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Not as in the chemical processess it sets off in the body but in what ways does it alter conciousness?

I think that it puts your conciousness "further back" so to speak so you perceive some of your subconcious, which has the affect of being able to think deeper about things and see through things in different ways, and can also have the affect of opening up your psychic centers more than normal.

The thing I was thinking though is that if you get paranoid, is that really the affects of the drug, or is that sort of thing that is often going on inside you behind your concious mind that you aren't aware of.

Anyone have any opinions on what ganja does to the mind?

dopamine, it all comes down to that. Recently researches have determined that dopamine has more to do with desire than reward, and in the past it was pretty much called the "reward" neurotransmitter.

keeping that in mind, dopamine is released (and thc mimics it) when you smoke pot. Dopamine is responsible from everything from concentration, comfort, and interest to anxiety and paranoia. Meth releases tons of dopamine, hence the paranoid speed freak. THC does pretty much the same but on a much chiller level, plus being a little slow can make a lot of people paranoid.

i used to get paranoid all the time when i smoked, and at the time i was kinda a paranoid guy. I eased up alot and with it came a much less paranoid high. So really, its what your brains used to doing. Your brain gets conditioned, the more you use one track of neurons the more it wants to be used (e.g. the paranoia section of neurons). So even if you get paranoid while stoned, if you can avoid it for long enough you'll eventually dig yourself out of it...unless of course your seriously mentally ill

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"Once I took a yard stick and measured ten yards only to realise I knew nothing about the distance I measured or the stick except that one was a tenth of the other."


Mine and your previous explinations could be analyogised by that sentence.


I think that it's possible though that it kind of causes one of the most frontward parts of teh mind to go "spazclarrt", which in turn has the affect of causing the subconcious to come more to the fore front.

Or on your terms, a kind of "plug in" takes place which causes a reaction between the mind and the ganja, but what is this about what are the "psychological" (for want of a better word) workings of it and why does this enhance the thought process of the individual.

it gives me the ability to have a lenthly talk with God.

It opens up a part of the mind. It lets out a deeper part of us that is normally repressed. This results in altered behavior. That's my theory.