Cannabinoids regulate many physiological processes in the human body, from appetite to mood to sleep cycles and even memory. One of the things a flush of phytocannabinoids does to the brain is it alters memory associations. The most concise I can be about the relationship with memory and learning is stimulus X produces memory Y. Once receptors in our brains are exposed to a rush of phytocannabinoids, there's some physiological process that alters recording of memories. This is the essence of Cathy O'Brien's admissions about Cannabis affecting "mind-control techniques". In essence, mind-control techniques, we'll call them, hijack the memory process: Have you ever watched the Colbert Report or Last Week Tonight? They use a very refined process. A premise is offered and very briefly afterward, it's followed by a comedic quip. Nearly as soon as it's over, the next bullet point is addressed. Without being too verbose, it's a input and resolution cycle that takes over the learning center of our brain and injects short term memory atrophy in order to condition attitudes against the premise. Methods like this are extremely common these days. Cannabis in some way alters processes like this, helping one overcome what we're calling "mind-control techniques". Cathy O'Brien isn't the only person to note this phenomenon.