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For me.. at least... hard to imagine writing code under that particular influence. Not exactly a bringer of good concentration and mental clarity.

I've known people who could do it, but nobody I know personally who is a really good developer is doing this? Esp during work hours? Seems counterproductive.

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Yeah. I’ve done some handy waves experiments for science (generally don’t like THC as a drug).

Watch a super intellectual YouTube video that’s at the bounds of my understanding (e.g. Leonard Susskind’s Stanford lectures on quantum physics).

While watching sober it’s intellectually stimulating and I really enjoy it.

While on THC I can’t grasp what he’s talking about and I attribute him to be just spouting bullshit that’s made up.

That convinced me that THC has a negative hit to cognitive function.

However it makes other things feel more awesome and “in flow”: food, music, bedroom activities.

THC affects people very differently in my experience. It can really run the gamut from sedative to stimulant to psychedelic depending on the person. I don't think the sativa-indica dichotomy can fully explain this because the same variety of effects can be seen from a single bowl or bag of edibles.

Yeah, for me, just not a chemical I enjoy, so. Clouds my thinking, which isn't unexpected, but also seems to do the opposite of what it does for other people: I get anxious and paranoid, and background body pain (I have a lot) becomes mentally attenuated. And yes, tried different strains, etc and it's legal here so I could have whatever I want whenever, but I really couldn't be bothered.

Idk it works for me. Cant really explain it. I get more excited sometimes, in the zone, makes the tedious parts bearable,think about solutions differently.

I don't do it often though. It's never like, I need to get high to code. Its usually like, I'm high and some interesting coding thing comes up.

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