#1 Marijuana on your brain
Weed, Marijuana, Pot, Cannabis and
more popularly in our country, Gaanja is a psychoactive material that alters
reality. That, is the most mundane and unexciting description one can ever make
about weed. It is a curious subject, these psychedelics for onlookers who are
yet to try them. And before I experienced them, I scoured the internet for
articles on what weed does to our human brain. I was quite unsatisfied by the
content I received and hence, remembering it years later, I decided to write
about it.
This composition is dedicated to the
working of the drug on our human brain with a real life analogy making it
simpler to understand. My subsequent posts on the blog will be about the real
life experiences, visuals and feelings that one gets when they are high.
Marijuana is nothing but a plant
which contains the psychoactive compound of THC, Tetrahydrocannabinol. The THC
is responsible for everything a person feels when high. Let me leave aside the
usual explanation about extreme hunger, reddening of eyes, uncontrollable laughter and ravenous hunger. There are several articles on the internet which
explains them in detail.
To elucidate how weed affects the
human brain, let us take the example of a computer. I am attempting to run an
extremely graphic intensive car racing video game on it and see that the
performance is very average. I see the resolution to be low, the car moving in
fits and over all the game play is very disturbed. My experience of the game is nothing
like how it should be.
As a reactive measure, I kill all
other programs that my computer is running, like a web browser, a music player
and a few documents and set the game's services to run as priority on the Task
Manager. There is an instant change in how the game is now rendered by the
computer. Suddenly, the resolution is at its highest, the car moves smoothly
and the game play, all in all becomes seamless. Why?
Because all other tasks the
computer’s RAM was occupied with were killed. Moreover, the RAM was
specifically addressed to treat the game as a priority.
This is analogous to the functioning
of weed. From the above example, we can extract that the computer screen is our
perception, the RAM our concentration and the Task Manager is nothing but the marijuana.
When you are reading this article,
only 40% of your concentration is taking up this job. 10% is thinking about the
next meal, 20% about what tasks you have for the rest of the day, 20% about the
cricket match coming up, and the rest about various other things. When high on
weed, THC becomes the Task Manager and shuts off all your peripheral thinking.
So, about 90% of your concentration is thrown on a task that you are doing
instead of the paltry 40%.
This is a supreme state to be in. If you
are meditating, like a few of my friends do, you may attain greater depths in a
shorter duration. If you are making some music, you might bring out your best;
if you are thinking about a complex real life problem, you tend to see
solutions in areas which had never even existed before. All the same, you may
even sit on your couch looking at a coffee cup for hours together.
This can be cited as the reason for
why music sounds incredibly exhilarating. Since the amount of concentration
thrown on the instruments and lyrics of the song is extremely high, one can
just dissolve into it relishing every bit of it. Same goes with food, where one
can feel the specific taste of each item consumed tenfold. To summarise, weed
makes you ultra-attentive to any task that you do because of which you enjoy
it.
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