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by pythonwutang 2556 days ago
This focuses on IQ and memory but doesn’t it also impact creativity?

I’d be interested in seeing studies about marijuana’s impact on the brain’s creative abilities to contrast with this.

Because the devil’s advocate in me thinks “We have enough high IQ people in this world and not enough high creativity people.”

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I would be interested in this as well, but how do you measure creativity? Data on long-term effects of marijuana is rare to come by and that's when we are looking at a clear metric like IQ.
There are a couple tests available that measure divergent thinking, which is a part of creativity, but I’m not aware of any others.

There certainly is an abundance of anecdotal evidence that marijuana boosts creativity from artists and musicians.