Fact or Fiction? Dose smoking or drugs enhance your creativity? (the green herb)?

Question

They say Jimi Hendrix used to soak his bandana with acid and tied it to a cut on his forehead, while he played.....he ended up being concidered one of the greatest guitar plays and artists of the past century....

Jackson Pollick (visual artist) smoked cigarettes, in my opion it added character. Cigarette are known to be a relaxant,...jacksons' art was far from emotionally relaxed....

What about that myth that everyone has heard?....Does smoking the wacky green tobacy enhance your creativity?

Answer 1

Tobacco, as far as I know, has no real positive effects until you're already addicted.

However hallucinogenic drugs do enhance your creativity.

One thing to be careful of, though, is that what you buy on the street isn't just the drug. It's everything else that was cut in to make it heavier, and you don't know the potency or the dose.

Seriously, growing your own weed is safer. You can make harder stuff on your own but it also has the potential of killing you instantly.

Answer 2

Every study on this says, emphatically: NO! It has and will be repeted endlessly that is does, but creative people will be creative, and no matter how much dope or alcohol you consume, someone who is not creative is just not creative. Acid might have been some inspiration, because it brought to your mind things that were burried, and seemed like creativity. A lot of people thought they were artists in that era that weren't. And the art made famous in that era often was inspired by fabric. Other art came out on posters that used black lights, and mostly lacked any imagination.
The art of concerts came out of that era, but has gone so far from where it started -colored dish soap swirled around on an overhead projector- it's no longer recognizable.
Psychedelic art came out of the minds of people who were creative, though they may have been seriously addicted to drugs, or alcohol, like Pollick was, in addition to being creative. Most people who lived through that era recognized that drugs and alcohol actually delayed or ended the careers of many artists, like Jimi Hendrix, who had great careers ahead of them. Artists who didn't die, but instead, recovered, learned and now admit that the drugs and alcohol actually slowed them down.
I believe the bandana soaked in acid story is specious. If you know anything about the drug, you know how tiny the dose actually is. Drugs and alcohol did end his life. Much to the disappointment of the rest of us who thoroughly loved his talent.
Jackson Pollick, a raging alcoholic, died at the wheel of his car, drunk. His friends and bennefactors warned him often that his work was suffering from the alcohol. His only good work happened when he was sober. By the way, tobacco is a stimulant, not a relaxant -check your chemistry. What made Pollick's work great was his imagination, not tobacco and not alcohol.

Answer 3

Some people seem to think drugs help, but they really don't. Drugs make you careless; you will make mistakes.
Within my school (myself included) all the people that have gotten into Art shows are the good students who simply pay close attention to their work and put time into it. There is no quick-fix to being creative...The only thing I can say is, make something that you find interesting...work something you like into your piece, whatever medium you may be working in....you can tell if someone had no idea what they wanted to do when starting a project.

---The ideas you come up with when you are stoned only seem cool to YOU.

(The druggies in our art department always make pieces that lack unity and pretty much looked like crap...)

*of The 8 people who got into scholastics art show, 5 of them are in the top 30 out of classes in the 640 to 720 range


...If that gives you a clue about the amount of drugs we do.

Answer 4

Ok first of all Jackson Pollock was an alcoholic. That more likely contributed to his drip technique than anything. The fact is... yes... a little herb can go a long way to allowing you to tap your creativity if you are having trouble finding your way. This does not mean it is necessary, by any means. I have found that a clear-headed look at things, can open up the creative floodgates a lot more easily than any drug.

Answer 5

It kind of does, kind of doesn't. It does affect your senses, and therefore can give you inspiration for your creativity. However, as a currently drug-free artist, I believe that drug induced creativity is fake inspiration, cause you aren't deriving it from true life, you are deriving it from some pills, a needle, a weed, or something else. If I ever were to be on drugs, I'd first vow to myself to never write, act or play the guitar while high, cause I'd want to remain true.

But yes, drugs can give you inspiration.

Answer 6

A lot of myths surrounding the benefits of psychedelic drugs and cigarettes have long since been dispelled through careful study and science.

While there are medical benefits to smoking Mary Jane, I don't know anything about it enhancing one's creativity.

I get more of a rush eating dark chocolate than I do doing drugs and smoking. :0)

Answer 7

Being an artist myself I'd say that the wacky stuff isn't all that wacky for creativity. A great big dose of emotion generally does it for me. A huge surge of sadness, anger, elation or whatever gets me seeing images in the things around me I never saw before. Without highs in emotion I don't have that twisted mind set that turns the ordinary into interesting scenes and images. So, whatever floats your boat for creativity...but for me it isn't wacky tobacky.

Answer 8

I think yes. And not just pot. Some of the greatest authors ever were alcoholics. Apparently, it doesn't hurt to be a little bit messed up in the head either. Many of those same creative geniuses had some form of mental disorder.

Answer 9

They just make you feel more creative. When the high wears off, what you've produced looks really dumb.

Answer 10

No!