Just came across an interesting article: [quote name='""']A new study supports what that kid slouching in the back of math class with the black clothes and the copy of Das Kapital always claimed: smart people are more likely to do drugs. ScienceDaily reports that researchers followed about 8,000 Brits from ages 5 to 30. They tested their IQ twice during childhood — and at 16 and 30, they asked them if they'd used a variety of drugs in the last year. Men who had high IQs at 5 were 50% more likely than other men to use ecstasy or speed at 30. The effect was even bigger among women — high-IQ ladies were twice as likely to smoke weed and do coke as other women.[/QUOTE] You can read the full article here: http://www.jezebel.com/5859699/smart-women-smoke-more-weed--its-science Thoughts? Opinions?
I agree i'm pretty darn smart and i have a deep love for drugs mainly psychedelics. My theory is that smarter people get bored with reality and want to experience things that our regular reality can't provide.
[quote name='"Zr-01stamg"']I agree i'm pretty darn smart and i have a deep love for drugs mainly psychedelics. My theory is that smarter people get bored with reality and want to experience things that our regular reality can't provide.[/quote] Could be. I find myself getting bored with this mundane reality all too often. I'd much rather sit back, get high, and see where it takes me.
Mankind throughout history has always sought ways to expand their consciousness through various mind altering substances. It is only in the past 40 years or so that the government has drummed into people the idea that altering or expanding one's consciousness is inherently deviant and dangerous to the state and therefore must never be allowed. If people were allowed to experiment with drugs or other mind altering substances, they would see the illusory nature of our world. Sometimes you have to leave this world in order to see it for what it really is. Having said that, LSD will do this, but it can sometimes be violent and overwhelming. Marijuana is the safest way to do so. No wonder you have to be above average to want to take something that alters your consciousness. It's a natural defense system to purge the system of BS reality which proves itself to be the false world.
I think that is partially correct. Every person starts out as a little scientist willing to explore anything and everything. As that person learns results through observation they become more timid in the ways they explore. People of higher IQ may more readily see through the propaganda portion of drug control and seek out more evidence. With a serious lack of valid trustworthy data the only place to turn is experimentation. I have also seen many studies referencing how people of higher IQ are more subject to things like depression and anxiety. Again seeing through the distractions life tosses at you leaves you with a rather direct expectation and bleak outlook. To address this I suggest any of you brilliants out there practice non-linear thinking. Get your mind out of the constant cause and effect expectation bias we are programed to use. I don't want to tie up the whole post so I'll shut up there.
Doesn't surprise me...if we wanted to be smart, this relationship would be productively channeled through the positive use of marijuana and psychedelics...since society tries to tell us all drugs are the same, though, in that they are bad, this drive leads to a lot of use of other drugs that aren't so beneficial.
