eli5 What exactly happens to you when you smoke marijuana? What is it that causes you to feel “high”?

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Just like the title says I’m wondering what is happening to you when you get high on marijuana.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

ok so your brain is this SUPER complex machine. It is actually a kind of like a country. Imagine the whole thing with roads, trains, people, planes everything. Normally the country does it’s thing, it sleeps, eats, works, travels you name it.

Now what drugs do is introduce an effect like weather. If it snows everything looks different, thats cool, litterally. So this influences a lot of random things, both fun and less fun. People enjoying the snow, ice-scating and the like. BUT if you are trying to control everything the snow can be scary. Imagine all the cars having to go to work, but it’s slippery!

So to conclude, it influences you in a way that can be experienced both fun and scary. It can make trouble, but it will melt after a while bringing you back to earth (litterally again.. since.. well if you stand on the snow.. :p)

Anonymous 0 Comments

Why do i just shup up, don’t talk with anyone and just sit there, because every physical thing gets super difficult even talking or even looking at my friends’ faces? I then try to “wake up” because it doesn’t feel good to in that state. I don’t like smoking anymore because of this, but the weird thing is my friends don’t get same effects as me.