[demonrail666]

hahaha

[gmku]

Rhiaaaanon...

[Dr. Eugene Felikson]

Being constantly high > Being constantly drunk

I would never be able to go through an entire day drunk. I would feel sloppy, inefficient, and most likely even more sick to my stomach than usual (I have one of those Cobain-like stomach ailments, which ironically marijuana does seem to numb).

But I'm pretty high most of the time, and it's rare that I go a day without smoking at least once. Despite that fact, I'm easily one of the sharpest, and most productive kids I know.

While high, I find it far easier to focus on important things without being distracted, and am able to digest heavier foods without throwing up. It also reduces my social anxiety, and seems to improve the creativity of my wit, when shootin' shit with friends.

Does anyone here also feel as if smoking weed directly stimulates their creativity?


"It is a sad commentary on the state of modern medicine -- and US drug policy -- that we still need 'proof' of something that medicine has known for 5,000 years. [...]

Marijuana is effective at relieving nausea and vomiting, spasticity, appetite loss, certain types of pain, and other debilitating symptoms. And it is extraordinarily safe -- safer than most medicines prescribed every day. If marijuana were a new discovery rather than a well-known substance carrying cultural and political baggage, it would be hailed as a wonder drug."

Mar. 1, 2007 - Lester Grinspoon, MD, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by Dr. Eugene Felikson

But I'm pretty high most of the time, and it's rare that I go a day without smoking at least once. Despite that fact, I'm easily one of the sharpest, and most productive kids I know.

While high, I find it far easier to focus on important things without being distracted, and am able to digest heavier foods without throwing up. It also reduces my social anxiety, and seems to improve the creativity of my wit, when shootin' shit with friends.

I tend to agree with all of that. i wouldn't want to be high at work and I find it entirely distracting when I'm trying to read. More generally though, I think it's a far more productive drug than alcohol, which tends to leave me either too stupid or sentimental to do anything other than sleep or listen to old Hank Williams records.

[gmku]

To each his own. Marijuana leaves me feeling stupid and sluggish. The "creative" ideas I think I have when I'm high turn out to be laughable when I review them later.

On the other hand, I don't "use" alcohol to feel more creative--or to feel any special kind of way. I don't even use it for the "high" or "drunk" because I don't drink enough to get sloppy drunk, except on occasion (and it has to be something special like a birthday or holiday celebration). Largely I drink for the taste--which is why I can't drink any old piss beer like Bud or Miller. If I can't drink a good American craft beer, I won't drink any beer. It's also why I like drinking wine on occasion. I like the tastes of certain wines. And I like how wines and beers go with certain kinds of foods and all that. It's much more of a "gourmet/taste" thing than a feeling of needing to be drunk or high.

[NaiveMelody]

Pot makes me feel stupid and sluggish too.

I enjoy drinking, but I am one who would enjoy a drink after her work day.

[gmku]

I drink almost every day after work. Not to excess, but one or two beers, or one or two glasses of wine, and always with my meal. For me it enhances the meal, is part of the meal.

[demonrail666]

I definitely don't rely on either weed or drink to be creative, I just find one less debilitating than the other. Weed tends to affect my concentration (focusing it but usually to the extent of over thinking) while alcohol affects my emotions making me quite prone to over-passionate, grandiose statements - invariably about either Country music or Heavy Metal bands from the early 80s.

[Dr. Eugene Felikson]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

I definitely don't rely on either weed or drink to be creative, I just find one less debilitating than the other. .

I wouldn't say it's a reliance, just moreso an aid. I prefer the way my imagination breathes when I'm baked.

I enjoy fine(er) wines with meals, especially Italian dishes. Otherwise, I'd rather just drink a couple bottles of Boone's Farm (Blue Hawaiian specifically).

Out of pure curiosity, gmku...what is your opinion on cranberry juice + vodka?

[gmku]

Yuck.

[Dr. Eugene Felikson]

Is that due to a distaste of cranberry juice, vodka, or both?

[NaiveMelody]

Originally Posted by Dr. Eugene Felikson

Is that due to a distaste of cranberry juice, vodka, or both?

Cape Cods are fine in my book. Of course, I like Cranberry juice.

[gmku]

Originally Posted by Dr. Eugene Felikson

Is that due to a distaste of cranberry juice, vodka, or both?

Yeah, both. I generally don't like hard alcohol, though. It's too much like just drinking to get drunk.

[Dr. Eugene Felikson]

The worst liquor my taste buds have ever encountered is Gin. Shit tastes like pine needles.

[gmku]

Yeah, I don't get gin or vodka. Or most of the other stuff. I was making Long Island Ice Teas for a while last summer though. Those were tasty. But they got me wasted way too fast.