We’re built to look for, discern and process patterns and what they mean. However accurate it is, autistic people are usually portrayed as being gifted with complex systems, numbers and structures (think of the Rain Man-esque Vegas card-counting cliché).

The ultra-connectivity of our modern society is causing a wholesale shift in the way we retain information in our heads. Where most of history up until this point has been a process of wielding tools to remember things for us (everything from scratches on papyrus to the PC), we’re now entering an age where we don’t really have to remember anything.

Whether marijuana is harmful or beneficial for the brain is unclear. Although scientific studies of cannabis and its effects seem to pop up daily, many of them tend to be inconclusive or in need of further evaluation