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The Effects of Cannabis on Body Image Perception
“The Effects of Cannabis on Body Image Perception”, article by philosopher Sebastian Marincolo
28. February 2025 -
7 Myths About Cannabis and Creativity You Still Believe – And Why They’re Wrong
Cannabis and creativity have been closely linked for decades, with countless artists, writers, and musicians such as William Butler Yeats, Walter Benjamin, Frida Kahlo, Maya Angelou, John Lennon, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S.…
19. February 2025 -
CRAiSH – Creative AI Shock Block. How AI Developments will Shock Creatives in the Near Future
The CRAiSH – Creative AI Shock Block-phenomenon describes a psychological dynamic that became epidemic worldwide in 2025, as human creative agents across various fields became increasingly aware that their creative output was…
3. December 2024 -
What Hashish Did To Walter Benjamin
It’s the year 1927. In the U.S., marijuana use is widespread almost exclusively amongst Mexicans and black Jazz musicians during the swinging “Roaring Twenties”. In Berlin, the decade is also in full…
21. May 2021 -
The Zen-Effect of Marijuana
„When walking, walk. When eating, eat.“ Zen proverb One of the most predominant effects of marijuana is a hyper focusing of attention during the high. Often, this hyper focusing is experienced together…
5. December 2020 -
Henri Michaux and The Flying Carpet: Cannabis Explorations of an Unique Mind
„Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.“ Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) He was admired by many of his contemporaries both for his poetry and writing as well…
5. September 2016 -
My Cannabis Odyssey: To Vaporize or Not To Vaporize Dr. Grinspoon
A few years ago, my friend Lester Grinspoon asked me in one of our many Skype conversations about the cannabis high if I ever had the chance to try the cannabis strain…
7. April 2016 -
Marijuana, Escapism, and Mind Traveling
„Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.“ Thomas Wolfe We all need to escape from our daily routines once…
24. March 2016 -
Marijuana, Empathy, and Severe Cases of Autism
“You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.” John Steinbeck, writer, 1902-1968 “Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eye for…
3. March 2016 -
Just Another Altered State of Consciousness
“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?” Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Altered States of Consciousness and Western Culture There is the marijuana…
3. February 2016 -
What a High Can Do For Sex
“If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble…
21. December 2015 -
GUINEA – A Guerrilla-Neurophilosophical Approach to High Science
What is it like to be high? What is the positive potential of this altered state of consciousness for medical and inspirational uses? How exactly does marijuana enhance cognitive functions like our…
27. August 2015 -
Carl Sagan, Cannabis, and The Right Brain Hemisphere
„What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.“ Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913-1994), neuropsychologist and neurobiologist, known for his revolutionary studies of split brain patients In…
2. July 2015 -
Marijuana and the Enhancement of Episodic Memory
„A memory is a beautiful thing, it’s almost a desire that you miss.“ Gustave Flaubert, French writer (1821-1880) Our memory is simply amazing. We can store information about thousands of situations…
25. June 2015 -
Marijuana, Dopes, and Cognitive Enhancements
When genius mathematician and originator of cybernetics Norbert Wiener moved with his family from Cambridge to Newton, his wife organized the move and let Wiener concentrate on his work as a professor…
12. June 2015