Just my personal anecdote: I’ve had moderate anxiety since I was a kid. When I was around 16, I tried weed for the first time and it made my anxiety far worse (

Just my personal anecdote: I’ve had moderate anxiety since I was a kid. When I was around 16, I tried weed for the first time and it made my anxiety far worse (in fact I had a pretty bad panic attack). Being a stupid teen susceptible to peer pressure, I tried it a few more times in my late teens and early twenties and had an extremely bad experience each time. Pretty much the same thing happened to my son, but worse. He actually used it to try to reduce his anxiety, and it did work at first, but eventually it made him worse and he had to go on anxiolytics.