Do brain cells die or sleep?
Marijuana “tickles” your braincells, unlike other drugs that pound on them and eventually wear them out. While you’re high, processes are slowed down and you have problems with concentration, but nothing dies. Thats just a popular misconception. The way I like to think of it is that in a normal state of consiousness, thoughts are very streamlined and precise; theres not much room for creativity but you have a very good control over your thoughts and they’re easy to focus. While you’re stoned, the focused, streamlined energy of your thoughts is dispered, and so you essentially end up with a HUGE variety of thoughts, and theres a TREMENDOUS oppurtunity for creative thinking. However, since your thoughts are all over the place, it can be rather difficult to focus them as sharlpy as you can when you’re consious (no doubt some immature stoners will tell you they can, but its chemically impossible for the level of clarity to be the same). So while you’re stoned creative processes like poetry