Marijuana for energy: how cannabis can boost your mood and energize your mind

In this article, we will explore how to use marijuana for energy, we will show you how to use the Jointly app to find the most euphoric strains, and we will discuss products that are designed for this goal like cannabis energy drinks.

What does it look like to use cannabis or CBD to energize and uplift your mind?

It could be a father who takes a few puffs from a dab pen to energize his mind before cleaning the kitchen. Or a schoolteacher who savors the mood-boosting effects of a weed edible on her long afternoon walks home. Or a grandfather who takes a microdose of a 1:1 THC:CBD gummy to energize and uplift his mind so that he can lose himself in play with his grandchildren.

Many people use cannabis or CBD to energize their mind, boost their mood, and feel better in their day-to-day lives. Is cannabis the right choice to help you energize and uplift your mind? Jointly can help you find out.

But first let’s explore what it is known about cannabis, mood, and why weed energizes your mind.

Please note that this article is not discussing the use of cannabis to treat depression or any other medical issue. Any changes to your lifestyle or routine should be discussed with your doctor or licensed healthcare provider.

Does weed boost your mood?

Can weed improve your mood? While cannabis is more often thought of as a hypnotic and sedative, it can have energizing, uplifting, and mood boosting effects. In the mid-1800s, there was a group of Parisian intellectuals called the Club des Hashischins who experimented with hashish and recorded their experiences.

Dr. Jacques-Joseph Moreau, a psychiatrist who was the drug supplier to the group, wrote this passage about his hash experiences: “It is … really happiness which is produced by the hashish…The hashish eater is happy, not like the gourmand or the famished man when satisfying his appetite, but like him who hears tidings which fill him with joy, like the miser counting his treasures, the gambler who is successful at play, or the ambitious man who is intoxicated with success.” This type of euphoric feeling is common to cannabis users, so weed can definitely boost your mood in the right conditions. But you can also use weed to relieve stress or use marijuana to sleep better at night. How can you use marijuana for energy when it also helps you sleep, relax, and relieve stress?

Marijuana for energy: why does weed energize and uplift your mind?

Weed can energize and uplift your mind because of the way the endocannabinoid system (ECS) interacts with mood and stress. The ECS is a “ubiquitous system that provides homeostatic balance to the nervous and immune systems, as well as many other organ systems.” The ECS is composed of the endogenous ligands (AEA and 2-AG) also known as endocannabinoids, their receptors (CB1 and CB2), and the enzymes that degrade and recycle the ligands. Ligands and receptors are like keys and locks. When the ligand binds to the receptor, it produces a signal in the cell. 

The ECS interacts with the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) and the dopamine system to “establish balance between distress and well-being.” The HPA axis plays an integral role in our stress response and describes the relationship between the endocrine system and the central nervous system when an organism is exposed to stress. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that plays an important role in regulating movement and mood. Higher than normal levels of dopamine can lead to “euphoria, bliss, and enhanced motivation and concentration.” THC is known to stimulate dopamine release in the brain. This flood of dopamine energizes and uplifts your mind. While THC may uplift your mind, more is not always better. Animal studies found that THC exhibited anti-depressant effects in a U-shaped curve. The researchers tested the animals with 1.25mg/kg, 2.5mg/kg, 5mg/kg of THC while subjecting them to an animal model of depression. They found that only 2.5mg/kg exhibited antidepressant-like effects, while the lower and higher doses did not. If you want to use THC to energize and uplift your mind, use the Jointly app to find the highest rated products, and then microdose and titrate up until you find your minimum effective dose.

Using CBD for energy

Most people think of CBD as something that relaxes you, but this compound has a variety of effects that make it well-suited for uplifting and energizing your mind. For example, many people have found that CBD is the perfect replacement for a cup of coffee because CBD gives you energy but does not keep you up at night. CBD has wake promoting properties and animal studies suggest that CBD could be used to treat excessive daytime sleepiness in the future. In addition to using CBD for energy, this non-intoxicating cannabinoid can boost your mood and uplift your mind by acting on your ECS and your serotonin system, and by promoting neuroplasticity. Please note that we are not suggesting that CBD should be used as a treatment for depression.

What is the best weed strain for uplifting and energizing your mind?

Is there any scientific basis for why one cannabis strain might uplift your mind better than another? For example, what is the best Sativa strain for energy? Should you choose strains that have the terpene limonene? What is the most energetic marijuana strain? What is the most euphoric strain? Cannabis contains many different chemical compounds including hundreds of cannabinoids, terpenes, and flavonoids. Many of these chemical compounds exert distinct biological effects. As a result, there may be weed strains or product types that are better suited to boosting your mood or energizing your mind than others. The best way to find the most euphoric weed strain is to try different cannabis strains from different brands, record your experiences on the Jointly app, and track how each strain or product made you feel. For help choosing the best weed strain, check out our article Why Jointly Is Better than a Strain Finder. In that article, you will learn what strain names really mean, how to find the most euphoric strains, and how to use Jointly to discover the highest rated products in your area.

Find weed products to energize and uplift your mind

Want to find weed products to uplift or energize your mind? Cannabis companies have created a wide variety of products designed to help you achieve this goal: cannabis energy drinks, CBD hemp energy drinks, dab pens made from energetic marijuana strains, CBD-infused coffees, and more. But how do you know if any of these products work the way they are supposed to? Jointly’s Product Finder feature allows you to look up legal, licensed cannabis and CBD products in your state based on your wellness goals. Select Energize and Uplift and see how other users like you rated a product on a scale from 1-10, based on how well it helped them stimulate their appetite. You can filter your Product Finder results to show you the highest rated cannabis products for the goal Energize and Uplift.

How to use CBD or marijuana for energy

Jointly is a cannabis wellness app that teaches you how to achieve your wellness goals with cannabis and CBD. If you want to use cannabis to energize your mind, use the Jointly app to find the best products for Uplift and Energize, and then record your cannabis experiences in the app so that you can track and optimize the 15 factors that can impact your weed experience. These 15 factors include your dose, the environment in which you consume cannabis, who you are with when you ingest, how hydrated you are, the quality of your diet, how much sleep you got last night, and more. For example, your mood and energy levels are dictated by a variety of factors from the sleep you got last night, to the foods you ate that day, to how stressed you are feeling. Perhaps you will discover that you experience the most energizing effect from cannabis when you vaporize weed after a workout.

Find top-rated products for your goals 

Jointly is a cannabis discovery app that makes it easy to find and match with the best cannabis and CBD products for your goals. Your matches are calculated from the real product ratings and experiences of hundreds of thousands of people using the Jointly app.

If you're ready to discover new products and reach your goals, download the Jointly app today on the App Store or Google Play, or explore your matches on the Jointly website.   

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Whether you want to improve sleep, relieve daily stress, or just relax and refresh, Jointly can help you reach your goals with cannabis.  

With Jointly, match with top-rated products, and build lists of your favorites to save, share, and bring to your local dispensary to help guide your shopping experience.  

Jointly also helps you track your cannabis experiences through reflections that help you understand what’s working, and what’s not. In fact, the quality of your diet, how much you slept, who you’re with, and the time of day are just some of the factors that can impact your experiences.  

So if you're ready to enjoy your perfect cannabis experience, download the Jointly app today on the App Store or Google Play, or explore your matches on the Jointly website. Discovery awaits.