We Asked People Who've Never Smoked Weed What They Think it'd Feel Like

"I think it’d be a 'go with the flow' type feeling. I'd be sitting against a wall, my eyes half closed, I'd feel numb and soft like a cloud—maybe I'd be wearing a beanie?"

Pick a drug, any drug, so long as you’ve never tried it, and try to imagine what it’d feel like. What about heroin? What do you imagine that’d be like? Maybe warm and gooey/drooly with a heavier sense of gravity than usual—so basically that scene in Trainspotting where Ewen Mcgregor sinks into the carpet? Or what about magic mushrooms? Let’s assume you’ve never tried mushies—what do you think they'd feel like? Maybe you think they'd feel like becoming a magical elf frolicking between trees with a kind of cutesy yet psychopathic Nintendo music ringing in your ears. That seems about right, right?

But the thing about weed is that basically everyone under the age of 40 has tried it. It’s very rare to find someone who has no idea what weed is like, which presents a similar opportunity for novel descriptions as they try guessing.

So for our amusement, and yours, we asked some people who’ve never smoked weed to describe what they think it’d be like.

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