Gemma Speck

So if you've ever been high with your friends and thought, oh, my God, this conversation we're having right now is hilarious.

This is the funniest thing ever.

That was how has nobody ever thought of that joke or that saying or whatever?

We should start a podcast.

If you've ever had some bizarre idea for a movie or a joke that you're like, that is just this is genius.

And you look back the next morning and you're like, that was really actually unfunny.

Like that really was just bizarre.

That's what's happening here.

That effect on perceived creativity has struck you.

An earlier 2015 research paper also found that

Highly potent cannabis may actually impair divergent thinking in people that smoke regularly.

So weed may make thoughts feel more novel and exciting in the moment without necessarily making them better and actually making it harder for us to think differently long term.

essentially what we're really talking about is the effect that it has on our inner critic.

What weed really does is impact emotional control.

It can't make you more creative, but it can reduce the pressure and the, I guess, yeah,

surrounding you on a daily basis and it just lets your thoughts flow differently it just weakens your impulses that are perhaps previously holding back creative or non-creative thoughts that you would usually have what else we have to mention about how weed impacts us differently um oh we have to mention the hunger the munchies because weed makes some people absolutely ravenous

Absolutely ravenous and other people, they don't want to touch even their favorite meal.

Again, this is because the endocannabinoid system helps regulate not just your appetite, which it does, but also the pleasure and emotional pull of food.

THC appears to increase both wanting and liking food.

Food can seem more appealing and eating it feels more rewarding based on kind of how THC interacts with your CB1 receptors.