text: Marijuana is classified as a depressant.  This is an oversimplification.  It has many depressant effects, like the relaxation you refer to, but it also stimulates the brain's frontal lobes, where "executive thought," or "higher order processing," occurs.  This means that the area of your brain where you do most of the thinking that you're aware of is stimulated, so you're going to have more thoughts than usual flowing around up there.  Some people are mentally strong enough to use these thoughts constructively, and we call this "being creative."  Some people cannot control their thoughts, and we call this "being paranoid."  Some people can usually control their heads, but in certain situations, cannot.  So the subjective experience is different for every person, every time.  \n\nI had a creative writing teacher once who discounted all drug stories.  "You don't really know if that's insight, you were just high, and that was just a drug thought," she would say.  She was completely wrong.  You get to take credit for every positive thing you do on drugs, just as you are responsible for every mistake you make, high or sober, as if it makes a difference.