We all know pot heads. Super cool, relaxed people, laid back many who make cannabis their ideology with flags and proudly displayed psychedelic paraphanalia.

I get how the ideology grows upon them, though I’m not convinced that it’s due to the drug rewiring their brains. As much as cannabis makes you relaxed when you are high, I think people seek cannabis out and the lifestyle to be cool and relaxed. Cannabis doesn’t make you love Jimmy Buffet but loving Jimmy Buffet lifestyle might just make you love the intoxicating plant.

I think some of stoner culture comes out of the idea that for a long time cannabis was illegal and that you had to go underground to get it. It’s also in many ways an exaggeration of the stoned experience – colors in stoner psychedelic artwork are far more vivid than the enhancement one gets being high. Maybe it is propaganda for pot.

Heavy use over time probably rewires the brain. But probably not to the degree of popular culture makes it out to be. The cannabis doesn’t make people cool, or allow them to be so much more attuned to the world around them but people choose to smoke to be more attuned to the world around them.