Drugs and Thought

[evolvedForm]

Does anyone else here notice the benefits of marijuana (or some other drug) for deep thought? Weed lets me tap into my psyche pretty hard, and I become almost schizophrenic as I uncontrollably pinpoint the various voices in my head. Not only that, but if I read a book or watch a movie while high, my thoughts burst in rapid succession. They are usually right-brained, creative, and intuitive, as opposed to logical.

As of now, I write down my thoughts while high, and they are interesting but require filling out (which I'm too impatient to do while stoned). As far as I know, Carl Sagan smoked a lot of pot, and an anonymous article - thought to be his - praised its benefits. Any other intellectuals (here or famous) use drugs to unleash brain power? Do you find anything wrong with it?

[vhawk01]

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Does anyone else here notice the benefits of marijuana (or some other drug) for deep thought? Weed lets me tap into my psyche pretty hard, and I become almost schizophrenic as I uncontrollably pinpoint the various voices in my head. Not only that, but if I read a book or watch a movie while high, my thoughts burst in rapid succession. They are usually right-brained, creative, and intuitive, as opposed to logical.

As of now, I write down my thoughts while high, and they are interesting but require filling out (which I'm too impatient to do while stoned). As far as I know, Carl Sagan smoked a lot of pot, and an anonymous article - thought to be his - praised its benefits. Any other intellectuals (here or famous) use drugs to unleash brain power? Do you find anything wrong with it?

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I just get really dizzy and sick. But I'm a weed n00b, so who knows.

[madnak]

It's great if you can sort out the pure fluff from the good stuff. Drugs can help a lot with inspiration. Also I think the context that altered states of consciousness provide can be valuable in ways that are hard to predict.

[getajob]

i saw a documentary about lsd where some guy won the nobel prize for finding a new way to... decode? DNA... it had something to do with DNA research, and it sounded sounded like a significant breakthrough in his field. he claimed to have discovered the idea while on lsd, visualizing a new way to look at problem.

[BluffTHIS!]

How surprising that some of the most liberal and irrelgious posters in this forum are druggies. Do you also think being high helps you to play poker better? What about driving a car?

[Alex-db]

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How surprising that some of the most liberal and irrelgious posters in this forum are druggies. Do you also think being high helps you to play poker better? What about driving a car?

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Your post sounds unneccesarily negative. Sleeping is very beneficial but being asleep doesn't help driving or playing poker, they can/should be exclusive things.

[BluffTHIS!]

Apples and oranges. Non-narcoleptic people don't try to play poker or drive while asleep.

[madnak]

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Apples and oranges. Non-narcoleptic people don't try to play poker or drive while asleep.

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Uh, and who says we try to play poker or drive while on drugs?

[BluffTHIS!]

madnak,

Search the archives of the politics and psychology forums and you will find not only instances of both, but defenses of both by drug users.

[evolvedForm]

Doing drugs once in a while to experience an altered state of consciousness is merely indicative of intellectual curiosity. In the 60s and 70s it was not uncommon for academics to use drugs, even drugs as hard as LSD (Foucault described LSD as one of the best experiences of his life). To never even try marijuana can be, in my opinion, a sign of cowardice - that or a sign of subservience to authoritative misinformation, a characteristic commonly found in the religious.