How Do It Feel When You Are High

According to the latest polls, 1/3 of the people living in the United States have smoked pot at least once. And the same goes for the Italians, the Spanish and the French, with the rest of Europe following not too far behind. So many people experiencing the “high”, right?

A message to the first-time users: feeling high is a little like feeling in love or getting lost in a glass of the most sublime Chianti. Nobody feels in love in the exact same way. Nobody appreciate a great wine in the exact same way. And, you guessed it, nobody feels high in the exact same way.

Why? Because we don’t simply feel a feeling, we also process it.

When we feel something, we fell something about that something. Am I making any sense at all? Let me put it this way: feeling high is not the same if you are alone or with some friends, and it can be emotionally related to the most different (positive/negative) experiences and situations. Not only, then, each and every one of us feels high in a different way, but even our feeling high can change. Therefore, if you can, don’t approach this interesting feeling as a black-or-white, good-or-bad objective fact.

One thing we all share when it comes to the actual experience is the series of chemical reactions that happen in our body. As soon as the psychoactive chemicals of the cannabis enter our blood stream, they soon end up in the brain. Let me share a little curiosity with you here. If you want to get high, smoking a joint (as long as you hold the smoke in your lungs for a least 20 seconds) is way quicker than eating brownies or cakes. Why? Because digestion is a long process, while breathing is quite a direct link between the outside world and your blood.

Once they get to the brain, chemicals like the famous THC, also known as tetrahydrocannabinol, activate the receptors embedded within the membranes of certain nerve cells, which respond by releasing dopamine. Basically, our reward system gets triggered and the chemical/physical balance of the brain changes, giving us the “high” feeling. To describe the feeling, people have used words such as euphoria, happiness, interpersonal closeness and sensitivity, which are often followed by sleepiness and relaxation. And the best thing about it is that there is no cannabis-hangover.

Of course, different strains come with different types of “high”, just like different bottles of wine come with different sets of subtleties. If you want to try some of the best strains in the world, visit http://greenhouseseeds.nl, the best place to start exploring what “high” means to you.