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I thought that cannabis enhances the imagination, boosts the creativity and induces out of the box thinking up until I was late to a party. When I arrived, I wa
by mrtksn 5y ago
I thought that cannabis enhances the imagination, boosts the creativity and induces out of the box thinking up until I was late to a party. When I arrived, I was sober when everyone else was high and I couldn't bear the stupidity of those normally intelligent people. That's when I stop using the substance.
I'm more inclined to believe that Ballmer Peak[0] is a real thing and I do get productive, motivated and creative when I'm slightly drunk.
Back in the university, one night when I was lonely and bored I just got enough drunk to code a Facebook app that will give invitations to invite-only shopping startup using my referral. By the time the sunlight hit me, I was finished reverse engineering their invite system, write a code that will generate the invite, design the UI where people will request the invite, write the copy that promotes it, integrate all that into Facebook app(at that time FB was cool), post it to the social media. Not the biggest engineering or creative challenge but I was first at it.
When I woke up, my app was all over the social media, the founder had me added as a friend and invited me to their office. Lifted my max invitations limit and I made quite substantial(for a student)referral bonus and kept spending it for years to come.
https://xkcd.com/323/ https://xkcd.com/323/
- __float 5y agoI can imagine it's a super different experience to be (probably very) high at a party, and to be a little stoned while working alone on a programming task. (Compare someone who's had 1 beer, and someone at a party doing shots in the kitchen :p) There's also the possibility that different people are affected differently, and maybe you just prefer alcohol to marijuana ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- mrtksn 5y agoIt could be, it's just that I'm yet to see someone fun and intelligent when Iim sober and they are high on cannabis(those who are high think that they are, of course). Slightly drunk people tend to be fun and maybe not exactly more intelligent than the sober but they tend to go out of their comfort zone which enables them to entertain ideas that they normally wouldn't do. There are many stories about how people invent things when slightly drunk at the bar and write it down on a napkin.
- ModernMech 5y ago> yet to see someone fun and intelligent when Iim sober and they are high on cannabis I've gotta ask: how do you know you haven't yet? Not everyone who is high loves to announce it to the world.
- mrtksn 5y agoYou can usually tell from the smell
- SauciestGNU 5y agoThat was more true prior to legalization. Now with edibles and cartridges and vaporizers you might never know if the person you're talking to is zooted to Mars or not.
- mrtksn 5y agoIt's not right to assume that it's legalised everywhere.
- ModernMech 5y agoEven if it’s not legalized everywhere, I can 100% guarantee you that edibles and vapes are available for purchase in your local community. There isn’t even a question about that.
- tata71 5y agoOh, so you believe all people using cannabis are the ones lighting it on fire/probably using tobacco, at the same time? Common misconception. Find vaporization people!