New Study about Marijuana And The Creative/Programmer Set

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RELATED: 10 Pop Icons You Probably Didn’t Know Were Marijuana Fans According to the study, cannabis users may be more creative than non-users, but cannabis is not a creativity booster. Marijuana or CBD Could Help The researchers originally hypothesized cannabis indirectly increases creativity by making users feel more jovial. Ultimately, the results suggest that marijuana use has no effect on creativity but on the perception of one’s own creativity. Well, now there is a study out that throws could water on this premise. “Almost everyone thinks that cannabis makes them more creative. In both, participants who consumer marijuana believed their own ideas were more creative compared with the control participants while third-party raters did not.

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“The best way I could describe the effect of the marijuana and hashish is that it would make me relaxed and creative.” – Steve Jobs

It has been the mantra of the artistic/tech class that marijuana helps the creative juices flow.  From Paris in the 1920s to Silicon Valley in the 2000s, cannabis has had a special place. Stephen Jay Gould was a fan and Louis Armstrong called marijuana “an assistant and friend.”

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