Gemma Speck

The main reason weed can feel euphoric or strange or calming or even disorientating is because of its chemical makeup.

One University of Mississippi study has found that there are over 140 cannabinoids as well as other chemicals that make up the chemical structure of cannabis.

When those enter our body, they kind of flood every single system and they create the reactions that we know.

But when we talk about mainly the psychological sensation that accompanies weed, we are mainly talking about two specific cannabinoids that have the most impact, THC and CBD.

They are both active components found in cannabis.

They affect the body and brain very differently and

and are the most significant of the chemicals that make up cannabis.

So basically they are responsible for the majority of the feeling that we have in response to smoking weed or consuming weed.

So THC is the main psychoactive component.

This is the component most responsible for the classic high that people feel.

So that shift in time awareness, the increase in appetite, the foggy memory and thought patterns, everything.

And for some people as well, anxiety and paranoia, it's THC.

CBD is very different.

It does not produce the classic high associated with THC.

And it does not seem to bind to the brain's CB1 receptors in the same direct, powerful way that THC does.

Instead, CBD has a much broader and more indirect pharmacology.

So what that basically means is that

THC is coming in and only really hitting one kind of receptor.

CBD is hitting multiple different kinds all across the body, including CB2 receptors, which actually occur primarily in our immune system.

So it's involved in several systems is basically what we're saying.