Intelligent people use more drugs

[Nico1e]

'Intelligent' people might be more computer-literate people. They might have a greater likelihood of using the internet to research all the various drugs that exist, and they can order some of them online. People who don't use the internet very much won't learn about any drugs except for the ones that 1. they learn about in public school health class or 2. the street drugs that people are using around them or 3. the ones mentioned on television. So people using the internet would use a wider variety of esoteric drugs.

Once again, it's a factor that isn't directly connected with 'intelligence.' If less-intelligent people had some help researching and learning about all the various drugs that existed out there, and how to get them, they might have just as much of a tendency, or more, to go try them.

[DividedsGhost]

My thought progression on this thread:

[rat1]

Pot is actually healthy for the brain when used in moderation.

[Atlast]

Pot is actually healthy for the brain when used in moderation.

That would seem to be the case for many drugs. It's kind of irrefutably ignorant of the US government to withhold pot in particular for public scientific scrutiny for this long and still declare it on a legal level with other remarkable drugs. I suppose we can thank Reagan for that and an apathetic populace for that...

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lmfao didn't mean to divert discussion like that xP. I'm sure we've all gone through the 'intelligence debate' and settled somewhere or another, I only hoped my response to be an innocent gesture

[strrrng]

all I'm saying is that if we are able to make use of the different lens we see through during or after the drug-altered state while remaining physically safe, then yes, drugs DO help us in our lives.

sorry, but physical safety doesn't define the quality of such heightened perceptual experiences. when you're operating in that state, things like how much money it may have cost you, what you're going to do with your life after, etc. are all basically redundant; I would summarize the kind of awareness it produces as 'everything is everything.' also, even bad drug experiences can have positive outcomes; it comes down to the person.

anyway this ties back to the issue of people decrying drugs as toxins that only degrade and distort one's mind. the people who say this are the ones who haven't done them. they reveal the caliber of their minds in making such sweeping judgments based on nothing more than what they've heard and read, like animals huddling together because they all think they hear wolves in the distance. and criticizing a person's choices in this regard is even more basely ignorant.

I've had good and bad experiences with drugs, but ultimately I don't regret anything, because it just comes back to the process of understanding and exploration for me. I accept that there are people who don't want/need that, which is why I expect them to do the same for those of us who do.

as for the ways in which drugs do affect one's mind, it's never as significant as people make it out to be. stuff like LSD and shrooms won't so much show you devils in golden caskets as just intensify your psycho-sensory connection to nature, and leave you with much to reflect on for some weeks' time. weed stimulates spatial thinking, and the list goes on. you just have to know yourself and the drug.