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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I appreciate the thoughtful response.

It's a challenging conversation to have with nuance. I meant to emphasize that I was talking about people who had crossed the line from casual use to destructive use with my "addictive cycle" phrasing, and I agree that not all drug use is equal or bad.

My boyfriend is a regular pot user. He'll take a gummy once per week and go on hikes with his friends and come back on time for dinner all chipper. It's adorable and not remotely a problem.

That isn't to say that pot can't be a problem. The specific person I was channeling from my current harm reduction abstinence group IS someone who is there because pot is a problem for him. He's the most recent to have talked about how much easier it was to be creative when he's sober but it's a thing I've heard quite a few times in the past.

My boyfriend's brother is also someone who struggles to keep down a job and as far as I know pot is his drug of choice.

Conversely, my drug of choice is crystal meth and I've maintained my career, never having lost a job. I've even excelled at my job through my hardest using (thanks covid wfh!).

And nobody in their right mind would say that meth use of any kind is better than the hardest of pot use.

At the end of the day, I don't think that pot use harms creativity, but I don't think it helps it either. And the people who think they NEED pot to be creative I do think are potentially hurting themselves.