A new study on the effects of smoking marijuana and its relation to creativity has some interesting results.

The study consisted of 412 marijuana users (they couldn’t find 8 more?) and 309 non-users, and they attempted to answer the question: Does smoking marijuana make you more creative?

Emily LaFrance, the co-author of the study and graduate student at Washington State University, says she first became interested in the topic when she noticed that a lot of her favorite artists admit they smoke marijuana. “This cannabis use was commonly thought to have been a cause of the creative success of many artists,” she explains. “I began to wonder about this commonly held idea – are cannabis users really more creative than non-users?”

The study is called “Inspired by Mary Jane? Mechanisms underlying enhanced creativity in cannabis users” and was published in Consciousness and Cognition. It examined the participants over a variety of areas including psychological tests, and measuring creative works and achievements.

Some major points from the study include:

Cannabis users were more likely to be extroverted and open to new experiences.
Cannabis users reported higher levels of artistic creativity, but not a higher amount of creative achievements or completed works.
Cannabis users performed better on a convergent thinking test (which tests creative problem solving).
Overall, they did find that those who use marijuana are more creative than their counterparts who do not use it, but when they dug deeper they made a startling discovery.

When the scientists included the personality traits into the data, they realized that these traits on their own could determine whether a person is more open to using marijuana, as well as drive a tendency to be more creative.

“Cannabis users may be more creative than non-users,” LaFrance says, “but this is not because using cannabis has increased their creativity.” She goes on to explain that it’s the fact that marijuana users “are more open to experience than non-users, and this openness to experience is associated with both cannabis use, and heightened creativity.”

So there you have it: if you smoke pot you’re probably more creative than people who don’t… but it’s not necessarily the weed that’s got your creativity going. It was you all along!

Note: This study was conducted with all subjects being sober, meaning none of them were under the influence of marijuana during the test.
So.... Does it makes you more creative?

I feel weed is a placebo. You just assume it heightens your creativity. It never really affects it.

It makes you see thing's

that ain't there

It makes you misbehave
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Weed is rubbish. I tried smoking that stuff like six times, after smoking I felt more shy and anxious that I can't stay near people.
Weed is rubbish, I'll stick to alcohol.

RoyalBlak007:
It makes you see thing's

that ain't there

Hallucinations

jamariwolf:
Weed is rubbish. I tried smoking that stuff like six times, after smoking I felt more shy and anxious that I can't stay near people.
Weed is rubbish, I'll stick to alcohol.

if weed is rubbish...then Alcohol is Hell

mespusinglez:
if weed is rubbish...then Alcohol is Hell

different strokes for different folks. Weed Issa no no for moi.

jamariwolf:
different strokes for different folks. Weed Issa no no for moi.

Yeah indeed....
Weed Odour is NO NO preferably That of Alcohol

RoyalBlak007:
It makes you see thing's

that ain't there

wrong,.. it makes u see things that an ordinary human eye can't see...

And girls should take this under advisement; don't ever let a guy who just smoked weed have sex with u..

He will destroy your hole for u

internationalman:

wrong,.. it makes u see things that an ordinary human eye can't see...

Lies!!!!, you'll see nothing, at a heavy sound of slap, you'll get yourself and stop deceiving yourself with that say of "Seeing things"

internationalman:

And girls should take this under advisement; don't even let a guy who just smoked weed have sex with u..

He will destroy your hole for u

Ma Nigga

Babe, we Sabi, sabi!

if you like, mix pawpaw leaves, dry feces, weed, Sk, together and smoke..... confirm legit babe go still empty your scrotum with no stress.

donstan18:


Lies!!!!, you'll see nothing, at a heavy sound of slap, you'll get yourself and stop deceiving yourself with that say of "Seeing things"




Ma Nigga

Babe, we Sabi, sabi!

if you like, mix pawpaw leaves, dry feces, weed, Sk, together and smoke..... confirm legit babe go still empty your scrotum with no stress.

Don't know about other girls, but all the girls I have tried it with did one thing in common...

They ran out of the room b4 I could even cum forgetting to take their panties along with them.

Do u still need to see the panties as proof??

internationalman:

Don't know about other girls, but all the girls I have tried it with did one thing in common...

The ran out of the room b4 I could even cum forgetting to take their panties along with them.


Do u still need to see the panties as proof??

I hate lies, when discussing.

The first person to ever smoke Marijuana was a Chinese Emperor,He burned the plant because he liked the smell. Once he inhaled the smoke, he saw a bluejay bird. The bird told him to conquer the surrounding empires, and so he did.

HeyCorleone:
I feel weed is a placebo. You just assume it heightens your creativity. It never really affects it.

Seriously?, Have you taken a single draw of it before

14teenK:
The first person to ever smoke Marijuana was a Chinese Emperor,He burned the plant because he liked the smell. Once he inhaled the smoke, he saw a bluejay bird. The bird told him to conquer the surrounding empires, and so he did.

This is a very good one. Where did you draw this inspiration from? Nursery rhymes or weed itself?

bitchcrafts:
This is a very good one. Where did you draw this inspiration from? Nursery rhymes or weed itself?

weed itself

14teenK:
weed itself

.

It turned one guy in my neighbourhood into a mad person.the guy dropped out of 200 level after he started smoking week.he now roams about town aimlessly shirtless and in boxers smilling at nothing in particular.with the little money he gets from alms begging he uses it to consume weed even in his crazy state.maybe its a sort of inspiration sha.we nicknamed him kolo mental.

jamariwolf:
Weed is rubbish. I tried smoking that stuff like six times, after smoking I felt more shy and anxious that I can't stay near people.
Weed is rubbish, I'll stick to alcohol.

This is what happened to me too. First time i took it i was waiting for the creative genuis to burst out of me but i just ended up flooded with negative emotion. I dont know why people like it.

ask the weed wrapper iamjude

Llanthony401:


This is what happened to me too. First time i took it i was waiting for the creative genuis to burst out of me but i just ended up flooded with negative emotion. I dont know why people like it.

baffles me. Shiit just makes one paranoid