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Originally Posted by MattyC
My personal experience is that MJ helps to focus on one thing really well. I think this is why it's often referenced as a "creativity inducer", but it's really that it helps creative people get zoned-in on their stuff. For me, It's tough to sit over my drawing table for more than 30 minutes at a time. My back gets sore, I get distracted by other chores, my mind wanders into other issues, but if I smoke up first, I find myself spending 2-3 hours working without any other distractions. I find it the same playing music, it's easier to improvise and come up with new tunes when stoned because I can just focus on the guitar frets and access just my knowledge of how it all works without letting other things pull my focus away from it.
I can definitely see how it could help people with ADD or ADHD for activities, but for things like studying it would be detrimental due to the short-term memory loss. It can make reading mroe interesting because you get more immersed in the story, but it's terrible for retaining that information. For multi-tasking, it's awful.
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I definitely feel more creative with my own hobbies (music, writing) when I've used weed. At the risk of sounding cheesy, ideas make themselves more readily available and seem to flow naturally when there isn't a wall of mental stress and anxiety blocking them.