ReCan

This is a bit different view, some might say opposite view to what I wrote earlier about cannabis. This thought differs from previous basically in one way, why people get slow, in the previous post I wrote that it might be due to the alternative ways of thinking, and there is simply too many connection, but I think this is a better one:

We already established in previous discussions that a person, after smoking cannabis gets his/hers views expanded, I will not go through it again, but I really didn't give any explanation to why It was so, instead I focused on consequences of that, here comes a thought about why:

This is based on a documentary i watched where it is said that smoking cannabis affect the brain in such a way that a certain chemical is released. This chemical is always present in our brains and is released in smaller amounts to counteract another chemical that is released in our brains that does create connection between neurons. Because if too much of chemical that connect neurons is released it will spill over and short circuit several neurons, that is what we call for epilepsy, hence that other chemical counteract that, and when smoking cannabis more of that counteracting chemical is released.

How come then that people are able to think of things when they are high that they would never have thought of otherwise, why do artists and writers smoke cannabis to get inspiration, should it not have the opposite effect, people just getting slow not able to think of anything? Well there is two possibilities, research mentioned above is wrong or perhaps following:

As mentioned in previous post, brain is like a network, a graph where connections are reinforced if they are used a lot, for example if you try to remember something it helps to repeat it over and over again until those connections in your brain are strong enough, hence your remember. Therefor when you think, hear, say , smell, see something those strongest reinforced connections for that particular situation will fire and you will do, say, hear, see, remember as you have always done thus far, since your brain is trained that way.

Therefore by smoking cannabis and releasing more of the chemical that counteracts those strong connections, your memory gets worse and your thinking slower, while at the same time the strength of all connections get more even. Hence seeing, hearing, thinking something while being high will results in other neurons being fired instead of the usual ones that are always fired, resulting in new thoughts and experiences that would never have been possible otherwise, allowing writers to write what no one else thought about, artists to paint what no one else could imagine.

Everything above can be easily illustrated with following example, imagine making deep paths in the ground with a stick, and when you pour water in one end you will be certain that most of it will follow the paths and end up on the other side, that is you memory, every time you se water in one end you know where it ends up. Water that spills over and end up somewhere else is the creative process, it can spill over anywhere creating new wet spot, like new idea, but they will still be close to the path. Now imagine you erase, flatten out, those paths so they get really shallow temporarily, pouring water in one end will just end up in one big wet spot, with very little ending up on the other side.