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Effect of Cannabis use on hearing

Glad to hear that your doing okay after all that pain!

Though I don't know you but I'm almost 100% sure that the drugs want your problem, instead it was a symptom. A symptom of a trauma maybe even from your childhood, maybe an absent father or an angry mother. Again I don't know you so I can't say anything definitely, but never the less I am glad that you're doing better!

But yeah, drugs are rarely the problem for a mentally healthy person, instead it can be a great tool for for example using alcohol for having it a bit easier to talk to strangers at parties, drinking coffee for getting energy to do work or smoking a joint to relax after a stressful day and enjoy some nice music :)
So again, drugs are great tools if used correctly, but it can also destroy lives if use incorrectly.

Having that said I will never ever try heroin, but I still think no drug should be illegal since that in itself is hurting more than it helps.
And also because I want to be able to take a pill of elvanse and a decent space cake at a party without being a criminal, because _very _much prefer that high over alcohol. I get lots of energy, I'm social, I'm fun, I'm in control and trip over everything, I don't have to constantly pee, I don't do/say stupid things and boy it's nice to dance!
Im not looking for sympathy or psychoanalysis :D
Ofcourse drugs have followed mankind since awakening, but so has arrogance. To be mentally healthy is not the same as being mentally strong, its just worlds apart. To add to that, mentally healthy people dont use drugs. Not to say that if you are not mentally healthy, you are mentally ill. Its certainely bad mental hygiene. If you get the perspective.
Your post. Im not gonna pluck it apart. What I want to tell you, is to be mindful and critical with drugs, because its so devious, and understanding come afterwards. Nobody wants that.
I can tell you this because I havent just tackeled my own abuse, but Im also educated and have been working as a professional to help others to recover.

Im not gonna loose my breath or get moral about it. I can enjoy a joint on top of a couple of beers. NP! I dont listen to much music stoned though, for some reason I dont care about. At last, life is for anyone to figure out for themselves, also the consequences of it. So go figure ;)
 
In the USA cannabis use obviously goes back in time longer than from any of we ASR readers' birth. For example the world renown musician Louis Armstrong (born 1901) early on had a nickname among fellow musicians - "Muggles", which was in his day one of that group's slang words for "marijuana" (cannabis). He was at some point a regular pot smoker and none-the-less left us many fabulous song renditions.
 
In the USA cannabis use obviously goes back in time longer than from any of we ASR readers' birth. For example the world renown musician Louis Armstrong (born 1901) early on had a nickname among fellow musicians - "Muggles", which was in his day one of that group's slang words for "marijuana" (cannabis). He was at some point a regular pot smoker and none-the-less left us many fabulous song renditions.
But in case i smoke pot it's impossible for me to become Louis Armstrong or Bob Marley.
 
In the USA cannabis use obviously goes back in time longer than from any of we ASR readers' birth. For example the world renown musician Louis Armstrong (born 1901) early on had a nickname among fellow musicians - "Muggles", which was in his day one of that group's slang words for "marijuana" (cannabis). He was at some point a regular pot smoker and none-the-less left us many fabulous song renditions.
Lots of masterpieces made in insobriety :D US has a different cultural background than Europe. Weed was popular with the decendants of slavery and imigrants from south. Cannabis laws, and the practise of it, where also designed to further suppress these groups and to make a divide with established US. This came hand in hand with industrial revolution. Hemp products where no longer needed with the invention of petroleum based products like NylonTM. So hemp industry was shot dead in the water, both from lawmaking and competition. Weed smokers may not be the best factory workers either.

Back to the OP. I think of a metaphor to S/N ratio. Where music is signal and noise is everything else. Weed is like noise reduction, music gets closer and appear from more of a pitch-black like background. An experiment is to start music first, when lite up and observe the change. This is for people who live in countries where cannabis is legal though. Wouldnt encourage any of you mofo´s to break the law in any way :D I dont think weed alter hearing though, only perception of sound.

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Some quick choices. and remember drugs dont only kill users. It destroys familys, communities and countries. Stay away from pills and powder. Small advice from an ex-professional player.
 
what in the woodstock did i just read through
 
Hello friends :)
We are more receptive to music when we are high/stone because two things:

- Psychic: our brain is more sensitive to waves sound, we surf the waves :p

- Biologic: the nervous system central is stone, so it does less cochlear compression, that means the frequency selection is more precise. Some few people with ultra sensitive hearing can perceive some distortion when they are stone.

But don't forget: you can smoke and plane but you can't drink and drive ( Bob Marley ).
 
Cannabis smoking usually involves deeper inhalation, longer deliberate smoke retention and when rolled in paper unfiltered the joint stubs are "roaches" enriched with hot tars. Weed (cannabis) also causes the blood to load up with CO which limits the oxygen carrying capacity even more than tobacco does [venous carboxyhemoglobin cited below is predicative of arterial carboxyhemoglobin levels].

Furthermore compared to tobacco weed provokes similar lung tissue side effects [histopathological alterations cited way below]. For what it matters I used to regularly recreationally smoke pot and hashish throughout the late 1960s as well as lots of unfiltered tobacco daily. After abstaining for decades a medical doctor told me he could tell that from my lung x-rays. I guess might as well add that I can confirm my recollection is that music recordings and concerts were usually enrapturing when "stoned".



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I think that inhaling any burnt particulate, regardless of the type, can't be any good for you.
 
I wonder how does weed affect you guys while listening to music.

And if you know if any Scientific studies on this specific effect in particular.

For me when i smoke the Devil’s grass I experience few effects.

1) Bass is more pronounced, I would be perceiving it louder than it actually is

2) Better sound imaging, i could always tell where each part of the sound is within the stereo image.

3) i would pay attention to details that otherwise I wouldn’t notice, i would be able to separate background vocals from lead vocals and hear them as if i’m in a stage and they’re coming from two different places (due to the improved sound imaging as well)

4) Synthesia (when i’m really stoned) the different notes and tones start poping colors when i close my eyes.

Do you guys notice any particular effects on your hearing when you smoke?
The adage is true, at least among people I know:
Give 4 guys unlimited booze and they'll end up fighting in the alley. Do the same with weed and they'll start a band.
 
And I read here it's safe to vaporize because there is not particular. Only THC. But THC induces emphysema...
 

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