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>If I use myself as example. I don't use any psychedelics because I'm completely satisfied with my level of creativity. As a result it's possible that we completely lack data on how psychedelics mingle with naturally high creativity.

Given that tons of (already very creative) musicians, painters, writers, etc have tried and used them, I really doubt this...

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You don't need to be creative to sing or play. You need to be creative to compose.

Do we actually know that many creative musicians, writers etc. were creative before using? I'd imagine it's really tricky to track down the starting dates of drug use. Or when someone started composing for that matter.

But yeah, that was just to illustrate the point anyhow. And the point is that people self select heavily on which drugs they use. So the user group of any drug is not representative sample.

Could you try them and let us know, instead of speculating what may or may not exist?

...and produce single anecdote. Boy I'm misunderstood here big time.

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