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Does Cannabis Unlock Creativity?
How many musicians and other famous artists do we know that regularly uses weed? Who immediately comes to mind? For me, I think of people like Mac Miller and Eric Bellinger. Rihanna and A$AP Rocky also come to mind. However, the list is endless and goes back almost as far as time itself does.
Millions have been spent on anti-cannabis campaigns and propaganda spreading misinformation in order to scare people away from the “devil’s lettuce.” Throughout my childhood, there were quarterly anti-drug assemblies in crowded, smelly gyms and dimly lit auditoriums. They told us strangers would offer various drugs to us, including weed, and try to pressure us into trying it. Then they’d go on and on about how weed acts as a “gateway drug” and how we’d go from weed to something like heroin. These 90-minute assemblies had good intentions but were grossly inaccurate.
As we grow older, we learn to seek and digest information on our own. Instead of blindly believing authority figures, we began to think for ourselves and decide what sources are credible to us. The older I get, the more I realize just how wrong they were.
Weed is a psychoactive plant. This means that the cannabinoids that live in cannabis affect different areas of our brain. THC, the most commonly known cannabinoid, stimulates dopamine production. This is what leads to things like less…
