How Smoking Cannabis Affects Your Brain and Body
1 min Health
1 min Health
You light up and take a deep hit. Here's what happens inside your body.
Hot smoke fills your lungs. THC slips into your blood.
Within seconds, your heart pumps that THC straight up into your brain.
There, THC mimics your brain's own chemicals and locks onto its can- cannabinoid receptors.
You feel relaxed, but your memory center slows down and time can feel stretched.
Meanwhile, your heart rate can jump by 20 to 50 beats per minute.
Blood vessels in your eyes widen and your mouth dries out.
THC can boost your hunger hormone and sharpen smell and taste.
Hello, munchies.
The high fades in a few hours, but THC can linger in fat for weeks.
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