Gemma Speck

It feels really overwhelming.

So maybe I'm not explaining that well, but basically...

you can come to the table, like anxiety isn't one type of thing, right?

We think of anxiety as this one condition.

There are actually variants to our anxiety.

And that is why even if we're not just comparing anxious and not anxious people, but

Two, three, four different anxious people, every single one of them could respond differently to weed based on how we interpret and how we relate to body sensations or bodily sensations and how in control we want to feel.

cannabis doesn't just create anxiety out of the blue it seems to amplify whatever emotion or feeling is already there such as pre-existing anxiety especially when the dose of THC is higher that also may explain why

Again, you may have different reactions across two different days because of your pre-existing emotional state on top of dosage, on top of your environment, on top of what is unconsciously going on for you.

One day you're fine, the next day you're not.

This is also the case for things like creativity as well.

A lot of people feel way more creative when they're high because our thoughts can feel less filtered and more unusual.

It makes whatever emotional state we're in heightened.

But the research here is actually really interesting.

This was an area I really wanted to look into.

And it suggests that feeling creative is not the same as actually being creative.

And when people smoke, they just feel creative.

They may not actually be more creative tangibly, practically, physically.

One 2023 study found that cannabis use didn't increase actual creativity, but it did make people have biased evaluations of their creativity.

Basically, that means they judge their own ideas, other people's ideas as more creative.