It diffuses. It causes the system to be more open to alien values. It ‘turns the other cheek’.
It also makes blind to civilization and unleashes more brutal instincts.
These two factors contradict and contraproduce. This contradiction is, I conclude, the high itself.
(feel free to object)
The long term effects are a dissociation of the entity with its past, and a recognition of itself as, if not a pure product, a natural companion and co-occurrence to the present circumstances. One can invent oneself anew. But not after having thoroughly lost oneself.
Healing, tremendously. And enslaving.
The human mind wholly virgin to the effects of THC, lives, to be sure, in a much more confined space.
The human mind overtaken by these effects lives no longer in any kind of space, but ‘goes with the wind’.
As with all things a balance in required - but as with all powerful things, balance comes through years of excess.
THC does…even something like probiotics do…THC can decrease the anxiety in some and increase it in others, it can cause drowsiness in some and mental alertness in others, it can be an anti-depressant in some and contribute to schizophrenia in others, It can have no impact on some in anyway yet effect others dramatically for hours from one hit. It can make a depressed brain’s memory more functional and a healthy brain’s memory terrible.
It works the same way for anti-depressant medication, it affects people differently , this is why there are so many different types. This is why the common cold can not be cured because by the time it passes from one human to other, it has mutated, and technically it’s a different virus, then a different virus again when it is further passed onto another person, making it incredibly hard to develop an effective cure.
Yes, yes. Organism are very particular with their values.
The self-valuing, the structural integrity, is ‘like snowflakes’ - chaos theory applies especially within organisms. Inside we are weird fractals, none alike to another except in either bizarre or superficial ways.
If two beings are alike, they are together even more unlike anything else than they were separately.