The document discusses how cannabis and music interact synergistically in the brain to enhance the experience of listening to music. It explains that both cannabis and music stimulate the brain to release dopamine and increase feelings of pleasure. When combined, they produce an even greater dopamine response. Cannabis also impacts neurotransmitters in a way that allows the brain to focus on specific aspects of music for longer, enhancing auditory perception and allowing for a more detailed enjoyment of songs. Due to these neurological effects, music is often perceived as better and more enjoyable when high on cannabis.

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Hippies love it, ancient Sufis preached it, rappers repeated it like a mantra. Every one of these groups has
had their choice and way of portraying it, but they all agree on one truth about cannabis. These groups
believe marijuana improves the act of listening to music, taking the whole experience to another level.
Cannabis has helped many great minds come to a better appreciation and understanding of music. It helps
astrophysicist Carl Sagan have a full understanding of the principles of counterpoint and harmony. It also
helped Norman Mailer finally under jazz.
Indeed cannabis and music are a match made from heaven. They blend together like peanut butter and
jelly. Each on their own is great but when combined, an experience of pure bliss is achieved. In some
situations, you might even start to feel, or hear your favorite songs in a new and different light when you're
high. You notice various features, the artistic craft, how the sound blends and bends, melodies you haven't
noticed prior to the experience.
But why is that so? How is it that music and cannabis work together so well? Well, the reason for this unique
experience has so much to do with how music and cannabis interact with our minds.
Cannabis And Music

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To understand how music and cannabis do so much together, we need to first look at how they each
individually stimulate the brain
Music in the brain
Music, a blend of frequencies and vibrations stimulates not only the brain but the entire central nervous
system. Certainly, a song comes in different elements and facets which makes your nervous system and
brain get stimulated simultaneously.
Through scientific research, it has been established that music induces the brain to release dopamine.
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that enables people to feel good. It is a way your brain supports the
gratification that comes with listening to music.
To this end, music plays a very vital role in boosting the mood and reducing anxiety. Music can also go a
long way to improve mental strengths like alertness and memory. A lot of people fail to realize that our
brains put in a lot of effort to make music comprehensible and understandable. Spotify, the most used
music streaming service, has playlists now based on cannabis themes as well.
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Each song comes with various elements and our brains have to do the work of analyzing these elements,
combining everything like a puzzle. This helps to establish a regular exercise for our brain, enabling us to
connect deeply with music.
Cannabis in the Brain
An interesting thing about cannabinoids in the close resemblance they have with the molecules present in
our brain. THC in particular closely resembles a type of neurotransmitter in our brain. Hence, when a large
quantity of THC is consumed, it can function very close to these neurotransmitters. This causes them to
work differently than they normally do.
A critical way THC influences these neurotransmitters is by restraining them from having a break. Under
normal conditions, neurotransmitters fire and then take a break impeding any specific brain activity from
being in excess. However, the consumption of THC influences the neurotransmitters in specific areas of the
brain from taking a break. This causes some brain activities most especially our thoughts to drift on for a
while longer than they would usually do.
If you've ever been hyper-fixated on a particular thing while high, this would be the reason. It may be helpful
if you could pen down those thoughts and come back to them after being sober. This is one of the reasons
why working on creative and imaginative projects helps to amplify highs.
To add to these, cannabis also gets the brain to work more to make you happy. It operates with the brain to
process several emotions and increase positivity. In reaction to various emotional stressors, cannabis also
helps to reduce negativity.
Furthermore, marijuana also causes the brain like music to release dopamine and also increase levels of
norepinephrine. This is how cannabis develops a strong sense of bliss and thrill in consumers. Also similar
to music, the mood-lifting effect of marijuana is usually compared to a runner's high
Why Music Sounds Better When High

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It has now been established that both THC and music induce numerous reactions in the brain, including the
release of additional dopamine.
With the combination of both forces, your brain is always happy when high and listening to music. Hence,
you might feel that's the greatest feeling to ever experience. This makes music and cannabis a kind of power
couple—they work together to strengthen each other in the best way possible.
Given marijuana affects the brain such that a user can get fixated on a particular thought longer than
normal, then users can stay on a specific aspect of the song they enjoy most. It can be said that cannabis
influences our perception of time and the speed of our internal clock. Hence, this gives a cannabis user
listening to music a heightened auditory sense. This allows the music to be enjoyed in a more detailed way
given the user has "more time" to examine the musical elements of a song.
And with so many elements to enjoy in a song, music often carries a deeper and stronger meaning when
listened to when high. THC gives the music the extra feeling of ecstasy and vice versa.
Naturally, the brain already has linked listening to music as a sensational activity. Adding cannabis to the
combo only increases the sensation to a whole new level. In fact, you may find an increase in sensation in
other activities you do when you are high on cannabis. Some streaming services now have marijuana-
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click on and just enjoy.
Conclusion
Several reasons have been established as to why music sounds better when high. Some scientific, and
others superstitious but whatever the reasons might be we guess it doesn't matter. The fact remains that
music sounds better and ecstatic when high and there's a general consensus amongst cannabis users that it
does. So turn on the music, light up a joint and enjoy the experience.
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