Cannabis messes with our perception of time
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“All I can remember really is that it felt like time had completely stopped,” says James Stone. “It felt as if I’d be stuck there forever.”
A neuroscientist at King’s College London, Stone is describing a feeling that is very commonly reported by people after they use cannabis: time seems to slow down. When Stone volunteered for a cannabis study 15 years ago, he experienced this strange sense of time dilation firsthand.
The episode stayed with him, and it sparked his interest…
