Cannabis: I Get High With a Little Help From … Science

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

Science, Education, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 11.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Weed has gone mainstream, and it's been rebranded as a wellness drug that you can customize to fit your needs. Want to feel relaxed? Well, you'll need a kind of pot called Indica. Want to get pepped up? Go for Sativa. But what can weed really do for us? We’re going to pack a bowl full of science facts, sit back, put our feet up and find out: Can cannabis really improve your mental health? Does it matter what strain you take? And how safe is it – can it mess with your memory? To find out, we talk to agricultural scientist Dr. Sean Myles, neuroscientist Dr. Amir Englund, and psychologist Dr. Carrie Cuttler. Find our transcript here: https://bit.ly/ScienceVsCannabisTranscript In this episode, we cover: (00:00) A New World of Weed (05:32) Can Different Strains of Weed Do Different Things for You? (13:18) Can CBD Give You a More Mellow High? (22:46) Can Weed Help with Anxiety or Depression? (24:55) What Are The Risks of Using Cannabis? (35:30) What’s the Safest Way to Use Cannabis? (38:25) Can Weed Boost Your Creativity? This episode was produced by Meryl Horn, with help from Wendy Zukerman, Rose Rimler, Michelle Dang, and Joel Werner. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell. Fact checking by Eva Dasher. Mix and sound design by Bobby Lord. Music written by Bobby Lord, Bumi Hidaka and Peter Leonard. Thanks to all the researchers we spoke to including Professor Ryan Vandrey, Professor Christopher Barnes, Dr. Siqi Xue, Professor Susan Tapert, Dr. Michael Dunn, Dr. Linda Parker, Professor Deepak D'Souza, Professor Vikaas Sohal, Professor Loren Frank, and Dr. Ethan Russo. Also thanks to Jill Conforti, the Zukerman Family, Joseph Lavelle Wilson, Bernadette Sciandra, and Chris Suter. Science Vs is a Spotify Studios Original. Listen for free on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us and tap the bell for episode notifications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckermann and you're listening to science verses.
0:04.0	This is the show that pits facts against firing up a jay
0:10.0	as we tackle cannabis.
0:19.0	More and more people have been using weed. According to one Gallup poll,
0:21.0	last year around one in six American adults smoked pot, which is more than double
0:26.7	what it was 10 years ago. And recently, when I was visiting New York, you could just smell it in the air.
0:34.9	That huge wave of pot just came over me, not mine.
0:40.3	Just the city, I just forgot how much New York just smells like weed all the time
0:47.2	It's all pretty apropos
0:49.4	Because I was a
0:54.0	a cannabis shop in Manhattan, a legal one. I opened the door to a clean, brightly lit weed store.
0:58.0	It just looks like an apple store.
0:59.0	Oh, with something that kind of looks like a dildo.
1:02.0	It's like a bit, it's like a...
1:04.0	Hi!
1:06.0	Hi! I'm meeting senior producer Merrill Horn,
1:09.0	and we marveled at the giant dildo together,
1:11.0	which was actually a five foot tall sculpture of a joint.
1:16.4	Then we met one of the Bud tenders, Kiara.
1:19.1	She told us about the store's grand opening last year.
1:22.2	It was just packed in there.
1:24.0	You're like trying to move and like,
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