Huh, What? Pot Doesn’t Enhance Creativity, Say Researchers
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iStock/Thinkstock(LEIDEN, Netherlands) — In addition to the pleasurable feeling attained from smoking marijuana, some users who possess artistic talents are convinced the drug enhances their creativity.
Lorenza Colzato and Mikael Kowal, psychologists at Leiden University in Holland, say they hate to burst anyone’s bubble but they believe that pot’s psychoactive ingredient THC is more of a creative inhibitor than anything else.
The researchers conducted experiments whereby participants did thinking tasks after smoking marijuana with a high THC content while others used the drug with low THC or took a placebo.
As it turned out, those who were very stoned performed far worse than the others on tests requiring them to come up with as many solutions to a problem as possible.
Colzato and Kowal believe the notion that creativity is improved after smoking a lot of pot is just an illusion.
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