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Hello everybody. I'm Jemma Spike and welcome back to the psychology of your 20s, the podcast

where we talk through the biggest changes, moments and transitions of our 20s and what they

mean for our psychology.

Hello everybody. Welcome back to the show. Welcome back to the podcast. It is so great to have

you here back for another episode as we of course break down the psychology of our 20s back as

well for an episode. I know a lot of you have been waiting for. Thank you for your patience,

but I just felt like I felt like we had to wait for episode 420 to do this topic for aesthetic purposes,

of course. Today we are talking about the psychology of weed.

I know a lot of people have thoughts on cannabis usage and as a drug, you know, it's obviously

very easy to villainize, but cultures and societies have been using cannabis for thousands of

years. It is one of the oldest drugs, oldest plants, in fact,

that has, it's essentially co-evolved alongside humanity. And as we are, and as society is taking a

much more liberal approach to cannabis, I think the psychology behind it is very unexploid and incredibly fascinating.

I think the more liberal approach that we're taking to cannabis usage has been really amazing for so many people.

It's been adopted for chronic pain management, for therapeutic practices,

it's rolled back a lot of unfair criminalization, amongst many other things.

There are still important considerations we do need to know if we want to take part, especially

from an emotional, biological and psychological standpoint. You may have heard this thing that,

you know, no one has ever overdosed from weed. Weed isn't addictive. We need to kind of debunk these a little bit. There are

two sides to cannabis consumption that mean that it can be as dangerous as it is liberating and

enjoyable. So that's what we're going to talk about today as well as just the science and what it

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