Gemma Speck

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Hello, everybody.

I'm Gemma Speck, and welcome back to The Psychology of Your 20s, the podcast where we talk through the biggest changes, moments, and transitions of our 20s and what they mean for our psychology.

Hello, everybody.

Welcome back to the show.

Welcome back to the podcast.

It is so great to have you here back for another episode as we, of course, break down the psychology of our 20s.

Back as well for an episode I know a lot of you have been waiting for.

Thank you for your patience, but I just felt like

I felt like we had to wait for episode 420 to do this topic for aesthetic purposes, of course.

Today we are talking about the psychology of weed.

I know a lot of people have thoughts on cannabis usage and as a drug, you know, it's obviously very easy to villainize, but cultures and societies have been using cannabis for thousands of years.

It is one of the oldest drugs, oldest plants, in fact, that has, it's essentially co-evolved alongside

humanity.

And as we are and as society is taking a much more liberal approach to cannabis, I think the psychology behind it is very unexplored and incredibly fascinating.

I think the more liberal approach that we're taking to cannabis usage has been really amazing for so many people.

It's been adopted for chronic pain management, for therapeutic practices, it's rolled back a

There are still important considerations we do need to know if we want to take part, especially from an emotional, biological and psychological standpoint.