Marijuana Could Make Music More Enjoyable, new study finds

Toronto Metropolitan University published new research indicating that marijuana can make music more enjoyable compared to non-users as weed could make music sound even better while uplifting your mind

For their study titled “Exploring the interaction between cannabis, hearing, and music,” the Canadian institution’s scholars had 104 participants complete an online questionnaire. Fifteen select respondees were then chosen to complete a more extensive hour-long interview. They were recruited at the university and through flyers at multiple dispensaries in the Toronto area.

Half of the respondents described having better hearing sensitivity after consuming marijuana than while sober. Furthermore, 60% enjoy a distinct impact on their hearing generally, while 18 percent reported worse hearing sensitivity and 32 percent reported no difference at all.

“When I’m not high, I just don’t pay enough attention to the music, it’s like…background noise,” one participant said. “Compared to when I am high…it’s like that’s the only thing I am focused on.” Said responders

Participants also reported “feelings of absorption or immersion in the music that was intensified while high,” the study says.

“If I’m sober, I don’t just listen to music and not do anything else,” one said. “But when I’m high, I can definitely lie down and listen to music for awhile.”

“I’m able to connect different things that I wouldn’t normally connect [when sober]. For music that would be scales, rhythm patterns, harmonies and how these coaligned together,” one participant said. “I found the ability to critically think through cannabis and whether this was an A major scale? Or what kind of rhythms were they playing.”

However listening to music was also the most popularly selected activity that people said they did while high, at 45 percent, compared to videos (38 percent), podcasts (9 percent), silence (4 percent), radio segments (2 percent) or other activities (2 percent)

Data origin at mugglehead, marijuanamoment