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How to Use Cannabis for Mind-Enhancments – New Online Course Now Online

These 10 cannabis-activated tools can make you smarter, more creative, and more connected to who you truly are.

Did you know that the psychoactive properties of cannabis can be used as a very powerful tool for developing parts of you that you might not access otherwise? In fact, when used with the right guidance and intention, cannabis can help you imagine new possibilities for your life that you couldn’t see before, clear patterns of behavior that aren’t serving you anymore, and experience deep insights about who you truly are and why you’re here on earth.

During this very exciting new course, Dr. Sebastián Marincolo Ph.D will guide you on a wonderful cannabis-activated journey to utilize the psychoactive properties for your own personal and spiritual development. With the help of cannabis, he’ll show you how to enhance your memory, increase attention and focus, intensify imagination, feel better about yourself, stimulate more creativity, and much more.

Obviously, this may not be what you’ve been told cannabis will do to you. But if you love this plant, you intuitively know that these outcomes and benefits are possible. So go on an amazing journey with this world renowned expert to expand your mind, enhance your creativity, and unlock new parts of yourself today.

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You’ll benefit by understanding:

How to choose specific strains, dosage, setting and activities that will:

Enhance your memory
Increase your attention and focus
Develop your imagination
Feel better about yourself & your body
Enjoy more creativity


The science behind how cannabis can be used as a cognitive enhancement tool
How to successfully integrate what you learned during the cannabis high into your daily life
What type of cannabis you should avoid that will block your personal development
How to use cannabis to break free from psychological conditions like fear, doubt, and insecurity
How to unlock the full mind-enhancing potential of this incredible plant

This course is for you if…

You enjoy cannabis and love learning new things about yourself
You are a person who likes to explore other dimensions
You are drawn to cannabis for the psychoactivity
You’d love to have an expert guide to facilitate this cannabis journey
You are interested in connecting more deeply with yourself and others

This course is also perfect for professionals…

Medical professionals, patients and their relatives will better understand how marijuana acts on the human mind in general and in how many ways it can help patients like autistic children and others.
The course is also interesting for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists who consider working with cannabis.
Researchers interested in the nature of the psychoactive properties of cannabis, including physiologists and neuroscientists working in the field of endocannabinoid research.
Specialized cannabis growers/breeders who want to create specific strains to enhance creativity or which can help with autism spectrum disorders




Your Course Includes:

Over 2 hours of hands-on video training for how to better use certain strains of cannabis with specific delivery and dosage recommendations for self exploration & development
A private Q&A group call with Sebastián (July 6th at 1pm PST)
Experiential guidance including recommended setting, activity & applications
Handouts like the most important cannabinoid and terpene activation points & suggested reading
A protocol to help establish a baseline and consciously approach your experimentation
Anytime access to enjoy this online course (for life)
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Instructor


Dr. Sebastián Marincolo, PhD

Dr. Sebastián Marincolo holds a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Tübingen, Germany, with a thesis in the field of the philosophy of mind. His research has received several academic fellowships and awards by exploring the philosophy of mind, neurocognition, and on altered states of mind, with a special focus on the cannabis high. Marincolo has published dozens of essays on the cannabis high, published three books on the cannabis high, and has worked with marijuana expert Harvard Associate Prof. Emeritus Lester Grinspoon.

Personally. Marincolo has used cannabis himself for various purposes and financed much of his research with his creative work. For more than five years he was a creative director and consultant for one of the biggest foundations in Germany and has more than 25 years of experience as a freelance photographer. His art photography from New York City, Rio de Janeiro, Bali and other places has been shown in various exhibitions and art galleries in Germany and the U.S.

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My Cannabis Odyssey: To Vaporize or Not To Vaporize Dr. Grinspoon

A few years ago, Lester asked me in one of our many Skype conversations about the cannabis high if I ever had the chance to try the cannabis strain Dr. Grinspoon, which the Dutch seed bank Barney’s Farm had created and named after him. I was surprised and a bit sad to hear that he had never used it himself. Obviously, he was curious to know more about its psychoactive and medical potential.

Since then, I have been to Amsterdam several times and tried to buy either some seeds or some Dr. Grinspoon marijuana to try it myself and to vaporize it – but it was always out of stock, not even available at the original Barney’s Farm store. I had heard from various users and professionals in the cannabis business that the strain would generate a magnificent high.

However, they also said that the strain would not bring much yield, would be hard to grow, and it would be almost impossible to get because the demand was so high. I tried to order the seeds over the internet, with no success. My mails to Barney’s Farm did not get answered. When I called, they said it was temporarily out of stock. For a while, then, I gave up.

During my last trip to Amsterdam a few weeks ago I decided to make a last effort and went on another mission to get some Dr. Grinspoon seeds – what followed was a two hour long Odyssey through various stores selling seeds from Barney’s Farm, again with no success. I finally went back to the original Barney’s Farm store only to hear that they would not sell those seeds anymore. A very friendly employee behind the counter confessed to me he would have some seeds at home for himself, but that he would not give them away for anything in the world. ”It’s that good, hm?” I asked him and he gave me a bright, knowing smile, nodding his head. He told me, though, somewhat apologetically, that I could now get some Dr. Grinspoon marijuana at their coffee shop Amnesia a few blocks away.

When I arrived there, I was relieved to hear they actually had some Dr. Grinspoon and bought a tiny amount of the expensive marijuana, which allegedly has a 100% Sativa heritage.

Amsterdam Street Scene January 2016, (c) Sebastian Marincolo

I was extremely curious, but I didn’t want to try it right there. I wanted to sit down in a more relaxed and peaceful environment with C., a good friend of mine and a true cannaficionado. He loves to smoke marijuana in a joint with tobacco, but this time, I told him, we need to vaporize – I didn’t want to waste that precious green gold after this long hunt by burning it in a joint. I have researched the difference between a high resulting from burning versus vaporizing marijuana for quite a while and came to the conclusion that vaporizers generate a high which leaves you much more functional, cognitively speaking. Especially at lower temperatures, a vaporizer generates less CBN (cannabinol, an oxidative breakdown product of THC) compared to any process that burns marijuana. CBN brings some interesting medical effects, but you should avoid it if you want a clear, mind-enhancing high, because it tends to have a sedative, confusing, and disorienting effect. So, we vaporized Dr. Grinspoon with a precision vaporizer at a lower temperature (around 320-340F). For experiential reports, I believe that it really matters to be precise and let others know at which temperature you vaporize a certain strain with its distinctive chemotype. Cannabis contains around 100 cannabinoids and 200 terpenes/terpenoids and some flavonoids, which all have

different medical and psychoactive effects. Each of these chemical compounds boil and vaporize at different temperatures and different strains contain different proportions of these compounds. So, by setting your vaporizer to a certain temperature, you extract a distinctive chemical profile from a strain, and each strain contains a unique chemical mix.

Before we inhaled, we wanted to analyze the scent of Dr. Grinspoon to find out more about its terpene profile – the compounds that give cannabis strains their unique scent and which also have distinctive psychoactive and medical effects (cannabinoids have no scent or aroma).

We found that, surprisingly, the small pearl-sized buds had a dominant pine tree scent, which could point to a higher level of the terpene alpha-Pinene. It also smelled like hay, not very sweet and we could not perceive much of a citrus note (which is officially described as one of the defining scents), it was more herbal, and a bit earthy. A very unusual, fine scent.

C. started to vaporize first. We talked about the manuscript of my new book about the marijuana high for a few minutes, knowing that a vaporizer high usually needs a while to take effect. After a few minutes, C. suddenly looked at me with a happy, surprised, and shining smile and said: “I can’t feel the cognitive effects of the high, yet, but I feel a remarkable change in mood; it makes me happy, a very gentle feeling of euphoria.”

A few minutes later I felt exactly what he had described. Not the euphoric rush accompanied by laughter or giggling which so often comes with the quick onset of a strong high along with other changes in cognition. There was only this wonderful change in mood completely separated from any other effects on the mind. No confusion, no silly mishaps that would make you laugh, just happiness. I was beginning to feel very calm, happy, and mentally relaxed. There it was, this profound feeling of euphoria, a state of pure bliss, warm and energetic. What a Sativa queen! The high had not even begun to kick in and it was already obvious that this would be special, majestic.

And then, the high came, slowly, subtle, very gentle, and crystal clear. I never experienced anything like that before. We both felt incredibly focused. In my books on the marijuana high, I often wrote about this “hyperfocus” effect of attention, but this hyperfocusing-effect was truly special. It did not feel so much as perceptually in a “tunnel” of attention, where you focus strongly on something selectively and forget about everything else. It made both of us feel aware of everything around us, calm, clear, highly functional, mentally very sharp and focused, yet open, and thoughtful. Perfect for an ADHD person like me, I guess, and I am sure this mental focus could help a lot of others, too.

There were no disruptions of short-term memory, not even once during that whole evening. Neither C. nor I lost the thread while talking or listening to the other.

The enhanced flow in thinking was amazing. Not too much speed, no mind-racing. I didn’t fall off from the back end of a speeding train of thought. Also, remarkably, there was practically no effect on the body. We felt energetic, yet neither agitated nor physically relaxed, and definitely not physically “stoned”.

When C. left for the kitchen to prepare some food, I felt an am

azing stillness and clarity. I felt confident, strong, sharp, happy, very much myself, nobly elevated, and my intellectual abilities enhanced. This strain is like a rare champagne, a whole new experience.

C. came back and we talked for hours, generated great ideas, we had such an amazing evening! Later, walking home, I came up with some more great ideas for my new book.

After describing the effects of Dr. Grinspoon on my mind I was curious to read about whether the terpene alpha-Pinene which seemed to C. and me to be one of the dominant scents in Dr. Grinspoon. The cannabis information resource Leafly says that alpha-Pinene “helps counter short-term memory loss associated with THC and promotes alertness.”  That makes perfect sense to me, but I could not find out so far whether thestrain really contains high levels of alpha-Pinene.

In the last years, when I felt I need more clarity and get that elevated and euphoric feeling of insight, I often called Lester Grinspoon on skype to talk to him about the marijuana high. So, now, if he’s not available because he is busily giving interviews or consulting cannabis activists I can just go and vaporize Dr. Grinspoon. From now on I have the Grinspoon twins to talk to.

What a blessing.

 

This article has first been published on www.marijuana-uses.com – a website project by my friend Lester Grinspoon with experiential reports from marijuana users which I highly recommend to everybody interested in the high experience”

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Marijuana, Escapism, and Mind Traveling

„Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.“

Thomas Wolfe

We all need to escape from our daily routines once in a while. We go on vacations, play tennis, or relax sipping on a glass of whine. Many marijuana users focus on the here-and-now to forget about their daily routines and worries during a high. There is nothing wrong with those little escapes – as long as they help to lead a happy life.

 

From Little Escapes to Escapism

For many, however, marijuana has become a means to repeatedly escape from stressful situations and to hide from challenges in their lives. They have moved from their little escapes to an unhealthy pattern of escapism. Of course, the use of marijuana is only one of the many means which can be abused for an escapist stance towards life. Alcohol or activities such as playing a computer game or watching television can be likewise abused for the same purpose.

Marijuana certainly has a great potential to relieve stress, both physiologically as well as psychologically speaking.

THC degrades to cannabinol (CBN), which has a medical value for various indications, but is also said to have a more sedative and confusing effect on consciousness.

As to the latter, many who are mainly seeking the stress relief effect of marijuana settle for being “dazed and confused”. To achieve this state of mind, they tend to consume cheap low-quality marijuana which has been harvested too late and stored in the wrong way – exposed to light, oxygen and warm temperatures. A bigger proportion of the THC has then degraded to CBN (cannabinol), which generates a more sedative and confusing state of mind.

Those users want to get more “stoned” than being “high”. This bad quality and the resulting effects are all that many consumers can afford on the black market anyway. The resulting altered state of mind delivers the desired relaxation and the mental escape; on the other hand, however, these users do not fully experience the wide range of cognitive enhancements which good marijuana can potentially generate under favorable conditions.

 

Prohibition and Escapism

We need to understand that decades of prohibition have actually led to this widespread abuse of marijuana solely for the “dazed-and-confused” effect described above – in various ways. About 40 years ago growers started to use an Afghani indica strain (or, “broad leaf” – cannabis variety) to generate hybrid cannabis strains with a more compact shape, high THC-content and short harvest cycles. They created cannabis plants for growers who wanted a bigger yield, smaller plants to be grown indoors, and a high ration of THC for a better “punch”. As a result, cannabis plants – even the landraces growing in the wild – have changed worldwide and most strains today contain significant levels of the sedative terpene myrcene – a genetic heritage of the Afghan genetics mentioned above.

Also, the prohibition has hindered a free flow of information between users, producers, and scientists. The market is not transparent and users are often completely uneducated about what they consume, so many of them end up getting bad quality and often even laced marijuana. Many users have never experienced the full range of the mind-altering potential of marijuana.

And, of course, the prohibition has generated a widespread desire for more escapism. During a prohibition, those who develop a problematic relationship with marijuana are not only left alone by society, but are also criminalized. Many users then react to more trouble with more escapism, using more bad marijuana – they go in a downward spiral.

To conclude, then, prohibition has obviously played and still plays a decisive role in influencing an unhealthy dynamic system of growers and users, a system leading to an impoverished use and often a misuse of bad quality marijuana to simply sedate and to daze and confuse users seeking to escape from their every-day worries.

 

Mind-Travelling Instead of Escaping

In a legalized and regulated market as we can see it now in some parts of the U.S., in the Netherlands, or in Uruguay, we can observe that many users know much more about their strains. They have access to a better quality of marijuana and they can afford a much better quality for their money. Many users do not only get to know countless medical uses of marijuana, but also rediscover and explore the many dimensions of a marijuana high for inspirational and other uses.

I have argued in several places places that if used with skills and knowledge, the marijuana high can bring a whole bouquet of perceptual and cognitive enhancements: a hyperfocus of attention, intensified sensory experiences, as well as the enhancement of episodic memory, imagination, pattern recognition, creativity, introspection, empathic understanding, and insights.

Instead of using marijuana solely for the purpose of relaxation, to stimulate appetite, or to enjoy the euphoria of a high, users start to mind-travel on marijuana and to use these enhancements to compose music, to get creative in the kitchen, to come to a better understanding of their friends, to generate scientific or personal insights, or to make love. They are not going around in circles anymore like many escapists, but instead use marijuana productively to mind-travel and to personally grow. These users describe marijuana as a huge enhancement in their lives.

The stereotype of the lazy, dysfunctional stoner, then, is not misleading and wrong in the sense that this type of users would not exist. They do exist, and there are way too many consumers who abuse marijuana for escapism. However, it is not an intrinsic property of marijuana to automatically produce this dysfunctional state. The problem is generated to a large degree by the prohibition leading to various conditions leading to this widespread abuse and to the consumption of bad marijuana. Also, the problem is generated by a socially cold, materialist neo-liberal society in which many constantly experience too much negative stress, causing them to look for tools to escape.

 

Legalization, Education, Use and Abuse

Do more people use more marijuana when it is legal to do so? We know from many comparative studies about this subject that this is not necessarily the case. However, I believe that it is time to ask a more relevant question: if we legalize marijuana and educate the public better, will we manage to get less people to abuse marijuana like many do so for escapism? We have every reason to believe so. As we can clearly see now in some parts of the U.S., medical marijuana users with a whole range of indications profit immensely from various cannabis strains developed for their special needs. All consumers now have a transparent market, they know what they buy and they get a much better quality of marijuana for their money. They have a better access to knowledge about how to best use marijuana, about the real risks and its potential. They can more freely experiment with marijuana to find out how they can use it for their own purposes. These are necessary conditions for users to become cannasseurs; and only skills and knowledge will lead them to a more meaningful relation with marijuana.

Maybe we should not worry that much about the total number of marijuana consumers and worry more about the number of unhappy people.

 

This article first apeared on my expert blog for Sensi Seeds here:

https://sensiseeds.com/en/blog/marijuana-escapism-and-mind-traveling/

 

See Michael Backes (2014), Cannabis Pharmacy. The Practical Guide to Medical Marijuana, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, New York.

See Sebastian Marincolo (2015), What Hashish Did To Walter Benjamin – Mind-Altering Essays on Marijuana, Khargala Press, Stuttgart.

For a good overview of some studies on that subject matter see http://norml.org/aboutmarijuana/item/marijuana-decriminalization-its-impact-on-use-2.

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Quote: A Marijuana High Can Enhance Core Human Mental Abilities

“A marijuana high can enhance core human mental abilities. It can help you to focus, to remember, to see new patterns, to imagine, to be creative, to introspect, to empathically understand others, and to come to deep insights. If you don’t find this amazing you have lost your sense of wonder. Which, by the way, is something a high can bring back, too.”

Sebastian Marincolo

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What a High Can Do For Sex

“If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.”

Italo Calvino (1923-1985), If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

How can a marijuana high enhance sex – if used with skills and knowledge under favorable circumstances? My short answer is: in many more ways than are usually cited. Even experts strongly underrate the wide spectrum of psychological effects of a marijuana high. I call this spectrum the psychological “effect-bouquet” of the high. The high affects a whole range of cognitive and physiological functions, from episodic memory, attention, and pattern recognition to the alteration of our sense of time, the perception of our body, imagination, creative thinking, and empathic understanding. Each of these functions can play a crucial role in the enhancement of sexual encounters. So, let me give you a short survey of the many ways in which these effects can enhance sex.

The Cannabis High – An Effect-Bouquet

Cannabis has been used for thousands of years for many purposes and many cultures and subcultures worldwide have explored its value for sex throughout history. In the region of the northern Himalayas and India, cannabis has been used since pre-historic times in shamanism. In some lineages of the tantric tradition, cannabis was used to induce a meditative state, to bring one’s mind back to the “here-an-now” of the moment, and to ultimately come to a state of enlightenment through sexual practices. These ancient uses of cannabis by far surpass our current Western understanding both of the potential of the sexual experience itself as well as the potential of a marijuana high for its enhancement.

But even without such tantric knowledge, innumerable contemporary marijuana users have rediscovered various uses of the marijuana high to enhance their sex lives. When high, they focus their attention on the here-and-now and relax; they forget about a previous verbal fight with their partner, about an upcoming exam the next day. In this space, they concentrate on their own body, and on their partner, his or her current needs, longings, desires. Their attention often tends to be redirected to the body.[1] Bodily sensations are intensified and experienced in more depth; the touch of lips during kissing, scents, stroking – everything appears more intense, but also more detailed in perception.

High lovers seem to be separated from the past and future, floating. Time seems to slow down during a high. As Carl Sagan once remarked, this perceptual slowdown of time leads to a prolonged sensation of orgasm, and, I would add, a prolonged sensation of the whole experience of lovemaking.[2]

All of the effects cited so far have been quoted by others when it comes to the positive effects of the high on sex – but these are only the beginning. One of the most important yet often ignored enhancements during a high is described in a tale from the Arabian story collection One Thousand and One Nights, where a stoner obviously “trips” on a large amount of hashish and comes back to his senses in a public bath:

„He opened his eyes and found himself lying on the marge of the cold-water tank, amongst a crowd of people all laughing at him; for his prickle was at point and the napkin had slipped from his middle. So he knew that all this was but a confusion of dreams and an illusion of Hashish (…)”[3]

During a strong high under such a large dosage, cannabis users have often reported “visual trips”; but even for moderate dosages of marijuana, imaginative abilities can become enhanced. Imagination plays a crucial role for sex, but when it comes to the subject of marijuana and sex commentators forget to mention this enhancement during a high.

Furthermore, innumerable marijuana users have described an enhanced ability for  pattern recognition during a high. They discover a rigid pattern in their own walking style, or a disposition for defensive behavior in a chess opponent. During high sex, enhanced pattern recognition can become helpful in many ways. Itcan help to recognize a mood better in a partner’s body language, or to recognize a boring sexual routine one has been going through for a while with one’s partner – which helps to then transcend the routine.

Many users have reported that they become too introspective during sex, which definitely does not help with the experience. Dosage, skills, mood, attitude, and context seem to play a crucial role here. For many others, however, the high not only generates strong feelings of intimacy, but leads to a truly deeper empathic understanding of the other’s character, needs, and wishes, based on various patterns in a partner’s body language, in the tone of what is said, or in facial gestures. This enhancement of empathic under-standing is fundamental to sex, which is like a dance, a form of communication in constant need of new common explorations and fascinating discoveries.

Which brings us to one more fundamental effect of the high, the enhancement of creativity. High lovers often break with routines and become creative during their lovemaking. Additionally, the high can bring an anxiolytic effect, which helps to overcome moral and other inhibitions. This can be a major factor for entering a true energetic sexual flow. As Jim Morrison once said:

“Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it’s usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.”

To summarize, then, there is a whole bouquet of effects during a high which can all be profoundly useful for the enhancement of sex. During sex you experience the richness and uniqueness of various altered states of consciousness which culminate in an orgasm. All of these mind enhancements during a high described above can thoroughly enrich sexual encounters and give a profoundly new meaning to the experience.

The Entourage Effect

Are there other, more direct physiological ways in which marijuana can work as an aphrodisiac? What, exactly, can a cannabis oil do for a woman if applied in her vagina? Despite a lot of anecdotal evidence of the aphrodisiac effects of marijuana, we haven’t really yet begun to research these questions.

If we want to come to a better understanding of how much cannabis can do for sex, we need to further investigate the entourage effect marijuana: cannabis expresses more than 100 cannabinoids, around 200 terpenes, and some flavonoids, which synergistically interact and generate various highs through an “entourage effect”. [4] The unique “effect bouquet” of marijuana described above varies significantly for each strain and depends on its unique composition. Users will have to find which strain works best for them. Meanwhile, some breeders are striving to create specific ‘sex-pot’-strains.

Maybe some Tantric herbalists created the most incredible strains for sex a long time ago. There is pleasurable journey ahead for all of us – a journey that began thousands of years ago.

 

See Marincolo, Sebastián, „The Effects of Marijuana on Body Image Perception“,

http://sensiseeds.com/en/blog/the-eff...

Carl Sagan, (1971) „Mr. X“, in: Grinspoon, Lester, Marijuana Reconsidered, Harvard University Press, p.123-130.

Burton, Richard F. (2013). pp. 92-93. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Vol. 3). London: Forgotten Books. (Original work published 1894)

The entourage effect of cannabis was first mentioned by Ben-Shabat, Shimon (1998). “An entourage effect: inactive endogenous fatty acid glycerol esters enhance 2-arachidonoyl-glycerol cannabinoid activity”. European Journal of Pharmacology 353 (1): 23–31. doi:10.1016/S0014-2999(98)00392-6

 

 

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Interview for Greenflowermedia.com

Gregory Frye from greenflowermedia.com interviewed me recently for his article “Why we need to re-brand the phrase “getting high”. The article was published here.

 

 

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“War on Drugs” – Quote

“There has never been a ‘war on drugs’! In our history we can only see an ongoing conflict amongst various drug users – and producers. In ancient Mexico the use of alcohol was punishable by death, while the ritualistic use of mescaline was highly worshipped. In 17th century Russia, tobacco smokers were threatened with mutilation or decapitation, alcohol was legal. In Prussia, coffee drinking was prohibited to the lower classes, the use of tobacco and alcohol was legal.”

Sebastian Marincolo

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