Why Music Sounds So Good When You’re High — PILGRIM SOUL

Cannabis and music go together like salted butter and warm bread. Whether it’s a blatantly obvious cannabis-centric bop like Afrojack’s “Because I Got High” or something more subtle like the cannabis inspired Beatles’ song, “Got to Get You Into my Life,” there is an evident connection between the two. But why? Some may think cannabis and music are simply integral to ‘stoner culture,’ but it’s actually much more complicated than that.

The link between music and cannabis might seem incidental but years of research are revealing cannabis’ scientific ability to enhance creativity. Dr. Jörg Fachner explained to Vice Magazine, “[Marijuana] works like a psycho-acoustic enhancer. That means you are more able to absorb, to focus and to have a broader spectrum [musically]. It doesn’t change the music; it doesn’t change the ear functioning. It changes the way we perceive music,” when asked what cannabis is doing to our brain. He continues on by illuminating cannabis’ ability to refocus its users’ attention to the current moment by changing their perception of time. According to Dr. Fachner, listening to music is a “time process,” therefore, it becomes ethereal for both artists and listeners while high.

Similarly, a study conducted in the 1970s found that cannabis not only enhanced an individual’s ability to hear sounds around 6000Hz…