Why do creative people smoke weed

There is different types of strain when it comes to marijuana, and also the thc levels are different. I do graphic design and make some music so i have my days where smoking actually had helped me , creative wise. As your own work amply demonstrates, the general public is the best judge of nonsense. I took advantage of a three-day weekend declared by my employers to escape to the Noosa of Thailand, Hua Hin.

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I discovered my creativity and my love for writing, after I tried marijuana in high school. It was strange. I would smoke then write a poem, or write a short story. This continued into college as I would smoke and do my homework. It only lasted a year and I got an important job where I met my husband to be, and we moved in together he didn't smoke pot, but he drank beer like it was going out of style.

In short, I quit pot, he quit drinking at least I thought he did, but between his affairs and drinking I was the last one to know. Then I got pregnant and instinctively knew I would be a single parent. I was a single Mom for 11 years, and on my son's 11th birthday was the day I met the man I should have married so long ago.

However, we've been together 13 years and married for 7 years. Before I met my husband, I went back to marijuana and to try my hand at writing, since I just got my first desktop computer. I auditioned with my work to write for an actress, Vanessa Marcil. I would smoke, write my column and make my boss very happy. I started another project - an E Newsletter on aol about trivia. I had over subscribers and it was fun, but a lot of work.

Now, I no longer just smoke marijuana for creativity, I smoke it for medicinal purposes and just got my mmj card. I usually get Critical Kush, in the Indicus family.. Very happy girl. I've got such an internal conflict going on about this - see, I'm a writing musician, creating is what I DO - and about two months ago I quit smoking weed because of money issues and other weed related issues. And I'm gonna be totally honest, in those same two months I've only written around four songs.

That's around a third of my normal creative output. I'm not one for giving credit to coincidence, but at the same time there must be some link.

Maybe one little joint to find out wouldn't hurt To me it comes down to one thing, no one has the right to control another persons decision to try or use pot. End of discussion, opinions are just that your's and my opinions. In the end the decision is for each to make without having to be scrutinized or explain themselves.

That is why are government has become so blotted with laws that are self serving. They are not for the greater good, but for ones own purposes. Some people feel they have to save the world, but each in the end will evolve at their own pace and no one can speed that up. When you become evolved enough you will realize that you and you alone know what is in your best interest and highest good. What may be good for you at any given moment may be detrimental to anthers evolvement.

I'm 50 years old know and my views on many things have changed the more I learn and grow. I have a completely different view on pot than i had just 3 weeks ago. I wonder … how did you all get to this article? What were you looking for in ''google search''? Interesting article. Ive often wondered if weed makes one more creative so it is cool to see a discussion on the topic. I cant add any definitive proof to what has been said, but I can offer some further anecdotal evidence through my personal experience.

I am a daily smoker by choice and I have been for over 15 years and I use it because it is a very relaxing buzz, which is not the feeling I get after having a few beer or drinks of liquor. Interestingly enough, the same amount of MJ gets me high every time so escalation of my habit is not an issue like hard drugs or alcohol, which some people might think is the case. I started smoking in my early 20s for the enjoyment of the buzz, because I was never a fan of the alcohol buzz.

I actually noticed right away that it helped improve my focus. When high I find a state of calm like no other, no external problems are flashing through my head, I'm not worried about paying bills, work stress or worrying about things I have no control over, I just exist and through that existence there was a lack of other "noise" clogging up my ability to focus and be creative.

It would be just as it says in the article, what ever I was doing or thinking just flows through me. I can use the game of pool as an example. I played competitively and for money, and there is a lot of second guessing and unnecessary thinking about mechanics etc ask any amateur golfer what that is like lol. This noise can and does get in the way of performance. Conversely, when high, all that noise would go away, and I could just play. I remember seeing an mri of a professional athlete doing his sport vs.

Where as the average joes mind was lit up like a christmas tree. This is very telling for me because as we know, when you repeat actions over and over you develop "muscle memory" which enables you to not have to consciously think about an action to do it.

The pro doesnt have to think about technique or mechanics, they just let the body take over. As an athlete, I found I always performed better when my mind wasn't thinking about anything in particular, I feel that focus in this manner, is just like creativity. If the mind is cluttered with unnecessary thoughts it will impede creativity, however, if MJ helps turn off that noise, we now have removed the resistance, and the thought process is more clear and allows for increasingly creative thinking.

It will be interesting to see all the research that will be going into these types of studies in the future now that we have all moved past prohibition, the 40 year waste of money! You used the spider's web experiment for an argument against replacing office coffee with cannabis. Did you see the caffeine webs?

They barely even resembled webs. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline. Personally speaking, unless I am practised in my craft and know what I am doing I cannot gain much from smoking weed.

I end up disjointed and make little or no progress. However, I have found that when I have the basis of a project laid down already a logo design would be a good example I can find a way to resolve the creative rut I am in by smoking weed and looking at it again, with a fresh perspective.

So what if I believe like yall do.. What would i need to join yall's marketing team? Better yet what is yalls mission? I don't smoke weed at work never, but after a hard days work it doesn't just relax me it opens my mind to whole new levels of thinking, and that get up and do something practical which does not happen if I don't get high. Wonderful, it's just an reflection of eternity, the power of the plant is magical, not a miracle to everyone, but therefor it depends on your own stance, your prejudice against any mind altering substance.

Well, only open minded curious people will find a glue within it others will stand up, clean the dust out of their clothes and go their way. The real value it teaches you, take care about yourself, feel free to live or die. Life is precious and the power of the plant is holy, respectless people will be kicked hard by it, cause it is unconditional love which hits them.

The thing is, you can't just study Cannabis, every strain has different effect and some will enhance creativity sativa and some will have less of an impact on it indica All Cannabis studies I have seen, and I have seen a lot, do not take this into consideration and therefore get wrong results.

It's simple to explain if you've done it enough and have your sea legs. It's an enhancer. So if you're stupid it enhances the stupidity, if you're smart it makes you smarter. It relies on prior experiences for it effects. So kids need to steer clear, they have no real experience.

I am a 64 year old Vietnam veteran and I hate pills and pharmacy medicine. Marijuana keeps me sane, helps me to articulate my thoughts and has probably saved me from death from cancer. Prohibition will be remembered as the biggest deception by governments since Gallileo told us the Earth was not flat.

I am a regular pot smoker and I have to say, you can't really compare the deep level of creativity. Anyone can create something with any idea - but weed tends to line up just the best tit bits of an idea such that the whole picture is just Personally I get most of these ideas but surprisingly they are all themed as " Thats just me.

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I wouldn't trade some of those experiences for anything. Some of my very best writing and art have come from places I never would have found without smoking. That said, I'm an adult with responsibilites and I acknowledge that everything has a price and that any drug must be used carefully. So I do. But what this drug is capable of giving to the human brain is priceless.

Hey Anonymous, the article I found doesn't delve too much into what happened after the drugs wore off or any of the long term effects. If you track down the study as originally published, you may get more information. For now, here is the article I pulled from:. I've been smoking daily, heavily for about 20 years. I write poetry and philosophy. Marijuana is absolutely a gateway drug- a gateway to higher consciousness and creativity. I cordially invite anyone doing research on this miracle drug to use me as a test subject.

I will defy a lot of the stereotypes people associate with this plant. It doesn't make me hungry or dumb- quite the opposite. I find it is a stimulant to intellectual and physical activity. Have a great day! It's good to be alive! I find your article interesting. I have one question. You say that spiders were drugged" What were the web spinning result of the spiders, who had been subjected THC, once the effects of the drug had completely worn off?

I'm a digital 3D artist. My friend's band is called Weed. He can do his thing stoned, but mine's too complicated. Its complexity causes me to zone out, which is when ideas from ideas start sprouting like fractals. With weed my mind's mostly just static snow or lots of little TVs on at the same time. Talk is fun and really good, but not often useful. Maybe I'd get useful ideas from grass if we recorded our talks.

Oh, wait, BTDT. Try it yourself and see what happens. I Think if smoking weed helps people health why not let them smoke it!!! Any how i never seem anyone get crazy smoking weed as i do Drinking!! Hey whats wrong with a little weed high sometime come on!! Be Honest. If pot releases dopamine where does that leave the person with PD?

Can one release what one does not have? Does that make persons with PD less creative? I'm just interested, that's all.

Regarding pot and airline pilots How about one you in which you survive with minimum wait lines and your luggage and then we'll worry about the song and dance. Wow, thanks for all the comments guys! M - You bring up some really interesting points.

Like we said in the blog, creativity is a really difficult thing to define. It's hard to say if creativity means good ideas, lots of ideas, commercially popular ideas, or something else entirely. I'm not sure that the ratio of bad ideas to good ideas is that important, though. Part of the effect of marijuana is helping thoughts and feelings flow through you more easily. It's true that you might wind up with a lot more crap ideas this way, but when your usual filters are on, you might not get as far as you need to to find that one great idea.

It depends on what you're going for. If you're on a deadline, and you need efficiency in your brainstorming, then you're probably right that weed might not be all that helpful. But for someone working at their own pace, and with lower stakes, it may not matter how much longer it takes or how many horrible ideas they have to wade through.

Thanks for all the insight everyone. Keep it coming! I wouldn't use it. I am creative enough, and I really need to have my head together to function. Besides, it is dangerous to drive under that condition. With respect to the health concerns regarding smoking cannabis, the first alternative would be vaporizing.

Prior to making that decision, I would suggest checking out the results of Dr. Donald Tashkin's 30 year pulmonary study. His results were also mirrored in the more recently released results of a study in Alabama. As far as the NASA spider study reference, I would have to check the information before reaching an opinion. To unpack this question, I turned to an expert in the science of cannabis, Lewis Nelson, chair of the department of emergency medicine and chief of the division of medical toxicology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

As with many psychoactive substances, the answer is, it depends. This makes sense, Nelson explains. Creativity may seem like a slippery, amorphous quality, but scientists can measure it objectively in various ways.

For instance, they can count the number of solutions someone came up with to a problem, a reflection of their level of divergent thinking, which is often associated with creativity, Nelson explains. But he adds that we need to interpret the findings with the caveat that you can pretty much massage the data to show anything you want, based on how you frame the study question and run the statistics.

Marijuana users are more likely to have creative personality traits, a new study suggests. Researchers from Washington State University conducted a study on cannabis users and non-users. Those who smoke cannabis self-reported higher levels of artistic creativity than non-users, however they did not appear to have produced more creative works or achievements.

The study also revealed that cannabis users were more likely to be extroverted and more open to new experiences. And cannabis users performed better in convergent thinking tests, this meaning they have a higher ability to solve problems by bringing together various ideas to find a single optimum solution.

And if so, is this because cannabis use makes them more creative, or is something else causing differences in creativity between users and non-users?