Does smoking weed actually make you more creative? One study tried to determine just that. And the results are causing a buzz.
There's a fuss between the actual fact of being more creative when you’re high, and just thinking you’re more creative when you’re high…
Have you ever been caught up feeling as if you are a needle in a haystack, just right out there like a sore thumb, high as balls and feel like someone's grilling your business? Well, it might not matter too much if you can manage to keep your cool.
Between the three scientists Christopher M. Barnes, Yu Tse Heng, and Kai Chi (Sam) Yam from the University of Washington and the National University of Singapore, they came together to do a group study on over 300 recruits to do testing surveys on whether cannabis improves your creativity or acts as a placebo.
They wanted to look into the workplace behaviors and performance to go through towards expanding knowledge on the effects. The study suggests that cannabis use may not actually enhance creativity, but rather increases users' perception of their own creative abilities.
Can Cannabis Make You More Creative?
The number of participants were broken into two groups, one group was told to start the activities within 15 minutes of smoking a joint or vaping while the other group was sent off to just begin the activities.
The first study was to give as many creative possibilities of using a brick and the second study was to imagine working in a consulting firm and getting hired to help a local music band increase revenue as well generating as many creative ideas as possible.
The high group had a tendency to be more happy, cheerful and thought more fondly about how creative their ideas were versus the non-high group that was not stated to have had similar feelings. The scientists had an external panel of research assistants and experts to evaluate the results and the findings turned out to be no difference. The study found:
You do you, there is no right way to get creative with cannabis
The assumption that marijuana boosts your creativity is not a myth but it’s not fully proven either. At the end of the studies, the scientists just knew to say that those who were high certainly thought their ideas were greater than they were, but who is to judge that. We’re all on our own wavelength, just make sure you’re proactive about your time, don’t always be a couch potato.
