Time seems to slow down when you’re high – why does that happen?

“All I can keep in mind actually is that it felt like time had fully stopped,” says James Stone. “It felt as if I’d be caught there endlessly.”

A neuroscientist at King’s School London, Stone is describing a sense that may be very generally reported by individuals after they use hashish: time appears to decelerate. When Stone volunteered for a cannabis research 15 years in the past, he skilled this unusual sense of time dilation firsthand.

The episode stayed with him, and it sparked his curiosity…