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Phendrana on 25 December 2010
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Kasz216 said:
 Phendrana said:
Kasz216 said

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Bolded I agree with.  TV as well has more negatives then positives.  Though I do like me some TV.  You don't think the world would be a better place if less people watched TV?  Most things people want to do are at a net negative. 

Italicized I do not.

Marijuna brings out creativity in the same way cigarettes relax people and alchohol makes people more social.

Most of it is a placebo effect, and the rest is the fact that you've gotten so addicted to the product that you have problems without it purely BECAUSE of your addiction.

You said you've never done drugs, so you really don't have a point of reference to make any claims about how they make you think.

Drugs don't place ideas in your head, but they do allow you to look at problems from a different perspective. This lets you come up with solutions you wouldn't have thought of under sober conditions. These ideas can definitely be called more "imaginative" because they're often less conventional than your normal line of thinking. More out-of-the-box and whatnot.

And alcohol affects brain mechanisms used to regulate impulse control. For someone who's normally reluctant to engage in social interactions, decreased impulse control could allow them to overcome that barrier and be more social. Alcohol is directly (and physically) affecting a mental process that inhibits the person from acting a certain way. That's certainly not placebo.

I've never said I've never done drugs.  I said I don't currently use drugs.  I've done Marijuana before and other things as well.  Stronger things that are actually supposed to "inspire" more.

I don't really have an addictive personality though, so I was able to stop after it got boring and annoying that it's all my friends wanted to do.

 Anyone who thinks it makes them more creative is fooling themselves.  It just makes it harder to think outside the box without the drug... so you attribute the creativity to it.

Sorry, I remember seeing you say you didn't do drugs earlier in the thread and thought you meant in general. Regardless, I have to wholeheartedly disagree with you here. You're making it sound like everyone who does drugs is some kind of addict who can't think clearly unless they're under the influence. 

Drugs can help you think much more abstractly than normal, which is a very important part of thinking creatively. Being creative is thinking about something differently. Drugs force you into thinking differently. I don't do them to try to be creative, but there have been times when I've come up with unique ideas I wouldn't have thought of under normal circumstances.

Please note though, I'm not talking about the kind of person that smokes weed everyday because they insist they need it to be creative. There's a big difference between using something as a tool and using something as a crutch.