I have been smoking for some ten years, and a few years back i started becoming afraid of getting high. It's no help that my country is ridiculously behind the

I have been smoking for some ten years, and a few years back i started becoming afraid of getting high. It's no help that my country is ridiculously behind the times - you can get up to eight years in prison just for having cannabis on you, regardless of amount (and hey, we're in the EU, who would have thought!) - but the thing is that it really becomes very easy to go on a very unpleasant tangent, start overthinking, overanalysing, worrying and finally panicking about things - and my "panic pony" is my job. Once I start thinking about it, it's almost always a guarantee of a bad experience. So I started getting "afraid of getting afraid", and significantly cut down my cannabis use to, well, near zero: I still use it socially maybe once a year or two. However, even though I am a very occasional user, I found that anxiolytics such as xanax in small doses offset the paranoia pretty well. Also, edibles are much more mellow in my experience - you are not just "thrown" into the state, but rather edged into it, and it gives you better control. oh and also, as with all psychedelics - set and setting are very, very, very important. well that's my story.