imsureyoumeantwell

I'm all for a person's right to explore cannabis as both a medication and for recreation. I'm actually considering exploring some CBD tinctures for unexplained back pain I've been having after about a year of not smoking or ingesting cannabis.

But I do have a question. Why is it that any time someone, especially any sort of health professional, expresses a view that does not completely advocate cannabis use there is always a cannabis advocate that seems to take offense, calling "bullshit" and claiming how surprised people would be if they knew things that are obvious to them?

It's not like she said everyone who tries pot is a lethargic addicted asshole. It was just a perspective you don't agree with.

And now, at least in my perspective, the person I wanted to agree with, the cannabis advocate, in this case sounds rather defensive to be honest.

I guess this depends a lot on what your job is. I don't care what your tolerance is or how much you think it helps, I'd rather my safety not be reliant on the focus of someone who feels at liberty to be stoned on the job.

The question was "What are your thoughts on cannabis?" Her answer is that she doesn't personally recommend it. This was supported by her sharing her professional perspective based on interactions with people in her experience.

So are you saying that she falsified her own thoughts on the matter?

Or that her thoughts are based on false memories of her own experiences?

Where is the false information here?

I have a job that requires me to approach people in a retail environment and basically find people interested in improving their homes with PV solar panels.

This gets to being difficult for a couple reasons, the first being that I've spent the greater part of my life with rather debilitating social anxiety.

I've improved to the point of being fairly comfortable in most social interactions, but approaching a lot of people in a sort of "cold call" scenario still gets to being so difficult that I'll sometimes spend entire days without ever reaching that comfort level where I can interact as myself and not feel like my brain and body are being flooded with stress hormones.

My biggest difficulty is that initial coming out of my shell and feeling a like an accepted part of the environment around me.

Do you have any tips that might help improve my ability to function in a confident, outgoing manner, even in the face of some people being rather opinionated or even sometimes just jerks about the product Im offering? Which is something I genuinely believe makes a difference in people's lives as well as for the planet and economy.

There is no comment that begins with cannabis causing anxiety in this thread other than the one you are replying to.