(May 2, 2013 at 5:22 pm)paulpablo Wrote: Also it annoys me when people make claims about marijuana or other hallucinogens increasing skills in some vague way, I smoked it for nearly 10 years, a lot. Not once did I or anyone I knew ever do anything like smoke weed before an athletics event or mentally challenging event in anyway shape or form. And I never once observed any symptoms from someone who smoked weed apart from lethargy, slight giddiness and hunger.
I agree that cannabis can have a negative impact on a person; I was addicted to it for seven years and it had a hugely negative impact on my life (although I was convinced it was helping me). I have not smoked it for 6 years, and will not touch it ever again. I do, however, strongly disagree with you about other psychedelics like LSD or mescaline. Some of these drugs absolutely do possess the capacity to enhance your critical thinking skills, especially LSD. There have been academic studies on how LSD has the potential to hugely enhance a person's ability to engage in abstract conceptual analysis. There is a rumor that Francis Crick was under the influence of LSD when he theorised the double helix structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
