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It's possible that people gravitate towards different drugs in a way that makes the users of any given drug a non-representative sample. If I use myself as exa
by vlehto 9y ago
It's possible that people gravitate towards different drugs in a way that makes the users of any given drug a non-representative sample.
If I use myself as example. I don't use any psychedelics because I'm completely satisfied with my level of creativity. As a result it's possible that we completely lack data on how psychedelics mingle with naturally high creativity.
I also don't use weed, because it just simply makes me uncomfortable. That could be my brain protecting me from weed, as I may have strong tendency to go completely insane with prolonged use.
Those are just anecdotal speculations to illustrate a point. I'm not really claiming that they are any sort of facts.
- coldtea 9y ago>If I use myself as example. I don't use any psychedelics because I'm completely satisfied with my level of creativity. As a result it's possible that we completely lack data on how psychedelics mingle with naturally high creativity. Given that tons of (already very creative) musicians, painters, writers, etc have tried and used them, I really doubt this...
- vlehto 9y agoYou don't need to be creative to sing or play. You need to be creative to compose. Do we actually know that many creative musicians, writers etc. were creative before using? I'd imagine it's really tricky to track down the starting dates of drug use. Or when someone started composing for that matter. But yeah, that was just to illustrate the point anyhow. And the point is that people self select heavily on which drugs they use. So the user group of any drug is not representative sample.