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Like other reviewers have said, found to be a good medicinal strain for anxiety, stress, mood and depression, well tolerated in people sensitive to Sativa strains and THC. The high is a smooth cerebral high which leaves you uplifted contented but fully functional with no racing thoughts, deep introspection or paranoia type feelings. Just a positive mood, care-free, and natural get-up-and-go energy boost that motivates you to go out and do something. The initial high slowly gives way after 2-3 hrs to a relaxed body feeling with some decent pain-relief. Usually suffer with insomnia if too stimulated, but even after smoking 2 hours before bed slept soundly on this strain. Had vivid but pleasant dreams too and woke up feeling refreshed. If you're looking at this for social anxiety or anxiety disorders in general it's worth a try. I have severe social anxiety and it reduced it by about 50% and 2-3 hits was equal to 0.5mg Xanax in effect so pretty impressive. I don't have any other strains for anxiety to compare to, but all in all I would recommend it for the gentle high and well-balanced feeling, it's like natures instant anti-depressant and anti-anxiety drug in one!

I just hold of some Otto #1 from a reliable vendor (grown in USA) which I wanted to try for anxiety. The flower buds look and smell fairly unremarkable. Small standard looking green buds with no crystals, and just a few orange bits. Hardly any smell. Even when smoking. This may be a benefit to some, but not really an issue if you vape anyway. This batch I had was a purely legal medicinal strain. Grown for very high CBD and very low THC (within the EU/UK legal limit of below 0.2%). There is absolutely no high, body buzz or euphoria from this strain. Totally not recreational. I tried vaping and smoking this flower bud and found smoking better. Normally I don't like smoking as I find it hard on my lungs, but Otto #1 is a super smooth smoke. I wasn't expecting much but was pleasantly surprised at how effective this strain is not just for mental relaxation (without making you feel sedated or drowsy) and anxiety, but also mental focus and another useful medical benefit. The only way I can describe the relaxation effect is like taking a low dose of Xanax. All worrying thoughts and chaotic thinking disappears leaving a very grounded and clear headed state of mind. It feels completely natural. Like me on a good day after a restful nights sleep and some good quality meditation. Now for the other effects... Mental focus. If you suffer from attention deficit disorder or have problems focusing on tasks this strain is great for that. I found myself having a very productive day and able to focus for many hours on work tasks with my thinking very clear and ideas coming easy. Interestingly, for me this strain also seems to alleviate completely rebound anxiety between Xanax doses and also alcohol cravings. I have read it's sometimes used for managing alcohol and benzo withdrawal. I definitely think it will help anyone experiencing withdrawals. The complete abating of my physical and mental anxiety feelings between doses benzo lasted a good 6-7 hours. I didn't experience any significant pain-relief from this strain and overall I would describe the effects as more orientated towards mental relaxation and mental focus, with some anxiety relief. As I suffer with chronic social anxiety I decided to have a second smoke and see if it would help with that if I went to the shops. Unfortunately it did not help much there and I still felt anxious, but the anxiety relief I got indoors was pretty impressive none the less, better than any other natural remedy I've tried. Nothing can usually stop my rebound anxiety I get every 6-8 hours between Xanax doses, or my urge to have a drink if I'm facing any kind of social situation. Summary: Although this strain clearly has some medical benefits for some anxiety sufferers, i.e. mild anxiety or anxiety related to benzo dependency or alcohol withdrawal, it may not help with chronic anxiety conditions such as social anxiety. I'd have liked a little bit more potency and ideally some pain-relief. The mental focus and clear headed effect were unexpected benefits and impressive though could probably be achieved with regular meditation practice. At £10/gram it's rather expensive for what it offers. I think there's surely better medicinal strains out there for chronic social anxiety. Maybe ACDC or Blue Dream. .