You probably need to try a strain with less THC and more CBD (like a 2:8 ratio).

Yes nowadays I smoke mixed CBD-only and THC-only strains this way I can make custom ratios. Weed's been orders of magnitude more comfortable since I started doing this.

Another data point: I have anxiety and weed/hash reduce my anxiety, it helps a lot with falling asleep while I'm awake but I'm known to scream while sleeping under the influence; another time I was sound asleep near a friend who was snoring and his snoring woke me up and I was convinced he was in fact drowning in his own vomit and I slapped and shook him and tried to get him on his side, after I realized he was fine, I happily went back to sleep as if nothing happened.

I also had visual hallucinations, visual/auditory synesthesia once from a high dosage of hash, so I might be an outlier.

What kind of made up anxiety have you encountered? I ask just to understand. I've never run into an anxiety after smoking weed that wasn't rooted in reality. I find it helpful for the same reasons the previous poster stated.

Like one time I accidentally dosed my weed wrong. I prepared a bowl with super-high THC strain (I live in a legal state) when I was trying to smoke a 1:1 THC:CBD strain (I wasn't trying to get high, I was trying to medicate against my chronic inflammation problem). I vaped the entire bowl. Continued to watch Portlandia and 30 seconds in, I realized something is wrong and I can barely keep my eyes open. After managing the initial disorientation, I got up to take a shower because my heart was beating at 150 bpm so I wanted to distract myself. When I got up I heard someone talking outside. It sounded like it's my coworker's sound. I got worried for some reason. I was worried that my coworker would see me high and think I'm a "loser stoner" getting high alone. Of course it was just my neighbor talking on his phone outside. Anyway, I never felt like this before or ever since. This was a unique paranoid experience I felt at that moment.

That the airplanes constantly flying over your home, which you can hear but not see, are actually missiles being lobbed across the world as countries that are not your own duke it out.

Not completely rooted in reality, and you’ll probably calm down as you come down. But now you feel a brief stab of anxiety any time you hear an airplane fly overhead.

For me it's just the feeling of anxiety, no specific anxiety inducing subject is running through my head and no paranoia. When I eat edibles (which I do rarely and almost always regret it) the anxiety is worse, I get really cold and my whole body shakes.

I stick to small amounts of vaped weed and I can enjoy it