# How Smoking Cannabis Affects Your Brain and Body

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120558864613490952
- Source account: [@ArtSwarog](https://x.com/ArtSwarog)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:09
- Published: 2026-11-12
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0xFZVof4RLaD/en/how-smoking-cannabis-affects-your-brain-and-body

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0xFZVof4RLaD/en/how-smoking-cannabis-affects-your-brain-and-body) You light up and take a deep hit. Here's what happens inside your body.

[0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0xFZVof4RLaD/en/how-smoking-cannabis-affects-your-brain-and-body?t=8) Hot smoke fills your lungs. THC slips into your blood.

[0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0xFZVof4RLaD/en/how-smoking-cannabis-affects-your-brain-and-body?t=16) Within seconds, your heart pumps that THC straight up into your brain.

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0xFZVof4RLaD/en/how-smoking-cannabis-affects-your-brain-and-body?t=22) There, THC mimics your brain's own chemicals and locks onto its can- cannabinoid receptors.

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0xFZVof4RLaD/en/how-smoking-cannabis-affects-your-brain-and-body?t=31) You feel relaxed, but your memory center slows down and time can feel stretched.

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0xFZVof4RLaD/en/how-smoking-cannabis-affects-your-brain-and-body?t=40) Meanwhile, your heart rate can jump by 20 to 50 beats per minute.

[0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0xFZVof4RLaD/en/how-smoking-cannabis-affects-your-brain-and-body?t=47) Blood vessels in your eyes widen and your mouth dries out.

[0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0xFZVof4RLaD/en/how-smoking-cannabis-affects-your-brain-and-body?t=55) THC can boost your hunger hormone and sharpen smell and taste.

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0xFZVof4RLaD/en/how-smoking-cannabis-affects-your-brain-and-body?t=60) Hello, munchies.

[1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0xFZVof4RLaD/en/how-smoking-cannabis-affects-your-brain-and-body?t=64) The high fades in a few hours, but THC can linger in fat for weeks.