With our Lovely Plant Merry-Juana getting legalized both for medical and recreational purposes in more and more places throughout the planet, one cannot help but wonder what the effects of Marijuana are on the human brain and the body. We will explore both the positive and the negative effects in order for our fellow readers to make more informed decisions about what the future entails when it comes to Marijuana and Humanity.
What seems to be so special about this plant that makes actual people want to protest and fight for its legalization and upon which a whole industry is being built right as we speak?
Positive Effects Of Marijuana
1) It Gets You High
This is undoubtedly the main reason why people try out marijuana in the first place. It gets you high, when you consume marijuana, receptors which are responsible for pleasure such as when we consume some delicious food or when we are getting it on with our loved one. What’s even more amazing? Is that each strain has capabilities which produce totally different highs.
There are some strains which produce a sleepy high making you drowsy and sleepy melting away all your stresses and worries into smoke such as one of the legendary strains Grandaddy Purple.
There are some strains which produce energetic and euphoric highs making them optimal strains to float through your daily tasks with no effort such as our mythical landrace strain descendant Durban Poison.
What is important to note is that marijuana produces a real clean high, safe to say with the repercussions being nowhere than the high produced by medical illegal drugs. You will not be making a fool of yourself gurning and passionately french kissing the speaker in the club right after the person who was standing there before you was doing exactly the same thing like when someone is on MDMA or Ecstasy for example.
Your mind will not race and your confidence will not be altered chemically producing a persona which is definitely not you, making you aggressive,hard to deal with and obsessively addicted like when someone is on cocaine.
The high produced from marijuana will simply relax your mind making you more self aware, puts you in more of a meditative state. Making you more giggly and open to life experiences.
As no other but the Rastaman himself Bob Marley Puts it
When You Smoke The Herb It Reveals You To Yourself
Bob Marley
You know how I talked about how marijuana activates these pleasure receptors in the brain? These receptors are activated in order for us to be able to define the special moments of our life. What Marijuana does, is it keeps them activated, making every moment while you are high special.
Having said that, there may be a downside to this, think about it this way, if you perceive every moment of your life as special, how will you really remember or appreciate the truly special moments? It’s like special moments are your normality now hence nothing is really special as it becomes part of your normal routine and automatically cancels out what’s so special about these moments. That is some food for thought to maybe medicate strategically when you are truly looking to chill rather than all day every day. Every person has their own tolerance levels and conditions and it may take some experimenting and calibrating in order to find out what exactly works for you. Always start small and go bigger would be my main advice
2) Marijuana may help regulate appetite
Those who have experience in medicating on marijuana will undoubtedly tell you about the famous “Munchies”. What are they? It’s simply this magic which makes the food taste even better! When medicating on weed it is very common that stoners report increased hunger, I’m talking about four or five burgers in one bite hungry! This is because apart from making food taste so damn good, marijuana also induces appetite. This is great for people who are looking for some help with reduced appetite! Marijuana will undoubtedly help those with eating disorders or simply reduced appetite and make them more motivated to eat more while at the same time making food taste more delicious.
Will getting stoned make me fat? you might ask, well don’t you worry my fellow stoner as research has been done over a sample of 33,000 individuals in order to test whether marijuana makes you fatter. It has been consistently found that for some reason or another marijuana users were more likely to be in a healthy weight compared to their peers who did not consume marijuana. The reason for that remains a mystery until now, however, over time this has been found to be consistently true.
Apart from the most common cannabinoids that cannabis hosts such as CBD, THC and CBN a new compound has also been found. This compound THCV (Tetrahydrocannabivarin) has been found through scientific research to reduce appetite and induce less hunger. This means there are actual strains which could help ease your weight loss journey. Now, this compound is not consistently found in all cannabis plants, however, many expert growers such as those at Dutch Passion have already started working towards growing plants which will produce this compound in abundance. Dutch Passion has actually already produced one of these plants and is actually one of their most famous plants even though it has only been launched quite recently.
3) Marijuana may help with anxiety and depression
Let’s face it, today’s world is fast and it just keeps picking up speeds. Bills, worries, family issues, work-related issues may all add up onto each other leaving actual humans feeling helpless and inducing anxiety, depression or both. Now the area of anxiety and depression is very broad, I am certainly no expert but it has been scientifically found that marijuana does help reduce anxiety, as a mater of fact marijuana is commonly known to be used by individuals in order to be able to cope with anxiety and depression.
The High from Marijuana does tend to make you feel euphoric, making your thoughts go away for the time being reminding you there is a whole other world outside of what’s troubling you as human being. Marijuana as explained above may also help induce appetite and will also most of the time make you feel giggly and like having a laugh.
Having said that, even though this is still unclear, it has been found that THC actually only reduces anxiety at lower levels and may induce it further on higher levels. Again, experiment and calibrate by starting slow when smoking unless you want marijuana to make you feel uncomfortable which would defeat the whole purpose of consuming it in the first place.
Also, I would not personally recommend anyone to use marijuana as means to escape from reality. Remember my fellow stoner, life is much bigger than that and it is just not worth it. Do get medicated strategically, again problems in the end will always be there no matter how high you are, use marijuana to celebrate you being stronger than what is trying to bring you down rather than as a means to escape from your problems.
4) It helps inspire Creativity
Have you ever been getting high with your friends and all of a sudden you are talking about the weirdest stuff ever. I remember we used to suddenly get business ideas and amazing ideas about how we would make it work. We used to also get the weirdest ideas about the most creative parties to throw. As a matter of fact it has been scientifically proven that marijuana may help invite divergent thinking, heighten empathy, help improve verbal influence and diminish inhibitions. Now don’t me wrong this does not mean you have never written a word in your life and you re going to suddenly release the next bestseller right after smoking a sativa such as Durban Poison. These things take time, practice and patience as you can very well imagine, however many of the most creative celebrities the world has ever known used to medicate with Marijuana.
Did You Know?
Four pipes with traces of Marijuana in them have been excavated from William Shakespeare’s back garden. Yepp, William Shakespeare too.
5) It helps enhance the pleasures of sex
Any stoner will undoubtedly tell you how much better sex is right after smoking a bowl. The downside of this is, if you smoke too much you may end up sleeping.
However there is nothing like getting it on right after hitting the bong with a sativa dominant hybrid such as White Widow. It may be just what is needed to enhance the experience providing ultimate relaxation and heightened senses making that steamy session with your loved one even more steamy. Both men and women have reported a better secual experience right after medicating with Marijuana, men felt more energetic, creative and driven for the experience. While women reported to feel more relaxed allowing them to enjoy the experience in the best way possible leaving them with higher of what they called a leg shaking orgasm.
6) Anti-inflammatory and other medical properties.
It has also been shown that many cannabinoids in the cannabis plant have anti-inflammatory properties making it ideal for people suffering from any type of chronic pain.
Although there is still much research to be done, it has also been shown time and time again that marijuana seems to be an effective alternative to chemotherapy when it comes to killing cancer cells. At least, if not an alternative it is already being prescribed all around the world as an addition in order to be able to control nausea and vomiting induced by chemotherapy itself.
Nowadays, we are even seeing parents whose children suffer from any malignant tumours. Marijuana, except from the fact that it helps reduce pain and inflammation seems to also be incredibly effective in slowing tumor growth.
Negative Effects
1) Respiratory Problems
Anything you smoke, vape or inhale will have an effect on your lungs, especially if you mix tobacco or other additives. Unfortunately, the most common way of consuming marijuana is smoking it up till now, although more types of concentrates and consumption methods seem to be coming out by the second. It has been found that marijuana users seem to have more respiratory problems. My advice is, when you are smoking marijuana do so responsibly and at your own risk, if you already suffer from any kind of respiratory problems, I would suggest looking for other consumption methods such oils, concentrates, edibles etc.
2)Disorganized thinking
Although this case has never been true for myself, it seems like marijuana users seem to report disorganized thoughts when using marijuana daily. In my personal opinion, this may happen when you are using marijuana for the wrong reasons. As explained above marijuana should never be used as means of escapism but rather as an additive that accentuates your life experience.
If you find yourself not being able to control your thoughts and find that this may be coming from your marijuana consumption, I would suggest looking towards going on a tolerance break or a period of absolute no smoking of marijuana. Again, mental clarity is always much more important than getting high and if marijuana is having this effect on you than it is definitely having the wrong effect on you. Remember Bob Marley’s words above?
When You Smoke The Herb It Reveals You To Yourself
Bob Marley
If you are currently having issues where marijuana is disrupting your normal way of living rather than accentuating it, then it is just not worth it and you may need to deal with your other issues before considering getting high.
It Is A Gateway Drug
Well, this is nothing but the biggest lie governments and authorities have used to brainwash the masses about something they simply did not like, but that is something to discuss another day, however, please challenge this close-minded believe where marijuana leads to abusing other drugs. If anyone can ever say that it was marijuana which led them to using other drugs, then they are simply deluding themselves.
Marijuana Use Disorder
Too much of a good thing can be bad thing they say and yes, I would say there may come a time in your life where you find yourself simply liking to get high too much. Now, don’t get me wrong there is nobody who likes getting high more than me but if you find yourself avoiding social activities , hanging out with your family, friends , or even not attending work in order to simply get high, then you may need to consider your marijuana consumption and how exactly it would be benefiting your life. Even though marijuana has no physical withdrawal symptoms like other drugs, the simple habit of getting high may leave one uncomfortable if he cannot get high when he can. If this is you, marijuana is simply not benefiting your life anymore and you may need to find a way to reduce consumption or even stop it.
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