I certainly hope this offends nobody, but there is not quite more I enjoy doing than getting really high and heading out with my camera. I don't smoke pot to escape any sort of reality, but more to bring reality into better view, at least for myself. I think I'm able to "see" what's around me better and to be able to appreciate it for what it is and see more of a photograph in it, instead of walking by looking for the obvious, easy picture.
By no means am I a pot-head. I am a productive member of society that has responsibilities and handles them well; I just happen to enjoy, and appreciate, the effects of marijuana when a flame is taken to it and the smoke is inhaled into my lungs.....Anybody else?
Decades ago I read a study which was printed in Downbeat magazine, I think, and had to do with the positive effects of pot on creating jazz. When musicians were asked how pot affected their performances they usually extolled its ability to enhance their creativity and performance. However, when the same musicians listened to their colleagues perform, not knowing if they were high or not, they consistently rated the performances on pot less interesting, more derivative, repetitious and just plain sloppy when it came to execution. I think recreational marijuana is fine (and fun, if I remember correctly), and it may be interesting to take photos when high and then look at them straight, but I wouldn't bet on it enhancing photographic skill or vision.
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