Meditating With Cannabis: A Guide for Beginners

Meditation is a technique for training the mind, to eliminate negative thoughts and embrace the positive. It aims to make you relax and calm as you concentrate on one aspect of your life and how you can improve it.

Besides, meditation helps to manage stress levels 60% of the time and reduces the risk of heart diseases by 87%.

Similarly, marijuana offers excellent calming and relaxing effects that can go well with meditation.

Cannabis will give you the results you desire with better focus when meditating. Combining marijuana and meditation is becoming increasingly popular. As a beginner, starting cannabis meditation can be a little confusing. But in this guide, we provide you with crucial tips to help you in this spiritual practice.

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Top 10 Visionaries Who Experimented With Mind-Altering Drugs

Is intelligence related to an increased likelihood of recreational drug use? 

It's an interesting hypothesis, and one that's been gaining momentum in recent years.

If a definitive link between intellectual capacity and drug use does exist, it will likely be some time before anyone establishes one. 

Having said that, this much is for certain: history has more than its fair share of experimenting experimentalists. 

Let's meet 10 of history's most influential scientific and technological visionaries, along with their drugs of choice.

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Ganja Yoga: Marijuana plus Meditation

By David Silverberg / Globe and Mail

They chat away breezily between vaporizer tokes, sometimes veering off into conspiracy theories about the government or discussions of the healthiest way to smoke marijuana. Then the 12 yoga lovers extend their arms and breathe deeply. Yoga mats cover the floor. A guitarist strums chords as incense weaves its tendrils across the room.

As the light haze of pot smoke dissipates in the downtown Toronto living room, the ganja yoga session begins.

“When you’re high, you can focus better on your breath,” says Dee Dussault, who runs a monthly session of “cannabis-enhanced yoga” at her home dubbed Follow Your Bliss.

She says smoking marijuana in small doses before a yoga class also makes students more receptive to the poses and philosophies behind the activities. “For some people, it makes them uninhibited and open to the idea of the heart chakra, for example.”

Heart chakras aside, ganja yoga has the THC whiff of being the latest yoga fad, following on the heels of hot yoga, circus yoga, pre- and postnatal yoga, acro yoga (acrobatics), even hip-hop yoga. While cannabis has been deeply entwined with spiritualism over the centuries, some yoga practitioners say that a pure body is ideal for the exercise and that smoking pot could cause an unwieldy imbalance. As one online-forum commenter opined: “Why should we try to purify our body and soul through yoga if we later intoxicate it again with marijuana or other substances?”

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