Have any of you used psychoactive drugs to stimulate creativity in your work?

Question

Has anyone ued psychoactive drugs (cannabis, lsd, magic mushrooms, etc.) to stimulate creativity in composing music, art, or poems/short stories, etc....if so, were you able to use it for psychological analysis afterwards (or did nothing come out of it)?

i have no idea if it is, i was taught in high school bio and those anti-drug meetings that it was, my mistake if i'm wrong. the question still stands even if cannabis isn't a psychoactive drug.

Answer 1

I used some but only for recreational purposes, it surely improves creativity but the only problem is that you're unable to create while on it, you have to wait until the effect is fading.

Beware of these kind of things anyway, I nearly died from my last trip which was a bad one, you wouldn't like to know 1% of what I had in my mind all that time. Don't take it alone and even if you think you haven't any problem to solve in your own mind... Think about it twice!

Answer 2

Any substance that has an effect on ones mood, be it codeine in your pain pills or LSD has an action on your psyche, thus it is "psychoactive". The term is meant to be neither good or bad, it simply describes whether it has an effect or not. I suppose DARE teaches anything psychoactive must be bad, but DARE teaches extremely biased, often outright false information.

Yes. Drugs, particularly psychedelics (LSD, psilocin/psilocybin, DMT, etc.) produce imagery that can be be fascinating. Refer to psychedelic art (Google it) should there be any doubt. Much of the music found it's roots in the auditory hallucinations and effects they have as well. Other drugs, opium for instance, have been used by many people throughout history to produce dreams and visions from which poems and novels have been developed. Yeats, Coleridge to Burroughs, from Queen Victoria, Sigmund Freud to Thomas Edison....all have used drugs to stimulate states of mind they found to be rewarding in one way or another.

The above paragraph should not be taken as a blanket endorsement of drug use, as they are all as different in their effect, addictiveness, and safety as it is possible to imagine. Some, like marijuana and psilocin mushrooms can be considered absolutely safe, with NO deaths reported from the use of either. Such cannot be said for 99% of legal drugs. The greatest danger in their use is the arrest, conviction, and imprisonment in places where your life is on the line every day that you are there. When released, you will be denied student loans, jobs, careers requiring bondability, and many other things that prohibition advocates somehow consider to be in your best interest. They are of course, very, very, wrong. But that's life in America now that prohibition has become a source of revenue for both black-market entrepreneurs and prison contractors and law-enforcement personnel, as well as a convenient scapegoat for the poverty politicians cannot address without inconveniencing the wealthy with higher taxes.

Answer 3

No matter how many nutty books you've read that say cannabis is a psychoactive drug... IT'S NOT!

Answer 4

Where I work not one of those drugs is necessary.