs it’s essential oil counterpart tends to have a sedating couchlock effect from the actual burning vegetable matter smoke being mixed into the essential oil smoke ur inhaling when you smoke flower. It tends to make me tired and the only way I can see getting high enough to forget your anxiety while still being there enough to carry on a conversation with someone new.
To each their own tho.
The closest I’ve come to this is some wax I got from DJ short personally of both vanilluna, cocoa kush, and f13, all of which have his flo strain in it to varying degrees. And for those of you who didn’t know, flo has anti anxiety phenos popping up at certain percentages.... apparently blue heaven was his holy grail for anti anxiety as each pheno was an anti anxiety pheno...
more recently I got a leeroyOG(RareDankness)XFireOG shatter that was getting me very close to that place.
I’ve had some Nevs Haze shatter that was amazing, but it was more introspective, which I think comes from the Thai it leans towards... sorta a take your breath away type high.
I’ll be watching this thread.