i understand exactly what you mean stroodle and have tried explaining this to a friend of mine and he doesnt understand, so it obviously does'nt affect everyone in this way but for me well
i have been smoking since i was 13 up until i was 15 but then suffered from psychosis due to the heavy smoking so i quit for a 18mnths, did as much research as posible to find out what had hapened to me and ended smoking every so often at first 'u know how its starts' then almost every day up till now and im 20 in 2 days when i plann to quit.
but back to the point in them 18months that i had quit for, i noticed i was so very different not in a bad way i totally recovered from the psychosis in fact it may be a combo of the psychotic episode, mentaly maturing, not being stoned anymore i dont quite know but i changed i had a 1000 thoughts on my mind at once and became interested in the universe and chi, meditation, shamanism, psychology, sociology, religion, war and well you get the idea, i have just gotten deeper and deeper over the years and i think weed as well as just getting older has deffinately oped my mind to the nth degree and like you said raised my awareness.
anyway im quiting in three days and going to search for my natural high of course i may have the ocasional recreational reefa.
enjoy the mind expansion
