I can tell you from experience that it is exactly that. It depends quite a bit on the variety and dose but overall, this is how it feels.
When you take it, everything is great, the next day there is the leftover that makes it a "chill" day but then it slowly goes away and anxiety comes back stronger the following days. At 3-4 days you deal with withdrawal a bit depending on how much you consumed which may increase anxiety or not depending on factors (experience, current situation, etc). I would say you get back to baseline after about 5 days to a week, which is quite long!
Cannabis probably doesn't cause anxiety on its own, but definitely do not really help the case for anxious people, in the long term. Unless you want to consider being "high" every day and for quite long.
So, using cannabis to treat anxiety is a pretty bad idea but from my point of the view the biggest problem is the cognitive performance penalty you get from using cannabis and the problem is largely compounded by the fact that you do not feel that way at all when you are under influence or after (up to 2 full days after in my experience).
Yet I can attest that the impact is very real, and it is quite easy to demonstrate if you have high level activities where you can collect stats (video games are great for that).
Cannabis and anxiety definitely have a relation, but it is really not the principal concern to have. I wish it would be legal everywhere so people could talk about it openly...
When you take it, everything is great, the next day there is the leftover that makes it a "chill" day but then it slowly goes away and anxiety comes back stronger the following days. At 3-4 days you deal with withdrawal a bit depending on how much you consumed which may increase anxiety or not depending on factors (experience, current situation, etc). I would say you get back to baseline after about 5 days to a week, which is quite long!
Cannabis probably doesn't cause anxiety on its own, but definitely do not really help the case for anxious people, in the long term. Unless you want to consider being "high" every day and for quite long. So, using cannabis to treat anxiety is a pretty bad idea but from my point of the view the biggest problem is the cognitive performance penalty you get from using cannabis and the problem is largely compounded by the fact that you do not feel that way at all when you are under influence or after (up to 2 full days after in my experience). Yet I can attest that the impact is very real, and it is quite easy to demonstrate if you have high level activities where you can collect stats (video games are great for that).
Cannabis and anxiety definitely have a relation, but it is really not the principal concern to have. I wish it would be legal everywhere so people could talk about it openly...