Cannabis messes with our perception of time
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“I really just remember that it felt like time had completely stopped,” says James Stone. “It felt like I’d be stuck there forever.”
Stone, a neuroscientist at King’s College London, is describing the feeling people commonly report after consuming cannabis: time seems to slow down. When Stone volunteered for a cannabis study 15 years ago, she experienced this strange sense of time dilation firsthand.
This episode stayed with him, and it piqued his interest…
