Phenibut is basically a drug that’s used to help with anxiety, and it’s been used like weed recreationally too in order to help with the euphoria that you have. There is actual research on weed and the body, but phenibut doesn’t have nearly as much. Some people have mentioned that mixing them does make you feel better, but there are some parts of the medical community that advise against the mixture of this, since there is nowhere near enough information. 

What Phenibut Is 

Phenibut is basically a drug that was created during the 1960s in the soviet union.  This was used in Russia as a type of medication. However, when it spread out to Hungary and Austria, this was considered a controlled substance, but in the rest of the world, this isn’t nearly as defined. 

The thing with phenibut, is that while there are supposed health benefits to this, there are no studies that say that you will get treated with this. In fact, the FDA doesn’t even approve of this as a supplement.  There isn’t much approval throughout the FDA, but you can buy this online as a type of supplement to help with nutrition. 

It’s considered a nootropic drug, which is basically a smart drug, or also known as a cognitive enhancer.  This means that it works to help with reducing the way the CNS works, and also works to help with reducing anxiety.

It’s since been used for a lot of different things, especially throughout eastern Europe as well, for different conditions including: 

• Depression 
• Stress and anxiety 
• Insomnia 
• PTSD 

This drug is known as a wonder drug, since it may make you feel good, but phenibut does not work that way. However, some people have mentioned they’re able to learn better, have better concentration and memory, and it boosts social skills, relieving the instances of social anxiety in the person.

It does create an antagonist to GABA, raising this, and it can help with reducing anxiety through making your GABA receptors work more. 

The benefits and Drawbacks 

There are some benefits and drawbacks that we can extrapolate from mixing these two together. The benefits include that they do work similarly on the ECS and the GABA receptors within this. Cannabis also does interact with these receptors. 

There is some preclinical research that did look at agonists of the CB receptors in the body, and drugs that improve GABA, so they do overlap each other. That does mean that it can possibly help. Some people on reddit have also said that they feel happier too, but of course that is reddit, and not a scientific body of knowledge.  

The risks mostly come from the fact that we don’t know much about it.

Some of the risks do include: 

• Nausea 
• Dizziness 
• Headaches 
• Fatigue 
• Stomach issues 
• Higher blood pressure 

This has been seen when people mix the two together. Another thing is that when you mix these in higher doses with something else, this can be potentially dangerous.  There is also the fact that, if you do recreationally combine these two together, it can impact how much you need to get similar effects and create a risk for creating a substance use disorder in someone.

Overall, if you have to use one or the other, you may want to talk to your doctor to see if it’s viable.  You should also be mindful of the potential risks that this can cause, and issues that do get exacerbated whenever you’re interested in using this substance too.