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According to a ScienceBlogs post titled: “Marijuana and Divergent Thinking”:

“A new paper published in Psychiatry Research sheds some light on this phenomenon, or why smoking weed seems to unleash a stream of loose associations. The study looked at a phenomenon called semantic priming, in which the activation of one word allows us to react more quickly to related words.”

…Interestingly, marijuana seems to induce a state of hyper-priming, in which the reach of semantic priming extends outwards to distantly related concepts.”

This seems to validate what so many artists have been saying through the ages: namely that marijuana sparks creativity by increasing novel associations and connections between seemingly disparate ideas.