
CANNABIS & CREATIVITY ... Expanding Our Inner Potential
Marijuana definitely alters our mental performance and creativity on a temporary basis. At cognitive levels in the brain, research shows that the person who’s taken pot will often experience pronounced cognitive alterations in which the brain's associative function expands and generates unique combinations that are often quite creative and valuable. It's true that for most people, there's a cognitive downside to being high. Short-term memory is often disrupted unless consciou

WHY SOME PEOPLE HATE POT
I myself was brought up to hate marijuana, and to despise and persecute people who used it. Then I came of age in the sixties - and rapidly reversed my attitude toward weed. But most of my relatives to this day reject my use of cannabis - for any reason. We’re meanwhile seeing a rapid expansion of medical marijuana prescriptions for treating a large list of common ailments and conditions. And many people who never thought of using cannabis in their lives, or who tried it once