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What Happens if You Smoke Pot All Day Every Day?

Marijuana’s lesser-known effects on creativity, productivity, memory and cognition

Robert Roy Britt
9 min readApr 12, 2021

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Seth Rogen, the highly productive comedian, writer, actor, director, producer, ceramic artist and now entrepreneur, smokes a lot of pot. “I smoke weed all day every day,” Rogen said recently on Jimmy Kimmel Live. “It is 100% intrinsic to my functionality and my life.” Amid all the self-deprecating humor and tangential streams of consciousness, the co-creative force behind such films as “Superbad” and “Pineapple Express” emphasized how rigorously he has tested each strain of marijuana sold by his new cannabis company.

Toward the end of the interview, the obvious question finally came up:

Kimmel: “Are you high right now?

Rogen: “Yeah. I’m high all the time.”

The obvious next question, from a writer who gets nothing done while high: Seriously, dude?!

Consequences of constant cannabis consumption

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Robert Roy Britt

Editor of Wise & Well on Medium + the Writer's Guide at writersguide.substack.com. Author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: amazon.com/dp/B0BJBYFQCB