WELCOME TO THE CREATIVE CLASS
HOW CANNABIS ENHANCES CREATIVITY
IMAGINE OUR CULTURE WITHOUT CANNABIS
50% of Songs on Spotify Gone
Remove most of the Rock and Roll, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Punk, Soul, R&B, Electronic Dance Music and even country Music.
25% of The Modern Art Museum Gone
A good portion of the modern art on the walls of our museums would be taken down.
75% of Comedies on Television Gone
Most of the comedies on television and in the movies would be missing.
CREATIVITY IS AN ESSENTIAL SKILL
Creativity is a competitive edge in both life and work. It defines us as individuals and gives us a sense of accomplishment in everything we do.
ENHANCED IMAGINATION
Cannabis creates an enhanced ability for imagination; chefs have reported how they can better imagine the taste of combinations of food during a high, and musicians describe an enhanced ability to imagine melodies played by various instruments.
HYPER
FOCUS
A fundamental effect of cannabis is hyper focus of attention and an intense perception of the here-and-now. You do not look at an object anymore under pragmatic aspects but start to explore its colors, surfaces, shades under a different perspective, like an artist or a scientist scrutinizing its nature.
EMPATHETIC UNDERSTANDING
Cannabis users often experience an enhancement of their empathic skills during a high, like a writer feeling they are better able to slip into another personality and to creatively write fiction involving the feelings of various characters.
PATTERN RECOGNITION
Cannabis users say it helps them make non-linear connections. It enhances their ability to extract similarities and draw conclusions about the relationships between seemingly unrelated concepts, objects, processes, or patterns.
THE SCIENCE BEHIND CANNABIS AND CREATIVITY
Cannabis’s ability to stimulate blood flow to the brain’s frontal lobe and allow neurons to fire in a more uninhibited way are just a few of the potential scientific explanations for the creative prowess that cannabis appears to bestow upon people. The frontal lobe is the base for creative, divergent thinking or thinking of multiple solutions to open-ended questions. This is also known as “thinking outside of the box.”
THE BEST CANNABIS STRAINS FOR CREATIVITY: CREATIVE FOCUS
Contrary to popular belief, the “lazy stoner” stereotype could not be farther from depicting what modern cannabis users are actually like. Think Steve Jobs, Carl Sagan, Maya Angelou. Of course, there are strains of Cannabis famous for inducing the type of couch-locking experience that helped inspire the infamous stereotype.