Cannabis is supposed to help you chill out, but finding the right dose to induce those calming effects is notoriously difficult.

Just a little too much can send a cannabis user spinning out in the opposite direction.

Recreational users sometimes call this acute anxiety and panic paranoia,

and it's a common complaint from people seeking emergency care for

cannabis-induced intoxication. New research offers some hope for folks who have trouble

finding a relaxing high and it comes from a surprising source.

For science quickly, this is Rachel Feltman.

Scientific Americans Associate News Editor Allison Parcell

is with me to tell us more about these new findings.

So I hear you've got some exciting news for the anxious weed smokers of the world.

What's this new study all about?

If you've ever smoked too much weed or taken one too many THC gummies.

You might be familiar with this side effect

that stoners have long called paranoia,

just like this acute feeling of anxiety and panic,

like the world is just collapsing around you and or everything is bad and

terrible and you kind of just have to ride it out.

It's one of the main things that people complain about when they show up for emergency health

care after having taken too much

cannabis. Sure yeah. It's just kind of gnarly. So basically in the new study they

found that one of the aromatic compounds in weed basically it's just there to

smell nice. It's called D-Limane.

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